Louis I Kahn

[Alexandra Tyng]

Originally Posted by John Reidy

I began to paint from emotion and abandoned the photos. The result was that it doesn't look like the photo reference but rather more like the look that I recognized from my father. . . .
Did you experience anything like this in your painting of your father?

Sort of--though I didn't exactly abandon the photo references, the painting started looking different from them in a way I couldn't identify at the time, but looking back I guess I must have been putting my memories of my father into the face, and he seemed to be becoming more and more himself.

Thanks for sharing that, John, and thanks for your kind words of appreciation. It really was a great experience, especially since I haven't been out of the U.S. since I was 18 (I'm not sure how that happened)!