Anna in Yakut dress

[Dianne Gardner]

Oh my Sergio!

Teach me to paint!!!



Dianne

[Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco]

Sergio, this is just amazing. It's a delight to the eyes
Ilaria

[Sergio Ostroverhy]

Originally Posted by Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco

It's a delight to the eyes
Ilaria

I prefer it to be a delight to the soul.
Loved your lobster!

[Sergio Ostroverhy]

Originally Posted by Dianne Gardner

Teach me to paint!!!



Dianne

You don't need to be taught...
Your mountain landscapes shows that you have everything a painter need to progress by yourself. (the arch)
Technical progression will come by itself with a lot of work
and other's advices can sometimes only harm...

[Sergio Ostroverhy]

Originally Posted by Chris Saper

This probably feels like a "miniature" to you.

.

Hello Chris!

Don't forget that even my monumental pieces were always made like miniatures...

PS: Always astonished by your productivity in portraits!

[Carlos Ygoa]

Sergio,

You would have given Roger van der Weyden a run for his money.
Absolutely impecable!
So if my calculations are correct, it must have taken you 1 week to do that eye?

Many congratulations!

[Garth Herrick]

Sergio,

I am beyond words in awe! This is an astonishingly wonderful portrait, and I will be surprised if it gets anything less than top PSOA honors in Philadelphia, next May! I'd love an opportunity to see this. Congratulations in advance!


Garth

[Allan Rahbek]

Sergio,
I like it, it's a very strong portrait and the textures are so rich. Could you tell a bit about the model? Are the Yakut's a Polar tribe?

[Sergio Ostroverhy]

Originally Posted by Allan Rahbek

Sergio,
I like it, it's a very strong portrait and the textures are so rich. Could you tell a bit about the model? Are the Yakut's a Polar tribe?

The idea with the texture was to diversify it to the minimum
so that the essence of the model would shine through the painting
without being disturbed "by" the painting itself...

So I would say, there was basically no work on the texture,
the effort was made on a kind of mystical presence of the person in front of you...

My brother, when he looked at it,
stayed with his mouth open for a few minutes... so surprising was the human (or inhuman) presence of Anna...

That picture of my brother glazing with his open mouth
(it's very hard to astonish him, he's a phlegmatic lawyer)
I think was the best recompense for me from the picture till now...
Although I believe that the "Yakut" roots of the model
(Yakutia is the land where all the shamans, mammoth bones and diamonds are of Siberia see the attachment of a typical yakut dress) must bring me more unexpected stuff...

As for the model...
Huh.
It's a whole story... Too long to talk about it.

[Alexandra Tyng]

Sergio,

You are one of the few artists who can use your meticulous rendering to capture life instead of freezing the life out of the person. I'm so impressed! Her staring eyes are compelling and a bit daunting, but I think it's their totally unexpected blue color that makes me want to find out more about her. The combinaton of expresion, facial features and costume seems somehow incongruous, as if she is an odd mixture of cultures. Very intriguing. I'd love to know a little bit about how you came to paint her.