Alexandra Tyng, Unveilings Moderator

David Draime · 02-07-2006, 01:54 PM

Alexandra, thanks SO much for sharing this. You are so fortunate to have saved all this early work (play). I absolutely love the haunted house/unhaunted house. Brilliant!

We have something in common: ...but in my imaginary world I was Paul McCartney...I eventually (when I was about 36) got over it.

Linda Brandon · 02-07-2006, 07:00 PM

I loved this, Alex, and thank you for posting this glimpse into your rich inner life. I don't for an instant believe any artist has truly matured and faced reality, though you, Alex, are very convincing, of course. Funny, isn't it, how we call ourselves "realists" when there is so much else going on in there.

Alexandra Tyng · 02-07-2006, 07:46 PM

So, David, we are long-lost siblings! Or maybe we used to be?

Linda, that is so true about realism--I never saw it quite like that before. I guess we're really superimposing our visions, or inner realities, on outer reality--if there is such a thing!

Chris Saper · 02-07-2006, 08:47 PM

This is a completely joyful introduction! I love them all, especially the first

Heidi Maiers · 02-07-2006, 10:11 PM

Yay, glad to have you as a moderator Alexandra! I wonder how many of us have held on to childhood drawings. It would be a real hoot to see some of them. Maybe some of your mothers have kept them. I think the earliest I still have are some pen and ink drawings from about the age of 12.

Alexandra Tyng · 02-08-2006, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Chris Saper

I love them all, especially the first

Oh, Chris! Heidi, too! I thought this was where I just posted an intro and I didn't expect to get much response.

There's something about little kids' drawings--so spontaneous--in a way it all goes downhill from there. A couple of months ago, a university in this area had an art exhibit called "Very Early Drawings." It was all artists' childhood drawings. My husband and I went specifically to see the work of a boy I used to babysit for who is now an artist, but we ended up loving the whole show. There were such imaginative drawings--you could tell each child's inner world was so unique in ways you couldn't possibly imagine. There were a couple of 3-D things, too, including a model of the Munsters' house, all handmade with incredibly detailed interior. (Yes, you guessed it, I spent a long time looking at that!)

Joy Thomas · 02-08-2006, 02:31 PM

Well, I finally got the nerve to venture out to other areas of the forum and decided to look into this during my lunch hour..

Thank you for a delightful post...I adore the drawing of the boy sleeping on the sofa (I mean I adore it!) that sort of vision is impressive at any age.

You should finish those books now...that would be spectacular!

Joy Thomas
www.portraitartist.com/thomas

Alexandra Tyng · 02-09-2006, 05:02 PM

Thanks, Joy! I don'tt know what came over me when I started to write this intro--just that I didn't want to say the same stuff I say over and over. About the sketch--it is funny how I look at my old drawings that I labored over and they look so stiff compared to this, which probably would have been a throwaway if it hadn't been in a sketchbook. Yeah, those books. . .it would be nice to have a couple of other lives to do everything we want to do.