Alexandra Tyng, Unveilings Moderator

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.