annaswirls
Pointy?
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From Terry Rentzepis [thurman@alltenthumbs.com]
I got this email this morning. He asked if I would share it with you.
Poets,
I really like the poem that won! Wow! I still like "restoration" as a close second!
Both seem to capture elements that I wove into paint.
I started "Sophie's Tears", like I start all my works...with a blank canvas! I rarely use any sketches, or for that matter, any preconcieved ideas. I let the paint decide!
As Sophie developed, she became the little girl I so wanted. My wife was pregnant with our first child as I worked. Sophia was one of the names we had picked out...if the baby was a girl.
I will not speak much on the philosphical meanderings buried in the paint, there were none. I believe in the eyes as story tellers. I believe in unbelievable power of a still, captured moment.
When I finish a painting, I want the viewer to feel like they have intruded on a very private, emotional, exposed moment in my character's life.
As poets, you bring words to the emotion that just swim around my crazy mind.
I have the eyes of Sophie...you have the mouth.
I am amazed and humbled by all your efforts...thanks for letting me play!
t
p.s. As fate would have it, we had a boy! Once I heard him cry, I could not believe I ever wanted a girl. He is my world...and I love him more than I ever thought I had the ability to feel...not more than my wife, just diffirent.
I got this email this morning. He asked if I would share it with you.
Poets,
I really like the poem that won! Wow! I still like "restoration" as a close second!
Both seem to capture elements that I wove into paint.
I started "Sophie's Tears", like I start all my works...with a blank canvas! I rarely use any sketches, or for that matter, any preconcieved ideas. I let the paint decide!
As Sophie developed, she became the little girl I so wanted. My wife was pregnant with our first child as I worked. Sophia was one of the names we had picked out...if the baby was a girl.
I will not speak much on the philosphical meanderings buried in the paint, there were none. I believe in the eyes as story tellers. I believe in unbelievable power of a still, captured moment.
When I finish a painting, I want the viewer to feel like they have intruded on a very private, emotional, exposed moment in my character's life.
As poets, you bring words to the emotion that just swim around my crazy mind.
I have the eyes of Sophie...you have the mouth.
I am amazed and humbled by all your efforts...thanks for letting me play!
t
p.s. As fate would have it, we had a boy! Once I heard him cry, I could not believe I ever wanted a girl. He is my world...and I love him more than I ever thought I had the ability to feel...not more than my wife, just diffirent.
