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Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:48:13 +0000

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By: Deborah Barlow

Deborah Barlow — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:49:23 +0000

This is a powerful drawing G. Thank you for posting it.

By: suburbanlife

suburbanlife — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:19:21 +0000

ybonesy – here’s to all of us with noses that don’t tilt enticingly; those with schnozzes! I have a nose more pronounced bump than Anyu’s. My parents tried to convince me to undergo cosmetic surgery in my teens to bring me closer to the beauty ideal, but I resisted, because all the older women in our families had schnozzes and were real characters and i wanted to be one of that illustrious group.
Anyu was called “pintyoke” which means sparrow. She was busy, energetic, persistent and everywhere – and determined. G

By: ybonesy

ybonesy — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:24:20 +0000

I’m glad I stopped back by today, because I don’t think your sketch of Anyu was up when I was here earlier in the week.

Really wonderful sketch. Such determination in her face. And I love her nose. I have a bump right about the same place she does, and I’d never ever get my nose surgically fixed. That’s my best feature.

She definitely didn’t look dead .

By: suburbanlife

suburbanlife — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:53:04 +0000

James – thanks for visiting and your kind comment.
as far as failing vision is concerned, as a kind friend has pointed out, “as one door closes, another opens…” It helps to consider the loss from that way. G

By: James Steerforth

James Steerforth — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:30:30 +0000

Great combination of drawing and memoir!

Sad to hear that your eyes have been failing you.

By: suburbanlife

suburbanlife — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:44:09 +0000

Chris – thanks for your kind, but self-deprecating comment. I have loved drawing all my life – looking at it, doing it – and now that my eyes have been failing I am trying more to use words as my tool for expression of ideas. How else to make sense of the world and experiences? G

By: Chris Miller

Chris Miller — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:16:17 +0000

The two sketches (written and chalk) are a perfect match!
(and I’m afraid that I envy your abilities in both)

Maybe you could show us the other family portraits you’ve done?

By: suburbanlife

suburbanlife — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:06:17 +0000

Nita – whose face do we know for a long time? Our Mother’s, and it changes profoundly as the years pass and life does something to alter the habitual expression one finds there. The eye colour fades, the forms morph with the tug of gravity. I am fortunate in having had this time to draw Anyu – she was always willing to model for me, gracious and uncritical about the quality of the drawings over the years. G

Will – thanks. I agree, sometimes the camera cannot see what the naked eye perceives from a long relationship. G

LFB – Anyu was a scamp, more and more so as she aged and she let her impulses rule her life without undue concern for others. I miss her predictable inpredictability which gave rise to many occasions for bemusement. G

Christine – it seems to stick in my memory that you have boy children, as i do. I wonder if my son will make me lunch and help me to rest when I pull a stunt like this on him – for who knows what whims will rule my doings if I reach that age. G

By: mariacristina

mariacristina — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:13:21 +0000

She has intense eyes, but they look sleepy too. You can see she has the fine bone structure of a beauty. Nice textured hair.

Reading your memories made me want a nice lunch and a nap. Talk about heaven! And to have a daughter make me the lunch, draw my portrait, and then tuck me in…. Wonderful reading, G.