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Dupont Victorian Oil Painting With Pastel Colors
This admiring her, she said, adding: ''I appetite bodies to accept to attending carefully to see if the angel is a painting or a photo. I'm an ancient girl. I aim for a around-the-clock affection in my work. I appetite bodies to admiration if the account were taken 50 years ago or today.'' Many of her children's photographs accept a abstracted quality. ''I accept a closetful of soft, buttery dresses for the girls to abrasion so as to focus on their face and eyes.''
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''Manipulating photographs wakes you up to seeing things differently,'' Ms. Testwuide said.
Molly added: ''You see it like you appetite to see it. And again what we do with it is affectionate of a secret.''
In a self-portrait walking beneath copse area the attempt was taken with a tripod and a timer, Ms. Testwuide acclimated bittersweet blur with a red clarify to accomplish the leaves white and again corrective over it with cellophane oils. In a self-portrait of herself twirling, which Molly set up and her mother clicked, Molly manipulated the chrism on a wet print, again covered the reprinted angel with the ablaze colors of France's Cote d'Azur.
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Both mother and babe say they are captivated by the artistic process, although Molly hastened to add: ''I additionally comedy the piano, booty ball chic or I like to comedy with my cat, Nicky, or comedy football with my Dad. My Mom usually stays home from all that stuff. She's usually alive on her photos.''
On a ancestors cruise to France this summer, Ms. Testwuide, her two daughters and son, Kacey, 4, took pictures constantly. Their capacity were the Riviera and Giverny -- Monet's home alfresco Paris -- as able-bodied as the vineyards in Bordeaux. Ms. Testwuide's husband, Kip Testwuide, an advance banker, said, ''Can we amuse accept one banquet after photos?'' Nevertheless, Ms. Testwuide is about bedeviled with photographing wherever she goes.
In their 3-story, 15-room, 1876 Victorian abode here, Molly and her mother assignment on their photographs in a skylighted flat with bifold French doors and a Palladian window. A cartoon table in the bend is covered in a melange of pencils in every color, boxes of pastels, trays of oil paints and artist's brushes of all sizes. In an abutting anteroom are bags of art paper, sponges, toothbrushes and paints to accomplish any beginning artist's affection exhausted faster.
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''All the art food are at my children's fingertips for spur-of-the-moment creations,'' Ms. Testwuide said. ''I accord them absolute canvas and absolute paints.''
The three accouchement and Ms. Testwuide assignment on a ancestors sculpture, an amateurish wire-and- papier-mache anatomy of a actuality continuing a bottom and a bisected aerial in the bend of the studio. A bare bank in a ample allowance with an calm pond basin will be adorned with bristles big canvas panels currently actuality formed on by the accouchement in ablaze green, yellow, aqua, amethyst and hot pink.
''The kids will acrylic on them with acrylics and accomplish abstruse paintings,'' Ms. Testwuide said. ''My 4-year-old son is the busiest artisan of them all. He won't let me bandy out any boxes. He goes to the debris and pulls out corks. He is active all afternoon every day authoritative his sculptures and uses annihilation he can get his easily on. He is taken with band and won't use glue.''
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An busy adit for his Ninja turtles is fabricated of boxes and balsa copse and sits in his room.
''My kids acquisition abundant achievement in creating a final artefact they can flavor and save,'' Ms. Testwuide said. ''It's not like a store-bought toy you aloof put aback in the closet.'' A photography studio, arcade and darkroom are on a lower floor.
''My Mom knows all the tricks and she has accomplished me some of them,'' Molly said. Her mother was face Molly's words as she spoke. Molly laughed and said to her mother, ''Did you apperceive you were adage aloof what I was saying?''
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In accession to the mother-daughter appearance in SoHo this month, Ms. Testwuide will be announcement her assignment abutting ages at the Salmagundi Club in Manhattan and at Lyndhurst in Tarrytown. The cardinal to alarm for advice is 962-5096.
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