Paintings by Anastasia: Comments

Visitor Statistics I get about 1,000 visitors a day.  The total number now exceeds 750,000.  Visitors come from all over, including each state in the USA, plus Australia, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, and iris lovers everywhere.  Many people sign my guestbook, and I love to answer my email.  See below, for some comments.  All this is very exciting!

Portland view

Related Sites

I would like to share some other sites you might enjoy visiting:

• Porterfield's Fine Art, which licenses my work and that of other fine artists. 
• MindPower, in Reedsport, Oregon. 
• CloudEight Stationery, who create wonderful stationery for the Internet. 
• Natasha's Gallery, a very good friend and emerging artist from Russia. 
• Wonderful World of Tom's Gardening
• David Joyce's Great Page of Irisis
• American Iris Society
• American Rose Society
• Schreiner's and Cooley's, world renowned iris growers here in Portland, Oregon. 
• Iris Test Garden of Jim and Janet Leifer, in St.  John, Washington.

Guestbook Entries

Many people who visited my site leave kind comments and encouragement in my guestbook.  I would like to share a small sample of the comments visitors have made in recent weeks. 

• I am a seventy-year-old man, single for past thirty years.  Live close to Los Angeles, and have corresponded with a lady in Canada for more than two years.  When I sent her a picture of your red roses on the stationery, she was so pleasantly surprised, she phoned me only to say how much she has fallen in love with me.  Didn't think it would be possible to fall in love again, especially at my age, but, with your paintings of roses, anything is possible.  Thank you.  Lady in question is traveling to ... this summer to meet me for the first time.  *** big smile *** Thank you, thank you, thank you.   (B.G.  California)
• I just love your paintings!!!!! They are soooooooooooooooooo beautiful!!!!!! You are sooo talented!!!!!!! Your work is awesome!!!!!!! One more thing I have to tell you I am only 11, but I write poetry and I love loking at paintings like yours!!!! I hope you write back to me  (J.  B.  11/23/00 Chicago, Illinois)
• Dear Anastasia I've been "surfing" the Internet for a few years now but this site of yours is still a definite favorite of mine! My best friends only get cards from your studio.....and I thank You! Thank you so very much for what you are giving us.  You are a special person specially because of the love for children! Kind regards  (J.  S.  11/18/00, Bloemfontein - Capital city of the Free State province - South Africa)
• I think your work is just great.  You are truly to be complimented.  Your stationary makes the e-mail so much more interesting and pleasing.  And FREE, that's a word you don't hear much today.  Please, keep up the good work and I believe your work is Blessed by God.  Thank you.   (R.S.L.  11/16/00 Arkansas)
• You have beautiful work.  I must say - as a writer who knows how difficult it is to capture in words what is felt in the heart - the various pictures of yours spoke volumes in term of the human heart and its capacity for appreciation and love  (G.P.G., 11/16/00 Temple City, California)
• I have only seen the screen saver paintings.  However, I felt as tho I was sitting at the water's edge with the little girl.  She was so lifelike!!  (D.S.  11/14/00 King City, Oregon)
• Beautiful site, very peaceful  (P.  11/11/00 Florida)
• I like flowers, and I work with flowers, and I also teach children to work with flowers You have more paint with flowers.I live in a small village with a lot of woods,and dunes  (D.D.G.  11/9/00 from Utrecht in the Netherlands)
• Deine seite ist einfach spitze  (S.G.  11/1/00 Berg)
• It is nice to see that there is an artistic revolution that has made it possible for people to display their talent on line.  You are a magnificent artist.   (M.P.  11/5/00 California)
• Incredible site ..thanks for you hard work it makes e-mail so much more fun with your dedication and your willingness to share ...thank you  (S.  10/30/00 Alabama)
• You do such healing work  (K.C.  10/27/00 Deerfield Beach, Florida)
• As all of people who have given of themselves......your's does give a texture rich and endearing...thank you.   (J.  10/27/00 Renton, Washington)
• Your paintings are truly magnificent - I am a rose and iris lover, and your feelings for these wonderful flowers come through on your canvas'.  Bless you, and thank you for the pleasure you have given me and many, many others.   (Y.J.  10/27/00 Howick, a small town outside Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu Natal in South Africa)
• As a high school art teacher, I love your paintings and hope to show them to my students to inspire them to find things and situations here at home to draw and paint.  The things/places/situations here are just as beautiful as what you have found at your home.  I love your work.   (A.M.F.  10/25/00 Arkansas)
• I think your paintings are just great.  I visited your site after viewing a collection of yours on the CloudEight stationery site.  A calming tonic for a pressure packed day.  Thank you.   (J.C.  10/23/00 California)
• Thank you for the privilege of being able to down-load your beautiful pictures for my stationery.  They are really gorgeous, I especially like the roses and Irises, as these are my favorite flowers.   (P.  10/19/00 New Zealand)
• Thank you for your stationary.  It's really nice.  The girl splashing in the water is my favorite.  Innocent freedom seems to stand out in it.  A time of no worries caught in a moment...You're good at capturing the spirit behind the scene it seems.  I'll let others know about your site.  Thanx again.   (C.P.  10/19/00)
• hi, I´m a german girl an I´m very bad in english *smile* … ooh and your page is very nice you can very good paint.   (Anastasia 10/18/00)
• E mail is how I stay in contact with my family With what you offer I am sure we will enjoy our e-mail even more.  Thanks  (P.  10/18/00 Kentucky)
• I really love your homepage.  It is the kind that you like to stay for long time sending your beautiful postcards to everybody.  i already send your homepage to my friends and family.  You are more than talented; you have a hand that nobody else has.  Please keep doing more of that beautiful painting.  I hope I can save enough to buy one of your paintings but for now I am just going to keep visiting your homepage.  Tthanks  (M.C.  10/18/00 Florida)
• I like to drop in from time to time to look around and see what's new.  Everything is still beautiful as usual  (H.  10/14/00 Texas)
• Hola Señora Anastasia mi nombre es I ... y le escribo para felicitarla.  Ya que recibi una postal suya que me envio mi hermana y quede sorprendido con la belleza de su pintura.  Entonces visite su pagina y quede maravillado con su obra y no podia dejar de felicitarla.   (I.  10/13/00, Argentina)
• When I first saw your site I was just shocked.  These beautiful site and pictures … I feel you have a magical touch.  God bless you and all that you do, sincerely V ...  (V.E.  10/3/00 Rockhill, South Carolina)
• Your work is very impressive and I enjoyed browsing through it.  I usually look through a website before I allow my children, ages 6 - 9, to look at that website and I am pleased to say that I shall give my daughters my whole hearted approval to visit your website.  Thank you for having something that children can go to and view.  This world needs more caring individuals like you.   (P.G.Z.  10/3/00 Texas)
• Love your Paintings and look forward to seeing your name on each new e-mail.  Your paintings are so life like and are enjoyoyed by all my friends as well as they love receiving your art work.  I think you capture beauty at it's best.  Look forward to being on your list.  Sincerely E.L.   (E.L.  9/30/00 Ontario, Canada)
• Hola estimada señora Anastasia me e encontrado sin quererlo con su pagina de pintura y he quedado conmovida, la delicadeza la belleza de sus obras y lo que transmite cada gesto y expresion de sus personajes es asombroso.   (L.  9/29/00, San Luis, Argentina)
• I just love your paintings my favorittes are Bears.  I have a daughter who is 10 years old and she loved them aswell.   (M.F.9/25/00 Verdal, Norway)
• You r a great artist I wish I was like you.  My mum is also a great artist hope you write back to me because you r my hero!!  (M.  9/24/00 Australia Goldcoast)
• Your collection on Thundercloud, "Anastasia Collection" has blessed me so and every person that I have sent an email letter have been so complimentary.  I appreciate the gift that comes only from the ONE who created and blessed you.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart.   (N.D.  9/20/00 Kentucky)
• Your portraits are simply beautiful......My life long favorite past time is growing and collecting all types of roses......So you exquisite portraits of the roses, particularly touched me! Such a fine and God given talent you have! God bless you....and PLEASE keep them coming!  (S.W.  9/29/00 Ohio)
• Dear Anastasia... I'm sorry if I bothered you by asking this question...but I didn't know how to say that I want to know more about you...!!! I really like artists...and I like to draw a lot...by the way..how old are you?..I'm 14… please reply…  (L.S.  9/4/00)
• Hi..... my name is S…L… from Franklin High School here in Portland, Oregon.  The reason I am writing you is because I am very interested in your paintings.  My English teacher has required me to do a research paper that inspires us, and I came along to some of your paintings.  She would like us to do an interview about any person here in Portland that we are interesting in learning more about.  It would be a pleasure to learn more about your life and paintings.  If you could please e-mail me back and letting me know how you feel about me interviewing you I would be real thankful.  Thank you for taking time to read this... Sincerely, ….   (S.L.  9/3/00)
• I'm glad that you are meking very popular painthing's like i see in the front ot the page the are quite beautifull  (A.  10/30/00 Bulgaria State Asenovgrad)
• I have fallen in love with the school days stationery  (B.M.  10/28/00 Saint Simons Island, Georgia)
• Your paintings are great!!!!!!!! i like the roses most because they look so soft and natural...  (D.K.  10/25/00 Bandung)
• I especially love your flowers!  (Anastasia M.  10/24/00 Reading, Pensylvania)
• Love your site! Thank you so much for making such beauty available to the internet!  (I.T.  10/31/00, Norman, Oklahoma)
• well, i wrote and you hadn't responded so i thought u didn't want to talk anymore.....i get out of scool 2morrow!!!!!! i will scan and send the poster 2 u a.s.a.p.  .. byebyebyebye  (S.  9/1/00)