As often happens when winter comes and I taper off gigging my focus turns to art.
LuAnn Dunkinson turned me onto
Karin Jurick. Karin's an amazing painter and also runs a neat little thing called
Different Strokes From Different Folks where she posts challenges for her fellow artists and then displays the results. Cool hunh? So I joined the recent portrait challenge. 130 artists paired up so you painted the artist who was painting you.
Here's my guy,
Jerry Points:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD_npW0eH9GYAj2i4NfovNY8vXrBkbMkH6IRSorpsids7qxauqRYGVdCCirfIkPlPV-qUwkbInSs0cvXCJkNILfpJ310nhix7RXbTYnNRqFKphhpjOwfPfsSYfA2bp0xmUI_HJ8Q/s400/dsp54.jpg)
and my painting of him:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRFsus4Je7J3iEAXXAHiejCshbCJL-U6euVUC03yJFfthCiupr-2BZTFscrm3u92jU6eXvMpJtlgJe8GOVQ4mTreYK8W8QDPSFXEspgRWffIefTyqSsWkFumTUnbc9ctffzkCzfA/s400/09toomey.jpg)
We had three weeks and I spent about two hours on it LOL I think it shows but I'm still pretty happy with it. It's been a long long time since I did any painting at all so I'm really looking forward to doing more of these challenges! Fun!
My picture and Jerry's painting of me are
HERE