This month I emailed a pic of myself to Karin Jurick of Different Strokes for Different Folks fame. She is an amazing "daily painter" who has a new image about every two or three weeks posted on her blog for artists anywhere to work on. It is really great to see how other people interpret the same image. I have challenged myself with her images in the past, but never posted them or emailed her to put them on her website because I was not very pleased with my attempts. This time, since I submitted my photograph to be painted, and in turn got another photograph of another artist in return, I feel obligated to try and make my attempt not only somewhat well done, but also get it in, because I am, (as I am sure other artists are too) scanning the beautiful portraits on her post. There are amazing artists out there!
So, thanks to Karin for organizing all of this, I love feeling like I am a part of an artist community!
10 comments:
Kudos for doing this and accepting the challenge! Job well done! I would like to see the one done of you on her web site. May you have a happy New Year. Keep your brushes wet! jjg
Hi Jena. Thanks for doing such a great portrait of me. I enjoyed doing your portrait very much. It was the first time I did a watercolor portrait. The link to my blog was left out of the DSFDF web page. It's http://gottahaveart.blogspot.com. Thanks so much! ~ Marianne Ginsberg, your anonymous subject
This is beautiful, Jena - great job!
Jena, great job on this portrait. Love the colors you chose. You have great shapes on the features. Really well drawn and painted. Ruth
wonderful portrait for DSFDF
Fantastic portrait for the DSFDF challenge. I like it's clean color and bold statement!
Hi Jena, beautiful portrait...love the colors!
I checked your blog and especially like your drawing of Loraine and also the dog portraits.
Great work, Jena. I like the energy and vibrancy here. Lovely!
Liz
This portrait is striking, I love it!
Loved your painting on the Different Strokes challenge. It really grew on me as I watched the actual photo morph into your painting. Keep up the good work in 2010!!
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