Scavenger Hunt (A Portrait Party Contest)

the first portrait party contest went so well. i'm excited to offer another one.

i will trade portraits with whoever wins the following portrait party scavenger hunt.

contestants must complete a portrait swap with the following subjects:

a parent
a child
a sibling
a significant other
an old friend
a peer
a teacher
a hero
a stranger
an enemy

here are the details:

1. a portrait swap means that the contestant draws a subject and the subject draws the contestant. swaps won't be counted until BOTH portraits are submitted to the site. click here to share your portraits.

2. to be counted towards the scavenger hunt, be sure to include a sentence or two that explains who the subject is: a parent, a child, a sibling, et cetera.

3. i will trade portraits with the first person to complete all ten swaps. to take full advantage of the upcoming holidays, the deadline for this contest will be January 1, 2008. if no one completes all ten swaps, i will trade portraits with the person who collects the most swaps before the deadline.

4. when the winner is announced, i will contact you about trading portraits. when our swap is complete, i will frame my portrait of you (like this) and mail it to your favorite address.

if you have questions, just let me know.

doug clarke & devon

doug, also known as liquidmethod (portrayed above), and his friend, devon (below), used colored pencils and computer paint for their portrait swap. i like the fact that both mediums capture personality and likeness so well. it argues the point that art is more about how we see than how we draw.

christine castro & rama hughes

christine (portrayed above) got this hat a few weeks ago. ever since she put it on, i've been aching to draw her in it. when we finally had the time this weekend, she returned the favor. i can't help but laugh when i look at her portrait of me. in my hat (below).

andy warhol & david hockney

two of my favorite artists! i can always count on andy (portrayed above) and david (portrayed below) to help me settle down after a long, long week.

it's worth mentioning that andy's portrait of david hockney (above) is part of a series of society portraits that many regarded as the moment that andy warhol "sold out." what his contemporaries didn't understand is that andy, always the business man, had duped the rich and famous in funding one of his masterpieces. anyone could commission a portrait but there were two inflexible rules: there would only be two prints and the size was not negotiable. obsessed with time capsules, andy conceived this project not as a series of portraits but as a single portrait of an era. the sizes were fixed so that, in the far future, all the portraits could fit easily into a grid. you see why i enjoy the man so much? who else imagined museums of the year 3000?

jon huck & jessika

jon (portrayed with green eyebrows above) continues his quest to draw everyone in the world. his partner this time is jessika (below).

rama hughes & jeannette langmead

sorry it's been so long between posts, folks. i was buried under a lot of work. happily, i can start the week off right with this handsome portrait of yours truly (above) by the winner of the first portrait party contest, jeannette (portrayed below).

this painting of jeannette is her prize for doing the most portrait swaps way back in august. the actual portrait is on its way to her new home in japan.

tony fader & jordan vogt-roberts

thanks to jon wilcox who had the presence of mind to rescue this portrait party from the recycling bin.