this is the swap that i longed to see when i urged my family to have another portrait party. my mom (portrayed above) has an especially wonderful and difficult-to-predict drawing style. i was curious to see what would happen when she and christine (portrayed below) turned their pens on each other.
my brother, henry (portrayed above), has a long and proud history of ironic and experimental hairdos. they are always fun to draw. he captured me (below) on the first day of my attempt to grow a beard. the results of that experiment were too embarrassing to share.
my dad, "donaldo scrapaldo" (portrayed above), joined our portrait party a little late. christine was surprised when i admired the likeness that he captured of her (below). "really?!" she exclaimed. "yeah..." i said. it looks like an early r.crumb of my beautiful wife.
i'm just guessing here but this swap looks like dual self-portraits / portraits by chloe (above) and by morgan (below). i was tempted to post it a long time from now (for top secret reasons) but it's such a good idea that i had to spread it fast.
this portrait swap between my brother, henry (portrayed above), and my mom, lauren (portrayed below), reveals a couple of great tricks for making fast drawings look dynamite. both portraits were done in two minutes but every page of my mom's sketchbook is pre-painted and pre-collaged and my brother did all of his drawings with tempura paint. both tricks gave their portraits a painterly quality that blew us all away.
i am pleased to announce that kerstin klein is the winner of the portrait party scavenger hunt. kerstin was the runner-up in the first portrait party contest but, with an actual factual portrait party, she sniped the scavenger hunt from jennifer m. lee.
