Portraits

Comes a time when you get roped in to a portrait show....we just had one recently called "The Blunt Edge of Portraiture", as opposed to the cutting edge. Archibalds aside, this was a fun exhibition where 38 local Cairn's artists got together to produce portraits of other artists( names where drawn out of a hat) in any medium, A3 was the set size( lot's of people disregarded this) and an exhibition /party was held at The Pink Phoenix Gallery where 250+ people turned up to view the work. Prizes were the order of the night and Kristin Tennyson took out the Blunt Edge Award for her portrait of myself. Steve Lopes from Artist Profile Magazine chose her from the works for depicting a portrait with "guts and determination" and demonstrating a high level of energy.
I suppose I will have to post that pic soon, at the moment it isn't on this computer so you'll have to wait. For now you'll have to be content with the portrait I did of George Wagner(my great friend the line painter) and another one from my collection "Old Man" from an Italian student from the Friuli School in Spilimbergo. They are both men of Dutch ancestry and I was inspired!