August 20: Karin Jurick, a voice from my past

Many years ago, maybe 6, maybe 5, I followed a blog by a woman named Karin Jurick.  She posted portraits (photos) once a week for all of us followers to paint.  We submitted our paintings to her via email and she posted them for all of us to study. It was a monumental effort on her part, very time consuming, but oh so wonderful for those of us struggling to learn the face.  I was so taken with her generosity that unbeknownst to her, I captured the names and emails of the participants and wrote them on the side asking them to take part in a huge thank you to her.  I sent everyone whose name I could find a copy of Karin's picture asking them to paint her, send me an email photo and I would post them all at once in a huge thank you to Karin.  All went well, until (you can see this coming), someone wrote Karin saying when should she send her the portrait she had painted.  The jig was up which was too bad but the project turned out wonderfully.  I'm wondering if I have any of those portrait posts still available.

What started this letter to all of you today?  Karin Jurick has started posting, blogging, once again and I'm hooked all over again.  She paints small:  4x6, maybe an 8x10 if she's feeling adventurous. She only uses flat brushes and look what she accomplishes.

I took a look at her blog and I'll be darned.  There is one of her final portrait posts.  She had all of us who had painted along with her send her a "selfie".  She then swapped/emailed us someone else's selfie.  We were told to paint the stranger (who was painting us) and return our painting via email.  I was sent a fabulous photo of what I termed the "hairdresser".  Wonderful colorful picture.  Alas, the hairdresser never got her act together by the deadline but Karin, wonderful manager, filled the blank spot by painting me!!  You'll have to guess which one.

Enjoy this sequence of paintings by other people.