My Friend Makes Fun Family Portraits!

I love art. Crazy, expressive, wild art. Our house is filled with folk art and comical pieces. We used to buy all sorts of paintings and sculptures in the days before Truman. Now we use that money to buy things like groceries and Timberland sandals and jeans that don’t hold up in the knees.

Through the wonder of Facebook, I was reunited with an old college sorority sister, Tina Mackin. It turns out she’s an artist (her Web site is www.SmackinArt.com) and her work is brilliant and colorful and completely fun. She copied me on a portrait of some friends she had painted and I knew I just had to have her make one of my family. The best part is that her original portraits are very affordable – ranging from $75 for one person to $250 for 10 people. She also makes prints mounted on mat board for $25.

I sent Tina the family portrait from our 2007 Christmas card, and then sent her a recent photo of Truman so she could super impose his face. Here is the result. Way cool!

(Photo of my portrait, by Tina Mackin, www.SmackinArt.com)