I discovered Barbara Muir, the Canadian portrait artist, who was sketching friends and relatives online using Skype Video.

She enjoyed the unusual lighting and the fact that she was catching people in intimate places in their homes, such as their kitchens, bedrooms and offices, from which they made Skype calls.

She blogged about the experience. And then I blogged about her.

So then the Skype people hired her to do some sketches from a party at the International Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month in Las Vegas.

Muir's subjects were in Vegas, while Muir was in Toronto. What stays in Vegas shows up on Toronto and can be broadcast all over the blagosphere. (That's as in blog, not as in Illinois' controversial governor, "Blago.")

Now she's blogging about it at again at Barbara Paints.

Of the experience the Skype sketcher said: "This whole project would have been impossible without the wonders of Skype,and wouldn't have happened at all if it weren't for the blog..."

Here's a couple of her sketches.

She plans to show more in coming days.