Toronto Skype sketcher enjoys 'Oprah halo effect'
By
Howard Wolinsky on July 2, 2009 in Business, In the news.
I've featured Canadian portrait artist Barbara Muir a couple times on this blog.
Her work caught on big time after Oprah Winfrey recently featured Barbara in her program, "Where the Skype are you?"
Barbara drew a Skype sketch of the talk show queen herself.
Now the artist's story is being told in Canada, including an interview on Toronto's CityNews. Barbara said she gets five to 10 calls a day from people who want to be drawn by the Skype sketcher.
CityNews reporter Jee-Yun Lee describes how she herself is using Skype from Toronto to share images of her new baby with her in-laws in Vancouver. "Oh what technology can do," she wrote in her blog. Indeed.



