People Painting People

A few weeks ago, a picture surfaced on Reddit of someone’s mom and their painting of an egret. As the post gathered over 75,000 upvotes, a user commented asking people to post pictures of them holding their paintings of the original picture. Someone did. More people came along and painted …
A few weeks ago, a picture surfaced on Reddit of someone’s mom and their painting of an egret. As the post gathered over 75,000 upvotes, a user commented asking people to post pictures of them holding their paintings of the original picture. Someone did. More people came along and painted the second picture, starting a chain.
Here is a series of pictures to show one of the chains of drawing. It all happened very fast– and this is a great example of people coming together over the internet to create something amazing. Soon enough, another person made an interactive family tree, showing all the paintings that have been drawn.
All paintings © their respective artists. The link to their Reddit posts can be found in the family tree.