The family gave me a software program called Paintshop Pro 8 for my birthday last week. They know how much I love computers and painting and this mixes both together. Yesterday I played around with using it to create a portrait. It also comes with an animation program which lets you make avi or gif animations. I saved pictures of the digital painting at different stages and used these to make an animation of how it developed. Here is the animation and portrait. I hope it plays like I expect it too. :0) It will play through once. If you want to see it again, just refresh the page to restart it.