Jim playing the blues

This is a portrait of my online musician friend Jim who plays the ukulele. I made this mainly from memory. To capture his likeness, I looked at videos of Jim playing his uke. The setting here is all made up by me, as a lot of Jim's videos are just close ups of his face and his hands playing his uke. I asked him what chair he sits on when he plays his uke, and what he gave me was a written paragraph. From there I conjured this setting up. Jim plays lots of folk songs and sometimes blues, so I added the rug with a couple of holes, and that lamp in the foreground to evoke a mood that I associate with lots of old folk tunes and blues music.
You can find my signature as part of the items on the shelf in the painting.
I have linked a video of Jim playing the ukulele here.

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Joo has a master's degree in fine arts from the Royal Melbourne Institute and Technology. Before moving to Tasmania in 2017, she had taken part in exhibitions regularly in Singapore, where she was born. She paints in acrylics, gouache and water colours. She also loves drawing with dip pens, ink and colouring with colour pencils. Her favourite subject matter are people, who they are, what they do and the clothes they wear. Most of the people she paints are people she has met or known, and some of them are fictional. A lover of children picture book illustrations, Joo also enjoys writing her own stories and poems, which she then makes paintings for. Her style ranges from semi-realistic to quirky and whimsical.