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| Artist Collins Okello’s portrait of President Uhuru Kenyatta. [Photo: Rushdie Oudia/Standard] |
When Spanish painter Pablo Picasso said there are painters who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into sun, he could as well have had Collins Omondi Okello in mind.
Armed with the right pencils, this 25-year-old artist and comedian drew a portrait of President Uhuru Kenyatta in his combat regalia. Jaduong’, as he is famously called in Kisumu, worked on the portrait for more than eight hours. And it was all worth it because the masterpiece that he produced would have given Leonardo da Vinci, the Mona Lisa artist, a run for his money.
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