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While some have spent the pandemic bingeing on Netflix, learning to make sourdough bread or sharpening their green thumb, the Lawlor family has spent it blowing up balloons, hauling a giant stuffed frog into their home and being judged by fine art critics from around the world. It's all part of a contest the Regina family — husband Darrel, his wife Gail and their daughter Hannah — started with other members of their family from across the country. In the first round, each family had to research and select a few famous paintings, which they would then recreate themselves. The results did not disappoint. Darrel chose to recreate Belgian painter Jan Van Eyck's Portrait of a Man in a Turban. "It turned out pretty creepy, actually," he told CBC's The Afternoon Edition. "I kind of looked like the guy." Darrel Lawlor recreates Belgian painter Jan Van Eyck's painting Portrait of a Man in a Turban.(Submitted by Darrel Lawlor) Other recreatio