Caricature Express

I’m back !
You have no way of knowing this,
but all the previous dates in this blog are
out of whack. Looks like something happened
when I got things going on
My New Computer! Yay! A New Computer!
But it’s been about a Month since I’ve been able to post new stuff.

Let’s see now. What would I like to show?
Here’s some Caricature work that I was doing on my spare time.
From a photo.
The first picture - what a washout. Why bother, I thought.
So then I did picture #2. A nice plain Caricature.
That passes, but it’s not quite mambo baffo, if you know what I mean.
Just a picture of the man:

I decided that I’d like to pull out the mouth area,
so I made picture #3.
What could I have been thinking?!?

Picture #4 is getting better. But it’s kinda ugly:

Maybe I’m getting somewhere with picture #5.

But this isn’t a job; I’m just playing around.
I don’t feel like fussing anymore.
So here’s the easier exaggeration,
the standard one that would have been expected.
If I was in a hurry, I could have just done
something that looks Right.
But this is me - I try new things. :

Still deciding. Oils or Acrylics. Oils or Acrylics. I just finished another Painted Caricature:

I struggled through with this using Acrylics because I love the bright colors of Acrylics.
But the actual experience of using paints that dry so fast
causing me to keep putting globs of hard gunky paint in the rag
while I spend so much time nervously cleaning the brush
which pulls me away from the Painting Zone is it worth it? I e I even tried an Acrylic paint Slow-Drying-Gel this time. Made it
a litl better, but no where’s near as pleasant to work with as Oils.
I’m really an Oil Painter! Maybe they’ve come out with brighter Oil
Paints now - It is 2008 you know. Anyway, I struggled with this
picture until the very end. As I finished adding color to the white flowers,
my mood finally lifted. Every time I see this painting, I can’t help but smile.

And here’s a quick picture of the girl’s mother:

And a few more people that I drew at the last party where
I brought my regular camera:

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I’m so disappointed. Last week I worked on getting a data-transfer system onto my computer so I could at least see the crummy pictures I get from my cellphone.

I just tried it for my first time. But I couldn’t find the pictures on my computer. So I’m still working on that.

So what else do I have here? How about photos of some faces that I painted recently:

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Glad I got that out of my system. What ever happened to EXAGGERATION??? I still had time to draw in the studio here. Because tonight’s party starts at 8:30 pm - at Manor East in Massapequa (local for me). So I revisited those recent photos and played with some of the things I saw:

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(516) 579-4706
optidust@gmail.com