Caricature Express

I know. I know what I’m going to do.
At least I think I do.

When I’m stuck out in the hot sun
and color-sticks start sweating,
That’s when I’ll easily switch to
the Marker technique that I wrote
about yesterday. It will take care
of the problem.

And when I’m in an easier environment,
I’ll use the beautiful color sticks.

Unless I have some reason to do otherwise.

At least,
that’s what I Think
I’ll do.

Oh My Goodness. Does it ever end?

There’s so much going on with the Face Painters in Central Park
that I thought I’d get an edge by including Caricatures.
But there’s only one spot with any sort of shade,
and I’m not usually the one who gets it.
And it’s so unpleasant to try to keep those sweaty
color-sticks usable in the sun.

So I remembered the recent work I did for the M&M’s company.
Posted here on this blog 7/5/08. Bright Colors! Done with Markers.
Instead of the beautiful Color-Stick-Mixes that I usually use.
I decided to make regular Caricatures using Markers only when I’m in Central Park.

And that meant
New Samples.
Once again, back to the Drawing Broad.

Here’s what I made:

Good? Well, I was thrilled with them. Thinking of using them all the time now.
And before I even walked out of the store where they were being laminated,
I got a call from my friend, Subway. Another Caricature artist. And what’s he
talking about, but a new Color Scheme (with the Color Sticks that we usually use)
that he says is just fantastic. Start with the darks, a brownish and a pinkish,
then add the peach….And then,

I went online just messing around. Free time. Looking at pictures.
And I see a fabulous way to color eyeglasses with blue and green stripes of color sticks.
i could figure out how to do that with the Markers, but that gets me away
from the Simplicity that I wanted to use the Markers for.

It never ends. New ideas. New pictures. More choices.
I’m never finished. Maybe I’ll sleep when I’m dead?

To Hire this Artist:
(516) 579-4706
optidust@gmail.com

I stretched my boundaries for this one.
Usually working on Cardstock, this commission requested Foam-core board.
Larger. And aghk! A rush job. Had to be done overnight, and I find out that
prismacolor sticks are not going to work on the foam-core board!

I was told that this would be displayed at a wedding - and they wanted
an Oriental theme - and the color scheme-red. Okay. I’ll do something. Ummmmm.
This is what real Artwork is about. Each picture that’s another Challenge
brings the Artist up a notch. I bought red foam-core-board and drew the
picture with a Silver Sharpie:

Uh-oh. What if that wouldn’t be appropriate to display?

I decided to make it a surprise just for the insiders.
And I drew the following picture on the other side of the
same Foamcore board. It was white. I used the few colored
Chartpaks that I had here. Stores were not open, and there’s
no time to order supplies on-line for an Overnight Rush Job:

Whew. I met the deadline.
BTW, here’s the reference photo I was working from:

To Hire this Artist:
(516) 579-4706
optidust@gmail.com

I was teaching Acrylic Painting today.
I got to work early, so I drew a Caricature
from a magazine that I had in the car.

The picture came out fantastic!
It was based on a photo of a very angry man.
The first thing I drew was the Nose,
and I noticed how very narrow it was at the top.
And his eyebrows were pointing in toward the nose
and:

I ended up drawing a Star! Right between the eyes.

Gotta clear away some of the papers from here.
Hmmmm, what’s this recently finished sketchbook here.

I used to keep the litle green thing (4×4?) in my pocketbook.
I remember the day I drew this. I was out with family,
and this woman was in the restaurant. A normal woman. She
came already ‘exaggerated’ from the basic Mr. In-Between Face.
Nothing like being a Caricature Artist to Know that people really do
look wild. Normal people. And Nobody,
nobody really looks like Mr. In-Between. Or else we wouldn’t be able to tell who’s who.

Although I do prefer to exaggerate
to emphasize the real likeness,
these feelings were kicked off about this person because
she really did look like this.
This picture was not an exaggeration.
At least, I don’t think so.
What’s happening with my mind???