Caricature Express

Oh - the synchronicity of…..
How do you spell that?
Even though I tried to check at http://thesaurus.com/
(another word to s p e l l ),
I still have no idea.
Does spelling count?

Anyway, I was impressed with it today. Serendipity.
Because I had randomly opened a folder to find some of my Samples
to post here, and I came up with these pictures from a Corporate Event
where I had been asked to draw Black and White pictures.
I usually work in Color, but I was also hired to draw Black and White Caricatures at a University
tonight. This very night. It’s good for me to see them - as a Warm-Up for tonight’s event (which will be the Sam Gennaro Event - a yearly Celebration about Italians).

This is what I like to call Black and White Caricatures.
Still uses a bit of Color. But in this case, the Color makes the pictures get finished faster -
which is what these Clients were looking for - to get more faces drawn during the hours that we had arranged:

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(516) 579-4706
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Culling through the photos photos photos that I take here.
And I came upon these. Why did I take these?

I remember. Driving along Manhattan. What life is like from a city perspective.

I thought how much excellent Artwork there is
all around us. How they had an Artist working
at this store - creating This for us - while some people think they have to go to a museum or gallery to find Real art.

This is it. This is an Artist’s statement. Whether it be a Caricature Artist
or a ‘Real’ Artist or someone who makes Storefront Displays,
if the Artist is making a Statement,
creating something to express her interpretation, her response to what s/he sees (visual artist), then it is Art.

Want to be a Connoisseur of the Arts? Then you have to learn how to see. How to understand what a Real Artist is Doing.

I felt that this Artist was making a Statement about people’s separate hearts yearning for each other - something like that. It’s hard to put it into words because
it needed a picture. It needed This display.
I couldn’t just go right by without hearing the Artist’s lonely(?) voice.

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(516) 579-4706
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Line-work. Interpretation.

I was warming-up in the car before going in to a gig. Drew the following two pictures based on the same photo. Intrigued me that the same picture, which could be described as:

wide close-set eyes
big long nose
long chin
prominent cheeks long eye-lashes

could each look so different.

I hope I remember this when I look at MySelf in the mirror.

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

Tonight’s gig was interesting. My Agent sent me to a house that was down the block from the house where I grew up. Arrived a few minutes early, parked beside a house where I used to play with a little girl named Valerie.

and….. everything changes. It was just another house for me. Like having been sent Anywhere. Except traveling to get there was real easy.

Black/White Party. I arrived early and practiced a few in the car. it was fun because I was getting in to the Exaggerations just the right amount.

A good time was had by all.

To Hire this Artist:
(516) 579-4706
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Cleaning out my Office today. Not only is my Computer Desktop full of photos, but so is my Physically Tangible Desktop. And Floor. And Closet. And Walls. And Boxes. From the days before we had cellphones with cameras.

My Artwork has become easier and better since then. I remember how hard I worked, how I suffered to make these pictures. But I want to remember them. Because it was through the suffering that I developed the work I do today. To see them is like coaching myself. To remember the details I worked so hard to develop.

I’m going to post here some a few of those photos. Because I want to remember how I drew the Nose on that particular day:

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(516) 579-4706
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