Caricature Express

Some pictures I drew at a Restaurant on the Water out east:

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I’m happy to be able to post this picture. Back in February, I wrote that I want to post some of the pictures I drew so Quickly as per my client’s request. And I just got up to it. Here are some of the pictures I drew that night:

The Children were beautiful. They all had much fun at this Dance that the PTA had arranged.
Made me wonder about my own childhood. Were we as adorable? As vivacious? As happy? Yes - the answer is Yes. I was There when I was a kid.

But it’s hard to visualize what I really looked like. All I remember is how I felt. How I would have been surprised and self-conscious at such an event - not aware of what it was, not aware that I wanted it… But I went along, was led through my life, trained to become a teenager, then trained to become an adult. I remember being so impressed with my older brother. He was so cool.
So confident. Trained to become the cool, confident teenager that he later became.

And now I’m wondering if it was such a good idea. I know the adults try to make things easier for us. Try to encourage self-esteem. Try to show us how to handle the events that we will be finding when we’re older. But the personalities were so set - based on how we felt, based on what happened during those ‘training Dances’. So instead of naturally handling whatever came up when we were ‘of age’ - based on the more mature convictions that we would have had when we were ‘older’, our teen years (which then affected how we approached dating,
coupling up, marriage, our whole lives, actually),
Instead of handling whatever came up when we were old enough to handle it,
we ended up handling the things that came up based on how we fit in at the ‘training Dance’.
Is it good? Is it bad? It is what it is. Who was I? Who would I have been without this sort of care? Just something to ponder. As life goes on.

And on. Another School Dance. Another Graduation. Communion. Sweet 16. Bar Mitzvah. Office Party. Engagement Party. The beat goes on.

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Running. It’s the middle of the night. But I haven’t posted here in a while. So I’ll quickly put up just a few of the pictures that I drew at a recent 16. More to come another day….

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Lol - Small Paper, Dad wants to be in the picture with his two children….. Ummmm, on this small paper? Should I make them like the size of postage stamps? Quite limiting for the detail that I could do in the moment……
Or should I:

This is what happened. Made us all laugh.

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Oh to feel special. To have someone care. So often I see how regular people are considered so special - how they have others caring about them, fawning over them,
loving them.
It seems so simple, yet it’s so special. To get that. I see it all the time because I work at Parties. Where people are invited. For the good things in life.

Sometimes I feel remorseful - In my personal life, I do have people to love. But it’s not always smooth sailing. Or we’re not always intensely demonstrative. So being in these situations, seeing people’s personal relationships, sometimes at quite important milestones, caring for each other - If it’s one of those times when I’m not personally ‘walking on sunshine’, well….

BTW, the clients and guests that I draw are usually quite kind, appreciative, and caring for me too. But it’s different of course, since I only know them for a few minutes, a few hours at a time. Working with nice people, while quite valuable, isn’t the same as a personal relationship.

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