Caricature Express

I drew at this Party a while back:

I feel so interested in the ramifications of what was going on.
I was told to set up in the lobby, so I didn’t really See it this time,
but I Think they were celebrating a baby/toddler’s time to get his HAIR COVERED.
One of the Rites of Passage for this group.

Yet I’ve also been to Parties for other people who celebrate
a baby/toddler’s time to get his HAIR CUT. One of Their Rites of Passage.

Both groups, thinking they’re doing something so Different.
Looks so similar to me.

Happy People. Dressed Up. Feeling Special.

Faces. Laughter. Things to Celebrate. Rules about Clothes.

with food. and decor. fancy dinners.
foot-patterns. music beats. and Surprises (that’s me!)

I feel glad if I can help them to be happy. At least for this little while.
They all seem the same from my point of view.
Even though they think they’re all different.

BTW, here are two more pictures that I drew at this Party. I like these Caricatures. I have to note, though, that I drew the Caricatures, but I did not do this Face-Painting. I do Face-Painting also, but mine doesn’t look anything like this. You can see mine at facepaintingexpress.blogspot.com

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Some people’s lives are so interesting. This group of people included adults who’d known my hosts since Grade-School - some even since Kindergarten! They’d kept in touch with one another. Followed their whole lives together. Everybody knowing ‘who they were back then’…. I wonder how that affects a person’s growth

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I’ll frequently have people ask me - “Sooo, what you do is….
to take one feature and make it real big……”

“Yes, yes”, I mindlessly say ~ because I’m busy drawing and I can’t really interrupt my experience to start teaching and explaining ~ or else I wouldn’t be doing it anymore. I would be talking instead.

When I’m really in my game, when I’m really ‘in the zone’, I’m imitating the expression that I’m seeing with my own face. I’m feeling it. So I know what the different ‘parts’ are doing. I might be ‘dancing with the long curly hair’. Or scrunching up my nose. Or or puppy-dogging my eyes. Or nervously looking around (I don’t like when my subject does that ~ It doesn’t feel good for me to have to imitate it) ~ that sort of thing. And this is imposed upon the shapes that initially Wow me as the person approaches. My first impression of what the person looks like.

Here are some simple pictures that I drew at a child’s party. I’ll try to remember my main impression of what I saw:

It was the narrow triangle on the bottom of the face
which repeated the shape of the smiling mouth ~
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Oooh ~ I felt scared to do this one ~
The girl’s mother told me how they’re both professional models
because she’s so pretty and all…….
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Smooth sleek hair ~
‘Tut-tut-now’ lips
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Aaaah ! that debonair glance ~ Those luscious lips …………..
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I wish I could touch that haircut
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wide-eyes, led around as a little girl ~
reminded me of myself when I was little and
didn’t have a clue as to what was going on
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those teeeth.
not aware of that suggestive look in his young eyes.
Boys.
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Decisions ~ It’s always about making decisions.
I feel like Artwork helps me to exercise the ability to make decisions.
Especially when working at Parties ~ where there’s no time to 2nd guess myself, no time to think it over (which really means Not making a decision yet).

At Parties. In the Studio. And even in the Office. Like now.

Which photo to post ~
the one in which the subject is animated, but the photo is blurry?
Or the one in which the subject is posing, but the photo is clearer?

I usually choose the clear photo. Because I figure that Your eyes (my Dear Viewers) wouldn’t feel good if they just looked through pages and pages of blurry photos. I want you to feel good.

But this time……… to illustrate what I’ve learned about making decisions…………

People frequently pose and smile as soon as I take out the camera. I’m not a professional photographer ~ I feel like it’s much easier to put my reaction into a Drawing than a photograph,
but sometimes
I manage to capture personality in a photo too.

Decisions ~ How to make Decisions ~ How to Represent Yourself on Your Blog ~ What to emphasize in a Drawing ~ When to snap the Photo ~

Decisions ~ What to Draw first ~ How to interact with my subject ~ Which Marker to use ~ Which Color ~

Decisions ~ Where to send your Children to School ~ What to wear to the meeting ~
Decisions ~ Who to spend time with ~ How to spend your money ~ What to say ~

whattobelieve~howtospendyourtime~whattoeat~religioneconomymarriagelovedisdainpoliticsvotingdoesanythingmakeadifferenceanywaytakingcareofagingrelatives

ornotwhotoinvitewhichcartobuyhowtospendmytimeexerciseorcleanthehouseoreatorrelax orvisitorprepareforworkdrawthestudiocaricatureansweremailsbecomeanagenthowto displaysamplesshouldipaintmatsorgotothepostofficeineedanewphoneordontibutcameraand ipodshouldilistentomyownmusic????

Whew ~ I’m so glad I have to produce approximately 10 good pictures per hour. It’s excellent training.

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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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