Convey My Love

June 30th, 2009

Ok - not too much is asked of an Artist.
Well, it’s fun, anyway.

This picture was commissioned by a real Romantic man
who asked me to make a Masterpiece to convey his feelings
to his Girlfriend for her 30th Birthday.
Not quite a simple task.

quote: Hello Alison:
I am counting on you, please!
30 years old, how important for one woman, I can not celebrate her birthday with her this year, so, please help me as “Joe Fox” to surprise “Kathrien Kelly” in the movie “you’ve got mail”, your masterpiece will represent my cake and flower, I can imagine that she will cry when see my sincere gift, thank you again, thank you! /endquote

Here’s what I came up with. Not too shabby, eh?
(I wish you could see the original - The colors are more subtle.
Magnificent. But they didn’t scan right.)

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Just Because

June 28th, 2009

That’s why I’m drawing just now.
Just because.

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April 21st, 2009

Bill O’Reilly

April 9th, 2009

Not a job. But just for practice, I decided to draw Bill O’Reilly Hula-Dancing.
Because I saw him on tv, and I was real impressed with his graceful hands.
And I could imagine him hula’ing ’still waters’ for ‘take it easy, now….’

I worked in Colored Pencil on Toned Paper.
Also changed the background to White in PhotoShop.
It’s most interesting, how I did not change any of the Colors on the 2 copies - It’s most interesting that the shirt looks so much duller on the white background:

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Dom DeLouise

March 26th, 2009

I recently made some more drawings for the East Coast Brown Derby
Restaurant. Some of their requests are more famous than others.
In this batch, I recognized Dom DeLouise.

They like the Caricatures to be rather tame - more like the old-style
Caricatures. So this is what I drew - along with the Reference Photos
that they provided for me:

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