Caricature Express

Artists frequently draw each other.
It’s how we know each other, how we relate.
I recently drew 2 other Artists.

One picture of Ramanjit:

And Two pictures of Carlos Rubio:

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Hi ~ I’ll be working 2 big events this weekend.
Nothing unusual about that, but I’ve been sooooo into some detailed
Oil-Painted Caricatures today (that take like 10-hours to do each one).
Drawing 10 per hour is a different game.

To refocus, I did a few Quick Cacs here tonight. From miscellaneous
photos of strangers that I have around here. Well, to make it more
interesting for you, see if you can pick out the one of the famous
person. One of these Quick Cacs is based on David Bowie:

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Whew. I have been so intense lately.
With developing Oil-Painted Caricatures
and preparing my taxes
and even my new program for cleaning the house.
In addition to my usual work.

I really enjoyed this break.
Just had to simply draw a few faces
that are not ‘required’.
It was sooooo relaxing:

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It’s amazing. This project sat here for Over Ten Years, but it took less than half-an-hour to do. I just fixed this blanket this morning:

I had made this blanket back when I was in college. Didn’t have my own car back then, so when visitors came for one of the guys on the hall, I was ‘like a kid in a candy-store’ when Russ’s parents took me to a supermarket. I’d buy anything. One of the things I bought was some Ugly mustard-colored acrylic yarn and a crochet-hook. Came back and made this blanket with all sorts of scrap yarns - trying to make it prettier than dark-mustard-yellow.

Well, some of the yarns were less than desireable - the blanket soon started to have holes in it.

Do you know the difference between a store-bought-sweater and a hand-made-one? The warmth of this blanket was Special. So I was going to fix it with better yarn - when I got up to it.

That was over ten years ago. Busy days - it never got passed my to do list. Until this morning. A friend could use some Special warmth.

So I sat in front of the tv. With some light-lime-colored yarn (that’s the best I had here), and crocheted the holes together. It only took a half-an-hour.

Nothing is a big deal. You just have to decide to do it.

Desk finished. This is about as neat as it’s ever going to get.

I bought the desk and the 2 cabinets below it from Ikea. Put them together myself. It was actually very satisfying.