Caricature Express

Running around as usual. Today I took some time to relax in the midst of running my errands. I just called some friends on the phone from a parking lot.

While I was chatting, I freely drew some pictures. They were litl things - done on snips of paper. The first one here is loosely based on a litl girl that I drew at yesterday’s party. And the second one is a woman who I saw talking in front of the store where I was parked. Wantagh, NY:

Oh my goodness. I wanted to take the new pictures off my phone, so
I checked my computer’s desktop to make room. And, oh my goodness.
I found hundreds of pictures that I still haven’t posted from the
last time I took photos off my phone.

So here are a few more of them:

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Gotta be cool. Relax. Get hip Get on my track’s Take a back seat, hitch-hike And take a long ride on my motor bike Until I’m ready Crazy little thing called love ……………… lyrics by Queen

lalalalala……

Okay. Okay. I couldn’t focus on my work (I really should
go vacuum the car). But I couldn’t just post the lovely writing
that I used to study. Not without also posting the Graffiti Calligraphy
that I’m just as likely to use on my Caricatures these days.

So I wrote a word with my Bubbly Graffiti:

And I wrote a word with my “Down and Dirty Graffiti”,
which I designed from studying the unedited Real Stuff:

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I usually presign my papers before I go to a party.
Since people pay me by the hour, I try to do as much as
possible before I’m ‘on their clock’. So in my free time,
I’ll presign my papers, I’ll put them into the mats,
things like that.

They’ll frequently be cartoony signatures. Quick happy
playful things. But I just mentioned Pictorial Calligraphy
in this blog this morning. And I came across this
little scrap of paper when I opened my desk drawer
this evening. It’s a practice paper I made
when I was seriously studying Chauncery Cursive
several years ago:

Remembering. Old dreams of Fine Art. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

So when I started presigning papers for this week’s
gigs (I’ll be drawing M&M people for the M&M Company
on Tuesday, and I have two parties on
Saturday - a 13-year-old Birthday and a Graduation,
and I’m expecting the deposit to arrive for
a 10-year-old’s Birthday for Friday…. That’s about 200 papers.
When you sign them all at once like this, you really see how
presigning saves the customer from paying extra.
It only looks like a partial second to sign a paper. But
when you do all 200 of them at once takes a really countable chunk of time.)

So Like I say, I figured I’d best to presign a whole
lotta papers. Chauncery Cursive seemed too precise
to jump right into just now. But I do Curly Writing
in my day-to-day world. That’s a lot
like Pictorial Calligraphy…..

Here’s some of the Signatures I made. Each one is like
a piece of Artwork. They’re not my ‘real official signature’,
but they ‘claim’ my Pictures:

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