Caricature Express

Oooh. I just came across this picture. I wonder where the others are.
I had drawn it almost a year ago when an artist from Korea had visited NYC. I wanted to show Spring Lee around, so I took her to Michael Alan’s Draw-a-thon.

The draw-a-thon is pretty neat. Amorphic shapes, slowly undulating poses….. But Spring Lee wanted to stay in the slower room - with Loooong poses. So I had plenty of time to create this piiiiicture:

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I thought you might be interested to see the sort of stuff I draw just sitting around on my time off. Because I made up some Caricatures and Fashion Sketches tonight. Not really anybody, but I Was thinking of movies and a Studio piece that I’m working on:

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What a pleasant surprise to come up to the Studio this morning. On the nicely tiled floor, I saw remnants of last night’s meanderings - new Caricatures of the people that I posted on April 1st.

I remember doing that last night!

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This you gotta see. I tiled the floor in my studio/office this year. During a time when I was juggling about 3 CaricatureGigs per week And traveling to Las Vegas. So I had to keep using my studio/office - couldn’t just close the place down while I was ‘remodeling’.

My space is back to its usual busymess, but the renovation was amazing. I was climbing over stuff, finding things in piles behind piles, and gluing tiles in my spare time. What had happened was that I had hired a contractor to work along with me - we moved some of the furniture/file cabinets/etc aside, ripped out that section of carpet, moved the furniture back. Again. Again.
Then I went out, bought the supplies he told me to buy, and arranged for him to come back - to do the whole big job again. But this time laying Down tiles instead of pulling up icky carpet. Wellllllll, the contractor worked with me for three rows of tiles, and then said that the job was too hard. He left my studio office in disarray. Well, too hard or not, I have to function.

So I got me a friend, we moved furniture and put down tiles every chance we got, and the place is neat(er) now. As soon as I find them, I’ll show you photos of the new arrangement. Meanwhile, here’s the outrageous mess I had to function in. Life can be stressful. I’m glad I now learned to take time find peace through Spiritual Nourishment.

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I like these pictures.
Sometimes the Caricatures seem to take on a life of their own -
a quick picture of someone becoming a whole new character on the paper.

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