Caricature Express

I was recently out in California. Had the opportunity to draw the owner of Deep Space Records.
dspacer.com
Keni was definitely a chance to use my new hat skills with the Hats!

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I while back, I was trying to list the
famous places I’ve drawn.
Mentioned things like Carnegie Hall,
Joey Adams’ last Birthday Party which included guests
Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and Ivanna Trump.
I drew at Ritchie Blackmore’s Party (Deep Purple), Sardi’s……
And I just remembered another one - Harry Winston.
I once worked a party for the people who work at
Harry Winston Diamond’s. I just wish I knew that
I’d want to separate out the pictures from those
parties (or even take pictures - in the early days
before we used cellphone-cameras, I usually didn’t bother to carry a camera.)

Okay. Yicchus.
People are people.
But it is exciting to get close to the Stars.

And here’s today’s picture.
I drew it while preparing for this weekend’s gigs.
Last night I drew at a 50-year-old’s Party
at Chateau Briand.
And tonight it’s a 1-year-old’s Party in Coney Island.

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Art - a struggle? Why? It can be fun.

An artist from Rochester, Bippy Boyer, recently helped me to draw a complicated hat.
He simplified it into 3 strokes. Voila! I’m happy. When you know the answers, it’s no more struggle:

So tonight I tested it out. I drew the following hats that I found by surfing the web:

Success. Another skill under my belt. Thank You, Bippy.

I’m just tired of looking at the same first msge here. So I’m posting something that I quickly drew in my car today. It was based on the woman who was in the car behind me. I like how I got her very dark eyelashes.

Yesterday I was driving through Canarsie on my way to Park Slope. Took a break next to a vacant lot that had this wall around it. I was inspired by the real graffiti there:

I tried to make sense out of it - Just what did this kid do? I decided that he squashed the drunken-styled letters together, and added ‘graffiti-stuff’. I wish I had some photos of the big graffiti productions here to show you. I tried to turn this graffiti study into a production-type image:

Good - especially the Wesley one. But it was too tedious to help me represent this attitude (when appropriate) at Caricature Parties. So I went back to the original reference, copied it, and tried to apply That:

Maybe I’m just making up stories, but I wonder if Grafitti might be ‘ghetto’-art. Crowded conditions, not enough supplies so they had to squash their letters together on the paper….