Caricature Express

491 pictures on my phone! From several gigs. Let’s start tonight with just these:

Here are some from an Office Party in NYC:

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Don’t think I just look at Faces. It’s a Great Big World out there. I’m see so many things.

I’m interested in Calligraphy.
I’ve previously worked very seriously on
things like Ornamental Calligraphy(got to
get back to that beautiful stuff),
very curly writing (I still do that often),
chauncery cursive - that sort of stuff.
And it includes Graffitti. I do see that around.
Some of it is better than others.
I study both the good and the bad ones -
sometimes it’s useful to add ‘attitude’ to
my Caricatures.

Here are some photos that I took of Graffitti around NY.
Some were taken by standing on the street.
But others were taken from a moving train or a moving car.
It’s tricky. Because there’s a pause between
the time I press the button to take the photo
and the time that the camera
clicks.
So if the vehicle is moving, what I thought
I snapped a picture of is
gone.
I had to take ‘blind’ pictures.
If I thought a graffitti site was coming up,
I’d aim out the window
and press the button.
Had no idea of what I got
until I came home and put the pictures onto the Computer.
Surprise!

Following is a particularly special one.
I’ve been seeing it for years
on my way from the city. When I’m driving.
It’s on the street in L.I.City where I turn to get onto Route 495:

And here, from way in the bowels of the NY Subway
as the train speeds through a dark tunnel:

Lol - A friend saw these photos. He told me that
he noticed that I had an “SB” there, and that the
“SB” usually stands for “SkateBoarders”. I’m looking -
let me know if you see an “SB” in these photos?

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Well, it looks like there isn’t going to be any problem
about choosing which photos to post here
out of the 491 that I took with my phone.
Most of them came out too fuzzy to see anything.
But there are still plenty to show.

One of the girls looked exactly like a younger version
of the girl in the tv show iCarly! The quiet talent and
beauty that’s not even ‘famous’ is amazing.

Here they are:

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You’re probably not going to think much of these 3 pictures that I want to post today - so I can remember them. But they are pivotal.

I had grabbed some scrap paper and quickly drew against some bumpy furniture (hence the horrible line-quality) just so I could remember what I had just thought of. It’s The Answer to quicksketch 3/4-view Caricatures. It just bcame So Clear to me for that moment:

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Beautiful weather today. Nice easy day for me - Face Painting in Central Park. Then I came home to this! I knew I gave Mark Simon permission to use the Artwork that I sent to him OVER A YEAR AGO, but I didn’t know that I was going to see his fabulous book TODAY.

I found 3 of my pictures in it - between the pages of 114 and 117.
It’s so funny - He so protected MY copyright that even I couldn’t lift the
pictures from his book to put them here on my blog. And I’m too busy
to start looking through a year’s worth of pictures to find the originals
here.

Here’s some quotes telling about his book.

Quote: Facial Expressions - E-Book

I have been asked by artists around the world to sell a digital version of Facial Expressions that they can load onto their computers. Now it’s here.

Facial Expressions Companion E-Book Volume 3 contains over 1,000 all new images, including over 60 works of art.

The first Facial Expressions book has been a best-seller since it came out two years ago. There is no better photo reference book on the market.

Facial Expressions Models

This edition also features a great new gallery, Age Progression. Now you can see how a face ages from being a baby and growing into an adult.

Facial Expressions Age Progression

Galleries include:

Skull Gallery
Expressions Gallery
Age Progression Gallery
Phonemes Gallery
Hats & Headgear Gallery
Leaning Gallery
Pointing Gallery
Extreme Close-Up Gallery
Art Gallery
- UnQuote.

Happy Day. It’s Fun to be an Artist.