Caricature Express

What’s an Artist to do ~
Drawing for hours, surrounded by people, and this guy sits down and
says “Draw me with lots of hair.”
What’s an Artist to do ~ ~

Like it isn’t hard enough to get a good likeness, one after another after another, person after person after person, without them telling you not to draw whatever it is that you see.

So I just draw My Response to his request
instead of ‘following orders’. A Caricature Artist
has to see and interpret more than just shapes.

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I don’t know what’s with me these days ~
I used to quietly take things like this, and just appreciate, just feel oh good ~

But now I feel like posting them ~ Like letting you know how kind some of my clients are ~

The client who handed me this lovely oh so nice to get it I feel like such a blessed woman
along with a niiiice tip
and a Whole Cake……. Well, my heart happies up to remember him
I covered up the name he signed to protect his privacy

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(516) 579-4706
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I’ll frequently have people ask me - “Sooo, what you do is….
to take one feature and make it real big……”

“Yes, yes”, I mindlessly say ~ because I’m busy drawing and I can’t really interrupt my experience to start teaching and explaining ~ or else I wouldn’t be doing it anymore. I would be talking instead.

When I’m really in my game, when I’m really ‘in the zone’, I’m imitating the expression that I’m seeing with my own face. I’m feeling it. So I know what the different ‘parts’ are doing. I might be ‘dancing with the long curly hair’. Or scrunching up my nose. Or or puppy-dogging my eyes. Or nervously looking around (I don’t like when my subject does that ~ It doesn’t feel good for me to have to imitate it) ~ that sort of thing. And this is imposed upon the shapes that initially Wow me as the person approaches. My first impression of what the person looks like.

Here are some simple pictures that I drew at a child’s party. I’ll try to remember my main impression of what I saw:

It was the narrow triangle on the bottom of the face
which repeated the shape of the smiling mouth ~
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Oooh ~ I felt scared to do this one ~
The girl’s mother told me how they’re both professional models
because she’s so pretty and all…….
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Smooth sleek hair ~
‘Tut-tut-now’ lips
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Aaaah ! that debonair glance ~ Those luscious lips …………..
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I wish I could touch that haircut
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wide-eyes, led around as a little girl ~
reminded me of myself when I was little and
didn’t have a clue as to what was going on
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those teeeth.
not aware of that suggestive look in his young eyes.
Boys.
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(516) 579-4706
optidust@gmail.com

Oh boy ~ I really gotta get into Digital Caricatures. Here’s a picture, originally drawn at a Party, which I scanned into PhotoShop and played with the Liquify button.
I can imagine spending hours (weeks? years?) just liquifying everything if I was a kid. This is fun.

I recently put the Art Studio app onto my iphone. At least that’s a step towards drawing digitally at Parties. If I like it, ummmm, perhaps I’ll get an ipad. And then. And then..

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(516) 579-4706
optidust@gmail.com

Ahhh, I’ve enjoyed it for a while, and finally put my special Artist’s jacket into a Charity box at a Walgreens on Route 105. On the way between my house and my gym.

Sooooo, if you’re interested in how Special Used Clothing can be,
the hand-painted Starter Jacket that I showed in my post of
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
is now
out there in the World ~ ~ ~

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(516) 579-4706
optidust@gmail.com