Caricature Express

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Hi! I haven’t been to my blog for a while, but I sure have been thinking of you all. I feel like I’ve been drawing the whole world during this time - Just took another Thousand (that’s not an exaggeration) photos off my camera. Only have time to show a few of them just now:

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Well, I worked this Party last Autumn, but I haven’t shown you the photos yet.
I have thousands of them sitting here on my desktop.
I thought this might be fun to post today.

It was a Halloween Party in which everyone was to dress ‘cross-gender’. Much fun.
The people were so kind - it was fine to see how they played.
But actually, it put me, the Artist, into a cunundrum - Should I draw men looking feminine? Should I draw women looking masculine? Or should I just draw the male costume on a face that looks feminine if it’s really a woman underneath, sort of thing. And it was also difficult because they were already acting out - already trying to caricature themselves through their outrageous activity. Whenever that happens, it confuses the real Caricature that I would see. For example, someone with a small mouth might put on lipstick and open his mouth real wide - If I draw him with a wide mouth, it doesn’t look like him. But that’s what I’m seeing - that’s what he’s flashing at me.

Luckily I just like to be with people. The good thing about Real Artwork (my job) is that I can’t Know the answers before I draw them. Always. (An ‘artist’ who does that is just a ‘crank’).

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Here are some more pictures from the event that I started showing here
on December 31, 2009. I draw them so quickly at events - give them away
of course. I love when I get a chance to go through my photos - to see what I’ve drawn.
Yeah - That’s goooooood.

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This one I did
standing up.
With limited old dried out markers.
a Quick Cac.

Actually, I was just trying to quickly try out the new Walk-Around Drawing Board that I just designed - Always trying to perfect’ my materials - make them as comfortable as possible. So I just grabbed any ol’ markers that were laying around here.

I am much more comfortable - yes, things just keep getting better and better.
But I still don’t fuss carefully over a picture done standing. It just doesn’t feel
the same as drawing while sitting. Just like neither of those approaches feel the
same as drawing vertically on an easel.

Walk-around is fine for Party Entertainment.
Even though I still prefer sitting for the Artwork.
Parties each have their own personality, and the
Entertainer has to do what the Party needs.

It’s all good.

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(516) 579-4706
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