Caricature Express

Whew - I sure worked hard at this school.
A Guidance Counselor asked me to give the students
their choice - Did they want a tame Caricature or a
Wild Caricature.

Drawing fast, one of the Fun things about Party Caricature
is that we don’t know how the Artist would be affected.
It’s very difficult to

Either Come Up With Something Funny on command,

Or to get a likeness while toning down what you see which is creating that
likeness.

But there I was, asking the students which they wanted.
And handling high-school-type paperwork - checking off lists,
keeping counts….. Constantly interrupting my Zone,
the Artist’s Zone…..

But it was Okay. A-Okay, I’d say. A wonderful group of students.
A wonderful exercise for me. Most of the students wanted real Artwork
- something diffferent, something wild. A frequent response was something
like - ‘Ah, heck. Just go for it.’ I was On.

It’s late at night now - I’m just going to post of few of them.
More coming soon - I’m fascinated to see what I came up with:

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I recently decided that I needed new Specialty Clothing.

First, I drew Caricatures on the front and back of a tshirt.
That’s useful at some Parties - especially the ones where
I’m hired to draw on tshirts:

Then I had an old jacket that I had been keeping in my car
just in case a client surprised me with an outdoor Party on
a day that I considered too cold (I keep sunscreen for
the other extreme). Anyway, I was unhappy when
I had to wear it because it was an old thing that
I could ‘junk around’ in my car instead of
hanging up like we usually do with our clothes.
But now that I painted on it, I am not only
looking forward to wearing it for those
‘emergencies’. Now I’m thinking it’s too nice
to crumple around in the back of my car.

Now, this is something real useful. Laying on the chair in front of the picture
is an apron that I prepared for the times I’m asked to walk around a Party doing
Caricatures. The little apron has two pockets for holding my drawing supplies:

BTW, I drew the Caricature above to test out the apron.
Nothing like standing up and holding your supplies to encourage
you to draw real fast!

I recently did some quite tame drawings at a Bar Mitzvah.
It’s the Small Caricatures in Mats Option:

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That was Soooo much Fun.
Just a few days after I drew those Fashion Sketches
in Bloomingdales, I was drawing at a Communion.
The Caricatures at the Communion started out fine -
It was much Fun, as usual. But then my approach
to the faces that I draw during Fashion Sketches
kicked in. And I found myself drawing so easily,
so creatively. Here are some of them:

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I finally had a (cellphone) camera with me during
a Fashion Sketch event, and wouldn’t you know….
it wasn’t my best drawing day.

My work is professional enough, tho, that everybody
was thrilled with their pictures. And the woman in
charge of these Bloomingdales events is hoping
that I’ll be available to do it at another one of their stores
next week. So Yay! If our schedules mesh, I’ll get
another chance to do them - I’ll be perfect next time -
I just know it (Lol - and some day I’ll be a perfect person.)

Anyway, here are some of the pictures that I drew
today. They look fine. The drawing just could have
been more fun for me if I was feeling freer:

What happened was that I asked the guests to pose
on the pedestal with the other mannekins. I thought
that would be a good experience for them - which it
was. For them. But not for me. It was only after
the show was over that I realized that it made it
intimidating for me. And I played with the guests -
had them ’strike a pose’. And that made me (and
the drawing) feel controlled.

It was a very successful event.
The guests really enjoyed what my client
was offering them. But I like to do Best. Everything.
For the client, the guests, AND myself. What it is
to be an Artist. Why I do it.

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