Oh My Goodness. Does it ever end?

There's so much going on with the Face Painters in Central Park that I thought I'd get an edge by including Caricatures. But there's only one spot with any sort of shade, and I'm not usually the one who gets it. And it's so unpleasant to try to keep those sweaty color-sticks usable in the sun.

So I remembered the recent work I did for the M&M's company. Posted here on this blog 7/5/08. Bright Colors! Done with Markers. Instead of the beautiful Color-Stick-Mixes that I usually use. I decided to make regular Caricatures using Markers only when I'm in Central Park.

And that meant New Samples. Once again, back to the Drawing Broad.

Here's what I made:

Good? Well, I was thrilled with them. Thinking of using them all the time now. And before I even walked out of the store where they were being laminated, I got a call from my friend, Subway. Another Caricature artist. And what's he talking about, but a new Color Scheme (with the Color Sticks that we usually use) that he says is just fantastic. Start with the darks, a brownish and a pinkish, then add the peach....And then,

I went online just messing around. Free time. Looking at pictures. And I see a fabulous way to color eyeglasses with blue and green stripes of color sticks. i could figure out how to do that with the Markers, but that gets me away from the Simplicity that I wanted to use the Markers for.

It never ends. New ideas. New pictures. More choices. I'm never finished. Maybe I'll sleep when I'm dead?

I was teaching Acrylic Painting today. I got to work early, so I drew a Caricature from a magazine that I had in the car.

The picture came out fantastic! It was based on a photo of a very angry man. The first thing I drew was the Nose, and I noticed how very narrow it was at the top. And his eyebrows were pointing in toward the nose and:

I ended up drawing a Star! Right between the eyes.

Gotta clear away some of the papers from here. Hmmmm, what's this recently finished sketchbook here.

I used to keep the litle green thing (4x4?) in my pocketbook. I remember the day I drew this. I was out with family, and this woman was in the restaurant. A normal woman. She came already 'exaggerated'. Nothing like being a Caricature Artist to Know that people really do look wild. Normal people. And Nobody, nobody really looks like Mr. In-Between. Or else we wouldn't be able to tell who's who.

I brought my car in for routine maintenance this morning. They treat me like a Cadillac here. Let me use the Copy machine for some coloring pages I made last night for a Clown. And I used the water Cooler while they let me use the Computer while waiting.

Perusing this blog, I was inspired by my post of 5/28/08. So I drew a 3/4 view picture from a front-view photo:

But I wondered if I would have easily had more intensity if I just drew what I saw:

Then I was looking through my sketches, and I found this one from when I was working on my lineS quality at a recent Cooper Union Graduation:

So I tried a more careful picture of my front view. What a difference the quality of the pen would have made:

Barely finished my last stroke when the mechanic walked in. Is my car finished? Yes!