It's a cold rainy day in NY today. A good day to go through some of these photos here. Look at these! I had drawn them on such a warm day that I was really glad that the hosts asked me to set up the Caricatures in the screened in porch:

I'm part of a big national campaign for Balvenie Scotch. Did 3 gigs for them in less than 2 weeks. While waiting for the first event to start, I played around with the bottle:

Whew - I'm busy. It's all good. It's all wonderful. Like, like yesterday - First I did face-painting for a woman who's hired me 5 times already. And while I was at her Little Chefs party, one of the guests asked if I remembered working at that guest's party - You remember - Caricaturing on the balls.... "Yes! That was the only time anyone had ever asked me to Caricature on balls. I remember being outside by the swingset...." And other one of the guests asked if I remembered working at another guest's party too.... Then, in the evening, working at a liquor store for Balvenie Scotch, one of the customers was excited to see me - "I still have that Caricature you drew of me at the party on Wall Street...." Me: "Yes! I remember that party - I was in the middle of the room - Really drawing wildly that day...." And another customer: "You drew at my party - Remember.... I touch so many lives under such good circumstances. I'm so happy.

Did something different today. Since I did something different, I decided to post something different. Today I shall tell you the recipes I made up for Thanksgiving dinner. It was very good. Sugar-free, Wheat-free.

Turkey Stuffing Red Stuff Gravy Brussel Sprouts Carrot Juice Baked Apples Organic Sweet Potatoes

Turkey: Buy a little turkey. Sprinkle it with nutmeg and rosemary. Fill it with stuffing (see recipe below) Sew it up! Put in oven at 360-degrees Check every half-hour or so til done

Stuffing: Cook package of dried barley in water til starts getting soft Cut up the following to mix into the barley: 2 apples 3 tangerines (long proces to take out the seeds - let me know if you need instructions for that) 2 stalks celery

Red Stuff:

Cook Stovetop: 4 bags of fresh cranberries 2 apples handful of organic raisins Quart of cut strawberries

Long time. Stir often. Til it breaks down and becomes 'sauce'

Sweet Potatoes:

Most important is to buy Organic. Wash. Put on baking dish. Cook at 550, until you're ready to put the turkey in. Then cook at 360 til soft

Mushroom Gravy:

Make a rue: Heat a few TB oil in small fendl. Add a few TB whole-wheat flour and stir til all incorporated. Add 1/4 cup water at a time til you've incorporated 1 1/2 cups of water. Add 1 cup diced mushrooms and cook for a while

Baked Apples:

Cut little caps off the top of the (MacIntosh or Fuji) Apples Scoop out the apple-seeds Stuff with Organic Raisins Sprinkle with Cinammon Place in glass baking dish and cook til done (check every 20 minutes or so)

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: