My Agent is sending me out to Paint the Whole Scene at a Party.

So I practiced a Scene when I was in Penn Station. Took a photo of the scene to show you, but I did not look at the Photo while I was drawing. I was working live, On the Spot. Just using old markers and small computer paper this time ~ to get comfortable with an ever-changing scene. Success! I loved it. I'm looking forward to the Event (where I would Not be tempted to focus on a garbage pail ~ lol ~ Parties are usually dazzling with their Party Decorations!)

Note: This picture is Unfinished. I only had about 20 minutes to work on it before I had to get to the Corporate Holiday Party.

So now I am also offering Full Party Paintings. That''s CARICATURES, FASHION SKETCHES, FACE-PAINTING, FREEHAND GLITTER TATTOOS, BALLOONS, And Now PARTY PAINTINGS Too!

Here are some of the People that I drew at the Liquor Store. I like to see my photos. Makes me feel like I'm back at the event, remembering the good cheer

Not just faces. At this event for a Liquor Store, my client asked me to draw the outside of the Store. So there I was, set up in a Parking Lot, and coming up with this design.

It was okay out there ~ very little traffic :-) But it started to get cold. So I came home after the event to see that one of my initial idea had been forgotten. Because I started hurrying to get back inside the warm store to draw the people. I planned on using the 'notice me' trick of putting red in the center of the picture. By coloring the awning the red/white/blue brighter than it really was. Oh. Yellow/green has a good feel to it, but I had planned on that red/white/blue. So I added it here if PhotoShop. Just to see. And yes ~ it is better.

Anyway, my client did like the yellow/green picture just fine. Later during the event, he asked me to draw the inside of the place ~ where he had his 'Party' set up. I managed to include him in my design. Like the maestro conducting the event. So much more is said in a Real Caricature than in a Photographic Representation of a scene.

Real Art is made by People who are Alive.

What it's like to be drawing in front of people. Easily. As though my brain can actually think two thoughts at the same time.

Not really possible. But I enjoy what comes out, and just deal with it. I keep responding to whatever happens. Or

Or I just let it be. With as much Surprise as the audience.

Perhaps you can understand it by what happened with this sign. My client was The Liquor Store. They paid me to draw at their Special Event. But I quickly realized that the store's customers thought Caricatures were just one more thing that they could buy there. So I decided to quickly make a sign to let them know that it was Free for them.

And look at what happened. A Happy Accident of Poetry because the girl that I had just drawn was still talking with me while I was making the sign. Sometimes lalala's happen in the Artwork, sometimes in the Conversation. It's all part of the Experience.

Did you catch it? Did you see that the sign says "Caricatrue instead of the Caricature that I had planned to write?