In my previous post, I planned it all out. Markers in the Hot Sun. Colorsticks in other situations. Or so I thought.

Maybe we never really change! Could that be? Nah. More likely, it happens so subtley, that we don't see the growth at each point. It's just an overall thing - like when you're 20 years old, you're different thanwhen you were 5 years old. And when you're 50 years old, you're different than when you were 16 years old.

Anyway, I'm real interested in seeing how my Marker studies affected this weekend's work. But there are so many photos here that I can't separate them out.

This weekend I worked indoor Parties. One woman turning 47, and another turning 30. Both indoors. Very comfortable. I used mostly color sticks, as usual. But I also used the colored Markers a bit more than usual.

So here's a whole bunch of photos from several other parties. Hmmm, I recognize at lease some of them from an After-Prom sort of thing that I did in NJ.

Some were from an Office Party that I did in NYC - in their office in the daytime. Some were from an Office Party that was held after-hours in a dark 'bar?' - I don't know how to refer to that type of venue - It's one of those low-lit heavy-wooded places that have private parties in the basement and walk-in yuppies upstairs - this basement had a pool table, sometimes I notice karaoke.....

And some of these pictures were created at a Pool-Party in a backyard.

And some were done at a Graduation Party at a magnificent house - it was originally decorated out back with tents, but it was moved into the library when it started raining.

AND I see at least one from an unusual Block Party that was all done in one family's backyard.

Oh! And there's some here from a Corporate Party in which my client bussed in his employees to his magnificent house during the daytime.

Lol - the last 2 pictures were from even 2 other parties. One done in a small cement backyard in the Bronx - they also erected a canopy because it did start raining too. So then the Father drove me back to my car which was a long way off and I found out all about his huge Snakes!

And the other was done in the living room of a quiet suburban house - 1-Year-Old's Party.

So these pictures come from at least Nine Parties! Life is a party. It's a whirlwind.

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I know. I know what I'm going to do. At least I think I do.

When I'm stuck out in the hot sun and color-sticks start sweating, That's when I'll easily switch to the Marker technique that I wrote about yesterday. It will take care of the problem.

And when I'm in an easier environment, I'll use the beautiful color sticks.

Unless I have some reason to do otherwise.

At least, that's what I Think I'll do.

Oh my goodness. I wanted to take the new pictures off my phone, so I checked my computer's desktop to make room. And, oh my goodness. I found hundreds of pictures that I still haven't posted from the last time I took photos off my phone.

So here are a few more of them:

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?