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?

Of course, I felt special when the woman in the restaurant recognized me. "You were the one from the Communion...." "Such Talent..." all that sort of stuff. This time the woman's name was Elaine. And she was an absolute doll:

But I had noticed Elaine before she spoke to me. I thought she was a stranger as I had passed Elaine as I walked up a ramp to get in to the diner. She had been helping a man in a wheelchair (with a breathing tank). While I ate my dinner, Elaine barely had a bite. She was busy relating to the man she was with. Encouraging him, reading the newspaper to him....Just being delightful.

Since I had made a comment about being famous when Elaine recognized me, watching her made me think about all the Unsung Heroes in this world. The people who uplift others, who tell a stranger how special she is, who kindly help people who are in their lives. People who seem to exist just to admire and appreciate others. I'm so impressed with the Elaines of this world.

BTW, here's a picture of another boy I had drawn in the diner that day. A stranger. I liked his confident attitude. He too might have been one of the strengths of this world. Who knows? I just love people: