Client: How many can you do per hour?

Alison: Each situation is different - It's like asking how many words are you going to speak per hour. But I tell people to estimate ten faces per hour.

Client: I'm only having 8 girls.

Alison: It's the same price whether you want one or two hours. Would you like me to keep drawing even after everybody is done?

Client: Maybe you can draw a group picture after drawing each girl individually.

I am so nice. She's only paying the regular 11x17 price, but I'm thinking I'd like to bring a larger paper (which also means carrying a larger drawing board). I like to enjoy my work. Enjoy creating pictures.

AND I even decided to practice my lines before going to the party. Hmm, 8 on a page, how can I practice that?

I just picked 8 photos at random and imitated Party conditions as much as possible. I'm even hungry and a litl uncomfortable and using a marker that I wouldn't usually want. And it's the middle of the night already. Of course, this sort of stuff doesn't usually happen all at once, but a Party Artist has to be ready for it. To keep performing even if conditions aren't perfect.

And I ended up enjoying the exercise so much that I'm thinking I might prefer to do the group picture even before the regular individuals. I'm looking forward to this Party.

I did wish I didn't put on any of the less important necks - until the end. Because it caused a problem finding where to put the 8th face. Can you tell which one was compromised because of that?

Sometimes I'm asked to draw very fast and skip the color - to draw as many people as possible in a large party.

Here are some samples of that. Even though I love Color, I also like the pace of Black/White. Person, person, person, next!

Oh my goodness. We live in such happy times. Imagine - a young girl's birthday party - her little friends around - and she not only gets a Caricaturist - It's even held at a Chocolate Fondue restaurant.

I usually prefer for my clients to acknowledge that I'm not just some Drawing Broad - that I'm a human being too -- and offer me some of the wonderful things that they are enjoying. I think it's classy, even if I choose not to eat. But this time, I was frustrated that nothing was offered to me. I really wanted that melted chocolate. But now that it's days later, I'm glad that I didn't feel welcome to partake. Because that yummy gooey chocolate could be real unhealthy to eat.

I just spent 8 minutes on my wooden Yoga pillow. Then 8 minutes bending the opposite way. And I feel so Great. It's better to feel good than to eat yummy junk.

I can't stand it. I can't leave yesterday's fuzzy pictures to greet us every time we come to this website. I have thousands of photos on my desktop - from previous parties. So I'll post some of them now: