Drawing Blood at the Country Club!
A quite ‘sobering’ experience at this gig at a New Jersey country club’s Anniversary celebration…drawing sauced up and surly folks while wearing a French beret and scarf in poor lighting, and dealing with some truly lovely and endearing personalities, all on an empty stomach, could have been a recipe for disaster and tragedy, but I used the opportunity to my advantage instead, and let the derangement flow out the Markette tip…STILL waiting to get paid for that last hour…arrgh.
Trade Show Convention Caricatures
Here’s some of the great people I drew for a Boat and Marina Equipment supply company that puts on an annual convention in Atlantic City for their clients every November. This is the 3rd year I drew for them – awesome, generous hardworking folks who run the event, and it’s ALWAYS a pleasure working with them. And what a great, fun crowd of people attending this with hilarious faces and funny accents (many are from Long Island, Maryland, and of course Jersey!)! Couldn’t do it without them!
Honest Markers and Sadistic Mothers
What else? more fun comically digging out the tragically humorous heart of humankind , in a light heartedly brutal display of permanent marker honesty and pungent fumes… These ones in particular were done at an annual Oktoberfest celebration in supposedly upwardly-mobile Upper Merion (a near battle royale between two mothers over whose kid could get more than one caricature from the two artists working, despite the quickly approaching end of the gig, nearly ensued, until I had to write up a sign proclaiming: “ONE CARICATURE PER CUSTOMER ONLY PLEASE”….which STILL did not cool the fires of illogical thinking and desires to have all 5 kids be made fun of twice…), and the second set is from a student “Mind-Reading and Past Lives” event squeezed into a little campus restaurant/hangout on the grounds of Monmouth University. After having had their cards, palms, or charts read by the fortune tellers, I was supposed to ask each student what past life they might have had if they had had one, or somesuch. Most didn’t really think too hard about it, and didn’t really care what they got drawn as, and neither did I. At least there were no fights over whose past life was cooler, or something. Though that might have been entertaining.
Some Cute Ones
For some reason I didn’t take many photos of gigs in September, so this is all I have. Please don’t cry. Anyway, here’s some cute ones.
Holy Flashback, Batman
Mermaid Lakes outdoor Company PARTY in the middle of January. These gals were good sports and real troopers considering the 24 degree winter weather.
No, just kidding, this was in August.
BBQaricatures
Another summer company picnic outing, in Jersey, with two other artists. I liked the sly faced faux-hawked kid, and the gigantic eyed Miss NJ Pageant Winner girl (or something) the most, and just didn’t feel like taking photos of the rest of this 5 hour gig. I must have been tired.
Another summer picnic outing, in Jersey, with the smell of Burgers, hot dogs, and fish BBQing on the grill. Man, I can’t wait for summer. Wah!
Care-icatures (I know…lame…)
This is always a fun one – third year for a senior living facility Staff Party in Allentown, PA. Good people, good faces, good eats. Smashing, baby.
