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?

A simple Party. For alumni at a local College. I chose to keep the Caricatures mild that night, and apparently I made the right choice for Entertaining these people. They had such a good time with it. That's important to me. I feel like Parties are created with the intention of bringing such moments of Joy to people.

Oh My Goodness. I had to laugh. I was actually setting up to draw at a Holiday Party where the Staff looped this video for over half an hour (an hour?) while we set up for the Holiday Party. It's even labeled right on the screen that this is a Quote "Ten Minute Annoyance" Unquote. Lol ~ Since they played it more than once (some people might have even stopped the video Before it was finished?), I really thought they were going to continue it throughout the entire Party. It must have taken an unusual skill to make that video, to figure out what would be the Most Annoying video. I felt amazed that this could be done.