I work in parks and catering halls. Plain homes and magnificent homes. I work in restaurants and nursing homes. Schools and camps. Gyms. Apartments. Indoors. Outdoors. And under the canopy. I consider myself so lucky to go to some of the most interesting places.

Trendy places. Children's Places. Famous Places. Secret Places. Elegant Places. Little Corners. And smack in the middle of the Stage.

I was inspired to photograph this Mansion as I drove up. I drew here at a Prom for a Prep School:

Yeow! I just accepted a last-minute job for tomorrow in which I'm to draw Body/Hobby. Haven't done that in about a Year!

Quickly. It's late - I don't feel like working just now. But I'd better 'get my hands wet', so to say. So I'll be comfortable when I'm drawing at the Party.

Here's some line-work that I just drew. I remember how it's done. The party will be fine:

Sure, people like pictures of themselves doing other things. But don't they know to prefer Real Honest Artwork? Something like this is so much more Refined:

It's 2 different approaches to Drawing. A real exaggerated Face is created in the moment - I can't know how to draw it until I see the person I'm drawing. But a body/hobby, of something that is not being done at that time, it's done with symbols, almost memorized - a completely different approach than the way I draw the Face that I see.

I prefer to do Face Only. One type of drawing at a time. So I can get into a 'Zone'. But I'm excited/nervous to be doing Body/Hobby again. It isi satisfying to use what I learned.

BTW, Clients usually prefer Face-Only too - Of course it's faster to draw just a face than to draw the face and also the body/hobby. And Clients usually want me to touch-base with as many guests as possible. And guests usually prefer Face-only too. Going quicker, the Party entertainment moves along more smoothly.

Ah, it's all good. If we want to be happy, we will be. I hope I'll soon have some photos to post of the Body/Hobby Party.

Good Night. I'm ready now.

And here - another frustration. Great Caricature - everybody thrilled. But my best photo is too fuzzy:

Ahhh, might as well relax. Fuzzy is soft, lovely, dreamy.

"Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream ~~ Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily Life is but a dream"

I've been trying to photograph all my Caricatures at some of my recent events. But it's so frustrating that I still can't see most of them. Sometimes because of lighting, but usually because I don't keep the camera still. And because there's no Zoom on my camera.

This batch for instance. They were taken at a High School Prom. I literally counted 55 Caricatures from the photos that I remembered to take during the 4-hour event. But most of the photographs are useless. Foggy things. Flashy lights. That sort of stuff.

I can't take more time to photograph more carefully because that would interfere with my drawing-zone. So I just point the camera in the general direction, and shoot.

I'll show you what I mean by including 2 of the least-foggy unusable photos near the end of this post and 2 of the wild unusable photos that I like to look at anyway: