At this one, on a patio adjoining an office building, I was offered a vodka-and-orange juice! I said, "Um, do you want your drawings to be any good???"
This guy took out his partial plate so I could draw him au natural!
These are 8.5 x 11. This size does have its advantages for the subjects as it's easier to carry around and is easily copied and framed.
Three happy faces, I guess they all drank their screwdrivers with their pancakes!
Next up was an afternoon corporate party. Thankfully it was back to 11 x 14 paper, which is way better for group caricatures...
Five in the above one! Then some single ones...back to drawing big!
These are some Calgary caricaturists that I met at this event, Mark and Garry. They use printed borders which are very popular with the guests...so much so, that when people asked if I had the printed paper, and I replied no, they preferred to go to an artist that did...
At another breakfast gig, this was the sight just outside the window where I was set up. Some of the venues we had were dark restaurants, (nice ambiance but poor drawing conditions) so we always made a beeline for the window...
It was a predominantly lady-event...
The afternoon found us in a theater lounge, displacing the house restaurant for the afternoon!.
Good thing I had brought my tiny clip-on light, it did the job just fine:
And again, it was a lady-populated event:
The next day, I finally got to EAT at a pancake breakfast, not just draw:
The afternoon's festivities were in another restaurant, where the client told me exactly what she wanted on a sign:
Yup, we seated ourselves next to the window so we could see what we were doing!
There's Kelly!
These are great, Em. You two must have been exhausted by the end of the Stampede!
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