ALL COLOR caricatures at wedding reception with great music and surprising guests!

 This wedding had quite a few stand-out features!!! 

First, the groom booked me via The Bash, and he and his new wife made a BEAUTIFUL couple. 

Click here to see their reception, including their caricature reaction on my IG.

Second, they had booked an amazing musician, Dominique Hammons, to play for most of the festivities,

 it was so enjoyable drawing to his music. You can hear his playing the the Reel linked above. 

Thirdly, I got to do ALL COLOR CARICATURES, something I rarely get to do because they take longer. But the groom even thought of that...he booked another caricaturist to do B/W caricatures for friends, while I drew family members. Had never tried a system like that, so it was a first!

Here are ALL my drawings for the evening!

Above---the only "subjects with caricature" photo I took all night (other than the bride and groom) because I needed as much time as I could get to finish that many color caricatures!

Then the final amazing thing...while I was drawing, someone tapped me on the shoulder and I turned around to see...my neighbors! (left bottom in above pic). I said, "what are you doing here??" and she said the groom is related to us!!! So I asked if they'd recommended me to him, and the answer was no...it was TOTAL COINCIDENCE!!!!!! 

I love my job! Thanks for having me on such an auspicious evening!!!! :-)

Tea Party Caricatures!

 I love tea, so doing this elegant tea party, given by an aunt for her niece, was right up my alley! And almost everyone sported a fascinator or a hat! I was in heaven!

It was a small group, so I was able to do everyone full-body, full color! I don't get to do that very much anymore. 

Thank you for having me!

Sweet 50th birthday caricatures...

 This birthday gal's DJ husband saw me at an event TEN YEARS AGO and kept my card, and they just booked me for her 50th this past weekend. :-)

Yes I added the final "n" in her name... after he showed me I forgot to fit it in! My brain gets way ahead of itself sometimes...

Yes, he know everyone thinks he looks like Tony Soprano. ;-P

We couldn't even remember the event where we met, but his wife told me he looked it up in his notes and it was a wedding in 2013.  Good note-keeping!!

It was a small group, so I did everyone in color. Here are a few (the ladies reacted with good-natured screams when they saw them!)

Thank you so much for having me!!! :-)

8th grade graduation dance caricatures!

I drew ALL the students in the class of 2023 at this New York-themed 8th grade graduation dance. :-)

But I only got photos of these three...because it was a full-color gig and I was focused on getting them all done in two hours! :-) And I did!

Thanks for having me!!!! :-)

Sweet 17th Birthday caricatures!

This young lady had to forego a Sweet 16 celebration last year because of the pandemic. So this was her Sweet 17th-- with slumber party festivities and caricatures!  Everyone was in full color because of the small number of guests. They gave me a wonderful reaction when I drew the birthday girl as a finale, and they ALL saw it at once:

The various themes for each caricature were all fun and unique.

Thanks for having me Liliana!!

In-store holiday event caricatures...

 On a bright and shiny December Saturday morning, my caricatures were an unexpected bonus for customers at an upscale home/gift shop not far from Wilmington, Delaware. The hot-cake item folks were buying were POTUS, VPOTUS and RBG tree ornaments!

Santa was on hand as well, visiting many of the shoppes in the complex. I heard that FLOTUS was actually shopping nearby, (folks came in telling us so!) but she didn't come into our particular shop...it would have been fun to see her buy an ornament of her own husband!!

All my drawings were full color, and most of them were live sitters. 

The two drawings above were from photos. 

Below: my setup was a little different, I sat at a high table.

Thanks to Goofy Faces for the gig! :-D

88th, 65th and 61st Birthday Caricatures!

A triple birthday party---for a dad, and his son and daughter---netted them color caricatures, and a family group caricature (whew, fit them all in) with the whole family:

 

Everyone also got their own caricature too. :-)

Thanks for having me, it was fun talking to all my subjects as it was a small party. 

Pageant caricatures!

It's been one year to the day since my gigs started back up last summer, after the first wave of pandemic...and that, after five months of no work at all. I hope we don't have another shutdown this autumn, also like last year. 

This was in a lovely venue on the water...

...with a couple of hundred beautiful. accomplished young ladies to be drawn in a three-hour booking

(so hardly any photos)...

but myself and SIX other lady caricaturists GOT IT DONE!!! :-)

This was a true pleasure of a gig!

 

Brunch caricatures for a leadership retreat day!

Once in awhile I get to do a gig, where there are only a few guests... so I can do GROUP caricatures (like the above) and elaborate COLOR caricatures (like below)

 Thanks to GIGMASTERS! And I got to see some caricature love on FB afterwards. ;-)

Call Center Caricatures on an Employee Appreciation Day!

This was a fun gig for me: ALL COLOR CARICATURES!

These two wanted to be drawn as Thelma and Louise!!!! 

This lady trained new hires, so I got silly on her word balloon..

Everyone there worked in a vast, open-plan office. When they found out caricatures were to be part of their festivities, this lady pulled me to her cubicle and showed me this:

I'd drawn her and her daughter in 2009!!!