Easter Egg Hunt for kids with special needs

My second year at Now I Can's annual Easter Egg Hunt was a success! Drew many kids in my speedy line-drawing-only mode, thanks to generous folks who sponsored my performance. 

Thank you for having me again! Here are a few faces from my evening:

I was so busy I never even laid eyes on the Easter Bunny!

Thanks again! :-)

Easter Egg Hunt Caricatures...

...for children of varying abilities (think beeping eggs for sight-impaired, etc.). The Now I Can Northeast organization put on their 3rd annual Easter Egg Hunt, and they asked me to bring my caricature skills out to Lancaster, PA. So I did! And I got to enjoy meeting the little egg-hunters, and the Egg-Leaver himself!

Didn't take many pics, as being speedy as a rabbit here ( doing line-drawing -only caricatures) meant more kids got drawn...

Here's my Reel on IG, and the event was even covered by WGAL Lancaster!

A lovely assistant was provided to keep my line organized, thank you!

Buh-bye, Easter Bunny!

I received this review on Google from my client, thank you so much:

If there were 10 stars, I would give them! We found Emily on Google, and what a perfect fit she was for an Adaptive Easter Egg Hunt for children with special needs. She was kind, sensitive, and thoughtful in her approach to the children AND her caricatures were terrific!! Each caricature was fun and an excellent representation of each child. The kids loved it, and the parents were delighted with her work and truly appreciated Emily's style. Will definitely, without a doubt, contact her again!!

Easter caricatures at company party

This giant distribution facility had an after-Easter party for kids of employees...lots of fun was had by all!

The Bash facilitated this one, and my wonderful client had this to say soon after: 

"Emily was truly amazing!! Everyone that attended the event loved their caricatures. The hostess loved it so much she is planning on having her for her niece's Sweet 15!!"

Easter caricatures!

On Saturday, I did another backyard Easter-egg-hunt family party, for a treasured client who keeps finding different events for me to do. :-) ( Her wedding, her family Easter parties, and coming up next, her company picnic this summer!)

Always a pleasure! Thank you for having me! See you in July!

Family Easter Party Caricatures

 The day before Easter reunited me with a repeat client whose wedding I did a few years ago. She had moved to a farm in a rural area, and was having a huge outdoor family party complete with egg hunt and visit from the Easter Bunny! I was thrilled to be there and draw caricatures in the lovely warm sunshine!

 These caricatures were done using only Prismacolor Artstix, which have actually been discontinued, so I hear. However, I have a whole shoebox full of them, since they have been my main shading method for more than fifteen years now. 

Afterwards, the hostess gifted me with a dozen farm fresh eggs! Thank you SO much!

Easter Brunch Caricatures

Easter Sunday is a day to spend brunching with other families, meeting the Easter Bunny...and getting a caricature!

 What a setting!!! Usually at this venue, I'm set up in the ballroom. This was the first time they put me in the library....even though the sign says hallway, I had too much of a crowd there! ;-)

Minor catastrophy at this gig...I'd forgotten to pack my little drawing table. So I improvised with a desk pad I found where they seated me, WHAT LUCK!

Not just for kids, either!

Easter Brunch Caricatures 2016

The Union League is definitely an upscale place in which to draw caricatures! :-) For the kids, it was more about the Easter Bunny than caricatures,  but the parents of my subjects were very happy!

I spy an Easter Bunny!

Easter Brunch caricatures!

My gig on New Year's went so well that I was asked back to draw caricatures on Easter in this sumptuous setting:

 The easel and my little ergonomic chair didn't quite fit in amidst the marble, leather and nineteenth-century oil paintings:

and the closest I got to the Easter Bunny was this sign:

But I happily drew everyone in their Easter finery. :-)

Got the photo right before the floodgates opened up. ;-)