Happy birthday, Barry Bostwick!

aka "Brad Majors" ($!& @#$%^&*)

Another hour-and-a-half effort in Photoshop for the ISCA birthday thread.

Sneak peek...

...at the next "Celestia and Emily: Girl Caricaturists in Texas" comic, which will be published in the upcoming issue of Exaggerated Features (the quarterly magazine for members of International Society of Caricature Artists).

Once again, Celestia and I collaborated digitally, from opposite ends of the country, to come up with a look at this year's State Fair shenanigans. When it's published (quite a ways off, though) I'll post it in its entirety here. Til then, you can ponder this snippet of one of the Fair's delicacies...

My page in the ISCA Artist directory

Just updated my long-stagnant page on the ISCA site. It's so hard to choose which samples best represent what I do, when there can only be a handful...
The whole ISCA website was revamped by member Dave Schwan late last fall, and I must say, it looks very professional and sleek now! The amazing caricatures displayed on its banner are by some of the best artists in our field in the world: from l-r, Jan Op de beeck, Sam Gorrie, Paul Moyse, Vin Altamore, Lar De Souza, Joe Bluhm, and Court Jones.

Yes, Freddie is my Macbook Pro's wallpaper. I had an even more flamboyant photo of him up before this one...

Happy birthday, Yoko Ono!

She's 77 today! ( And my younger daughter is 19...)

Painted in Photoshop.

Campus Mardi Gras party!

On Sunday evening, it was my pleasure to draw for some college students and faculty who were celebrating Mardi Gras!



The young man in the last photo could do a mean Joker smile---he said people always told him that, or that he looked like Obama!

9th birthday party!

On Saturday, I was invited to draw for a nine-year-old girl's birthday slumber party...and she and her friends outdid each other with interesting themes! The most unusual was "Could I be drawn in in a strawberry patch?" so I drew the girl AS a strawberry!
The lone boy, the big brother, did an admirable job, smiling as a bunch of squealing girls had loads of fun. Happy birthday, Olivia!

Happy Presidents' Day!

Happy birthday, Abe Lincoln!
Ebony pencil sketch, 6" by 6".

The reference photo is a less-familiar, unbearded version of Lincoln taken in 1860.

Happy birthday, Sarah Palin (bleh)

She's today's ISCA birthday celebrity. I'm not a fan...but she sure is a good caricature target!

Update: Decided to add some color.....

Blizzard outside, artist snugly at work inside...

...and I'm sure many other artists share this situation today! Can you spot my nearly-buried waist-high purple gazing ball on my lawn? And where is my driveway?? Time for a cup of tea!
Where I live, a record-breaking snowstorm is dropping another 2 feet on top of the two feet that fell a few days ago. I'm inside working on my usual dead-of-winter tasks: marketing, sketching, paperwork, studio-organizing, what have you. Just updated my long dormant Linkedin account:

Here's hoping the power stays on, it is supposed to get very windy later. I can live without the internet, but I like to have heat! :-O

New man in my life....

...and he's my just-arrived precious little grandson!



Not even a week old yet and here's the first rendition of him by his grandmother (that would be me ;-). Took about an hour and a half in Photoshop. Definitely NOT a caricature, that will come later!
My daughter Charlotte and her s.o. Ian are his proud parents. He even came two weeks early to share the joy!