September Blues

The caricature drawing in the theme parks has come to an end for me, so I will have to find other avenues for my pens to let rip. I was lucky enough to do Charlbury Street fair last weekend which was great fun and one of the best organised and pleasurable village fairs I have ever been to, it took me back to when I was a lad and lived in a little village. The weather stayed nice as well which made the day.

To practice I generally just draw any head that springs to mind and cover an A3 piece of paper although the bottom character(with black hair) was based on a caricature artist called Mike Carlon.

I have tried to post last week but could not get any pictures to load up so left it in frustration in the end. This week things seem to be working better. Below is a quick theme park style drawing of one of the staff.

I also was asked to do a quick jokey cartoon of a couple of Chefs, so I did theme park style heads and put them into Photo shop over a picture? not the best but time was short.



Finally managed to get something down on this blog so I am going to quit while I am ahead.
Best Wishes to all.

Fruit -Catures

Hi All, it seems an age since I have had a chance to blog, but I thought I would get a quick rant off now why I had a few moments alone on the PC. I never seem to get a chance to get on the main house PC as I have 2 teenage children who although they have their own laptops always have to do work on mine because its attached to 3 different printers and 4 different scanners although everything is WiFi, they tell me its about file formats and the like??? Also my wife spends a lot of time on it , so to free up that time I have bought her the Apple iPad 2, which she seems to like and I will no doubt get a go on!
 I like lots of others follow a number of other blogs on a weekly bases, but I have noticed everyone has gone quiet this year as I guess they are very busy working. One inparticular I follow is Pencil Dreams by Steve Hearn who is an exceptional Caricature Artist and daily blogger( well worth a visit). The other day he posted a Banana-cature, which I thought was neat so I had a go myself on a Pear? not just any old pear though, this one was grown by myself. Although I have quite a small garden I love the thought of growing my own fruit, and last year I invested in a pear tree only to get Pear drop and got none. This year I have looked after it and have a small crop of 13 pears, although they are a bit hard?

I have now put him in a brown paper bag to see if it softens and hopefully will taste nice?

Work wise I am still doing Caricatures at Warwick Castle and  just for fun I have drawn the Jester (Barry- Nice guy) below a few times but thought I would do him digitally. This is still a work in progress as I am still learning about backgrounds and Lettering in Photshop.

Time is up for now but  I do hope to be back soon.

Best Wishes.