Well, It’s been a few weeks since I sat down to this. Besides having a ‘Killer Birtday Party” in April where over 50 of my best friends showed up in togas and wigs, I’ve been pretty busy with art jobs. Busier than I’ve been in a long time in fact. I just finished a creating a set of 7 cartoon safari characters for Odato Marketing Group. There’s a hippo, a monkey, a giraffe, 2 kids and a dentist. It’s all for a dental outfit somewhere out of state. I modeled the little girl after my unofficial God Child, Oliviana Walsh. (it’s her 2nd birthday tomorrow!) I’m going to give her one of the sketches. Once I learn how to post images I’ll show you some of this stuff, but for now you will just have to take my word for it. Over the last few weeks, I also designed a cartoon baskerville hound for Baskerville Advertising. Besides all that, been pretty steady with caricature gigs lately. Spring is an upbeat time for parties, graduations, proms and fundraisers. It usually dies down during the summer but then I have what I call ‘teaching season’. I’ll be teaching 4 weeks of Teen Illustration at Ringling College this summer. June 14th-July 9th. It’s not too late to register for that! Just call (941) 955-8866. Then I’ll be teaching “Drawing in Color” at Wildacres in NC in July 18th-24th and after that I’ll be doing my second “Passionate Pastels” weekend workshop at the Chastain Art Center in Atlanta July 30th-1st of Aug. Dang it, did I mention I’ll be teaching cartooning at the Jackaranda Public Library? That will be in Venice Florida the week of June 7th-11th “and hey! It’s free!“.Oh the fun never ends. I hope to make enough money from all that to afford to attend the ISCA (Caricature Convention) in November in Vegas! Wish me Buck, I mean luck.
For now, I’m resting up from drawing caricatures at the Brentwood Elementary School “Spring Fling fundraiser” last night in Sarasota. Then today from drawing kids as comic book characters for ‘Free Comic Book Day‘ at the North Sarasota Library. Then this afternoon from teaching my teen students at Art and Frame of Sarasota, how to draw perspective! Yikes! I wish somebody taught me how to draw perspective at age 15! Every now and again, “I Rock”! So now….right now…..just catching up on some computing that’s gone ignored too long, like ‘My Blog’.