Welcome

Thanks for checking out my work. I appreciate the kind words shared by people visiting this site and try to post new caricatures every week.
I have been drawing all my life, but in 2008 I found the International Society of Caricature Artists
and fell in love with caricatures. I work everyday to improve and hopefully you can see improvements from my first posts here on this blog.
Within the last months (as of August 09) I have stated working on commissions for private parties and corporations. I hope to continue to grow and produce works of art for magazines and other publications.
If your interested, please contact me.
I also do dj and karaoke work. You can also find me on facebook.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Amber Dougherty


This is Amber Dougherty. I became aware of her story from a news story on a local radio station. This is it: Amber Dougherty is a 13 year old from Tyrone, PA and is suffering from Severe Intractable Epilepsy, with a sadly grim prognosis. According to an email sent by a family member, the doctors don't expect for her to be with us next Christmas. Since Amber likes to receive mail, her family is organizing a card drive so that Amber can get mail from all over. She also has a more informative webpage at http://prayernet.geisinger.org Her case is labeled damo56.
I posted on her facebook that I was praying for her and someone emailed me and said i should do a caricature of her. This was a pretty quick painting. I did it all in one evening. Spent about three hours on it. I actually had a lot of it done and something very strange happened. My MAC crashed. I have had it for several years and it may have crashed five times since i had it. Anyhow i had to redraw it but that is ok.
I am not sure how Amber will fell about it. I only did it because someone on her facebook page ask me to. If you would like to see a reference i would rather you visit her on facebook.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Awesome thing you did for Amber! God Bless you!

Candy

Anonymous said...

o my i miss amber soo much. shes one of my best friends. i pray for her every night i even put her on prayer lists. Shes im my grade i really wish she would come back to tyrone soon. I still have hope that she will make it through even though the drs cant do anything else now ): every one misses amber.

Shannon