Big Ben

This is a caricature i did of Big Ben for the J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital.  I hope they like it! I enjoyed doing it!

Barney Frank

 

This is a sketch of good ol' Barney Frank. A representative from the 4th congressional district of Massachusetts 

Alexandria Barn

Here is a little barn that is located near Alexandria PA. It was a pretty quick painting, so I guess i can call it a watercolor sketch. I want to spend more time and do a good one. I have been looking at a lot of Tony Couch work and like his style.

Mapleton Feed Mill

So, I broke out the watercolor paints last night. I found a picture i took of the Mapleton Feed mill a few years ago. I forgot how much I like to paint with watercolor. Not sure I will ever get good at it, but i will keep on trying.

Liam Neeson

The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts is now going on in State College PA. It is a beautiful day and I had every intention of going. I started this sketch and two hours later, here I am. A little too late to head to the arts fest. Oh well, there's always the Huntingdon County Fireman's convention in Cassville.

Mmmmmm Jell-O Pudding....

This was done for a caricature contest that is held weekly on facebook. Winner gets his or her caricature displayed on the contest page for a week.

Aaron Tippin

Had a chance to meet Arron Tippin at DelGrosso's Park in Tippton PA. I made a couple of copies, giving one to Arron and keeping the signed one. I think he liked it. When i was getting the marker back from him, I accidentally grabbed the caricature i had for him. He said "wait a second, that's mine!" His reaction when he first saw it was good and the steel guitar player came over before i met Aaron and said he would love it.

P P P Pokerface Lady Gaga

A little Lady Ga Ga. Emphases on the "little". Not much of a lady. Took about three hours from rough to finish. I think i could have more fun pulling out more details in her hair and using a few more layers to make it look more realistic, but I didn't want to spend more time on it.

A weedin and a caricature

Seems like this summer is going to a busy summer for weddings. I have a lot more than usual, or at least it seems. Maybe it is because the weather is still cool and i have already played three weddings.
Yesterday I was at the Shaver's Greek Fire Hall, (fire hall is a Pennsylvania place for Wedding Receptions, ha!). Got there at 3 and started music at 4. It was the wedding of Amanda Kipphan and Todd Brown. They went to Vegas and got married. Had the reception last night. It was a good time, even though i was a little tired. Had a late night the day before and an early morning.
Started looking at the faces and picking one out to get a warm up caricature done and as I played the music during dinner I knocked out one or two roughs. As the different traditional elements of the wedding reception took place I did a few more drawing. I will post them here, although I did not get pictures of all of them.
I did these just for fun and do not have pics of the subjects. Sorry
About the caricatures. The top one of the man holding the beer was a fun drawing. Later i was told that within the last few weeks this man had open heart surgery, so after the drawing was given to him, I had a good conversation and we shared stories about both being under the knife.
The second drawing I did when i saw this guy come in. I think i started it before he sat down. When i first looked at him, I thought it looked like his forehead sloped back and i tried to capture that. He had a pretty heavy tone to his face where he had shaved and shaved his head. I tried to pick that up with a blue color over the peach. The flash when I took the picture kind of washed that out.
I think the next two were brothers. I did them because they were in line of site. The man with the glasses had his son along and had ask me to draw him. They left before i had the chance to do so. The man without glasses had some writing on his hat but i was not able to see it. I took artistic license and substituted it.
The next picture of the girl with braces ask me to do one of her and because i was still DJing, I said the only way she could get one was if she danced the whole time. She did, but I don't think she was thrilled about it. I tried to reflect that in the drawing.
The last one, was the last one. It was almost 11:30 and i was beat, but i just caught a glimpse and went for it. Again the colors are washed out a bit because of the flash, as all the pictures are, but i was happy with the drawing.
Hope you enjoyed!

Hines Ward again

After seeing Hines on Dancing with the Stars. I thought he might look good in a ballet skirt. I went back and tightened up some of the drawing and added that skirt here. Although I am sure he is a tough man, I am pretty sure he will get at least a little harassment in the locker room.

Hines Ward

This was a quick one and still kind of rough, but it's ok...for now, GO STEELERS!

Crash

I crashed around 2:15 Saturday January 8th. Here are some pictures.