Christmas Day 2013

It's been a couple of months since my last post, I have just been so busy with my real Job I have not really got a spare moment? except now on Christmas Day! and its back to work tomorrow for me, ( I know you can hear the violins playing?) I have done a load of Caricatures over the last 2 months. Here are  just a few as I have forgot to take photos of so many.

These where of some girls working in a retail store I thought I would do as practice of my Fete style. I don't think these where well received by the victims (cannot please everyone even for Free)

 

I did all the celebs on I'm a celeb get me out of here for fun and sent them in. some came out OK others were rubbish, I had a lot of other things going on when I did these(poor excuse?).

 I enjoyed the Digital as I don't do them that often, but lost the likeness of Laura Whitmore when I painted her in.

 
I ended up getting 3 post cards of the presenters as a reward (Big spenders ITV2)

I do cartoons sometimes of any funny moments at work or I hear rumours of funny incidents and as I work with Aircraft they have been talked about and I ended up being asked to do some for a Flight Safety Calendar. I knocked a few out and had some already, so here is a taster of some.

 I thought I better do an updated digital caricature of me, as shown below.

Guest have arrived so I have to Dash, MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone who stops by and HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Unusual Takeaway

The other night we could not be bothered cooking, like many families and decided to have a Chinese Takeaway. We generally do not do this that often and I was dispatched to do the hunter gatherer bit and when I got to the takeaway on the wall, local people had drawn various things on chip bags and stuck them on the wall? The owner invited me to do the same and as I have never had an exhibition of any kind I thought this could be my first? So I decided to do a series of caricatures of the staff and some doodles. You never know just maybe a travelling big wig from Disney may stop by and give me a job! (Joke).

I quite enjoyed drawing on the chip bags as they are quite small and I like to draw big and the paper had a greasy rough texture which made the crayons take quite well. Below is the first 4 I drew and put up on the wall.

Enjoying the first lot I decided to do all the staff the next day, and yet another takeaway(Diet out the window!)

So if anyone is around the Carterton, Oxon area, my work is on display? it is a free admission but you may be haggled to buy a takeaway, which are very nice . Any nice Big Wigs in the world of art please pop in.

Best Wishes to all.

Winters coming

Again like most people I have been busy with all sorts of things which have kept me from blogging, but I have a spare Half an hour now and thought I would get something scribbled down. I did a festival last month which was good fun but not as busy as I thought it would of been. I also had a lot of gazebo envy, as my cheap one and whole set up was very amateurish and basic and even some of the small charities looked swish and professional. (note to myself, need to earn more money to get nice equipment).
Below is my little set up, and yes I know its not much , but its all I got.

 I managed to get a couple of pictures of my very rusty handy work, that said most people seemed to like them. Due to my normal day job I just get to do many fetes/festivals/parties.

As usual I spend a lot of time doodling, some in my sketch books and now days a lot on photo copy paper. Thought I would include a few.

I did a digital caricature of a Hi Fly Engineers wife using photoshop elements which seemed to come out OK but started my equipment envy off again as I don't have photoshop, illustrator or a nice wacom companion, or a lovely Apple Mac. Each time a new bit of great artist equipment comes out it would take me a couple of years to save up for it and then something new comes out costing twice the price? a vicious circle.

A couple of gift Cartoons I have done recently. The recipients Liked them I am told which is always nice to hear.

I occasionally knock out a cartoon of silly incidents that may or may not of happened. Never let the truth stand in the way of a funnier story.,

A couple of digitally coloured sketches.

Well my half an hour is up and She who must be obeyed will catch me and I will go without my tea again, so best wishes to all, and remember to wrap up warm that winter chill is coming.

Summer Holiday and Break

It Has been an age since I have Blogged or even got on the Internet. I have struggled with my Internet connection which went down and took Orange a month to get it working , but now I get an intermittent connection depending if the BT man has been playing as my phone line sounds extremely distorted and crackly? BT say its fine but I can pay £99 and they will come and check it? This all happened just after I had a phone call from BT offering there new faster service? I am waiting for my contract to come up for renewal before I bin the lot and go with Virgin.
  Anyway I have been busy and as always do a lot of doodling, below is a fun sign for the post ladies to put in their van, it isn't finished yet but getting there. I sometimes draw funny cartoon sketches of things that have happened albeit I stretch the truth a lot ( not unlike the news papers). I cannot show them all as I have got in trouble on many occasions as although funny, a lot of people would rather it wasn't shown.

A recent commission as a leaving gift, hardest part was cutting the mount and trying to get the nine crests small enough to print out digitally( would of took forever to draw them)

Some more caricatures of aircraft engineers with one of the companies we assist, it brightens there office up a bit.

 I have just done my first wedding for some long term friends(School 37 years ago) daughter and her husband. I produced a digital Caricature of them and a double mount signing board all framed in a white frame ( as below) and did the caricatures in the evening. I am a bit rusty to say the least but after about 10 ,I got in the zone and the rest seemed to flow until about after midnight when I realised its harder than you think sitting up straight in front of an easel for around 6 hours none stop! I did start to flag and the drawings suffered. Everyone was well drunk by then and all seemed to love them. It was all free of charge so I had no pressure.

I will not chance losing my connection any more so, by to all for now as I am off on Holiday down Cornwall way to chill out.

Celeb Cartoon.

I often work nights and on my breaks or meal time, I have a little scribble in the hope my drawing skills will improve? ( No Sign yet ,I hear you all shout)  and In my job I occasionally get a celebrity passing through on a small jet, which makes life a bit more interesting. I put the two together and draw cartoons of something that might of happened to them and if they are unlucky some of the other people I work with show it to the victims. As you can see below it was Richard Bransons turn and by all accounts took it in good humour (jolly nice guy).

 I  have not blogged lately as my internet has been down for 2 weeks. I will not go into the daily struggle to get it back up and running as I am sure anyone who has had to go through the call centres which must be based on Mars, knows how traumatic it all is and its a good thing its not easy to buy guns or bazookas as I would of paid them a visit!!!!! Suffice to say I am now off medication and the wife has removed my restraints, so here are a few of my sketches over the last few weeks.

The guy on the fence was someone I work with who had an unpleasant experience while out aircraft spotting so I drew a quick cartoon of it as he was trying to keep it a secret?

Well I have to leave it there for now, I hope everyone is enjoying the weather, best wishes.