Continued...

These last two people are twins. It is not such a good photo but... I always try to draw twins with different facial expressions that correspond to their personalities (at least what I can pick up on while talking to them for a minute or two while drawing them) the one on the left was the serious, shy one and the one on the right seemed very bubbly and outgoing.

I wish I had time to take photos of some other ones I did at gigs this month. Particularly the other night in Morrisville, NY when I was drawing predominantly black folks which was a lot of fun. I had a group around me that was howling at everybody I drew and I felt free to exagerate a little more than usual and do some "crunk"itures... but I was so busy that I didn't have a second to snap a photo or two... Some of the photos in these blog entries may not be representative of the facial expressions the sitter was making when I drew them. I'm not going to sit there and make them pose for 3 photos until I get a photo that looks like the drawing... I hope you can see a likeness in the photos. In the end, it is not whether the photo looks like the sitter but if the drawing looks like the sitter to me and to their friends who are also watching. If the sitter likes it that is a bonus! (People sometimes have a different idea of what they look like than the rest of the world, lol!)

End of summer photos...

This is going to be a very long post because it has been along month! This will have to be a cliffhanger...

I came back from OCMD a few weeks before I was scheduled to return to do a gig for Ridgid Tools here in Cleveland at Progressive Field. Lots of kids. Here are some photos from that.

In early August I started traveling to my college gigs. I put over 15,000 miles on my car in under a month and I now own one of (I am guessing) 3 Dodge Intrepeds in the world with over 200,000 miles on them! I went to TN, IL, SC, AL, WV, ME, NY, RI and NC so far. Still ahead are PA, ND, MI and CT. Here are some photos of my work from those gigs:

Many more to come in the next post...!