Caricatures
August 9, 2008 - Richard Lorenz 60th Bday!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Aug.09, 2008, under Caricatures
Today was my friend Richard Lorenz’s 60th BDay! He had a big wing ding at his new digs near the Lake and Seminole borders. Guess what I did? Here’s Jeff, a good gun-toting American! Everybody duck!
After more than five hours of drawing, I only took one photo and it was my next to last drawing. I gotta do better than that!
August 8, 2008 - Marty Caricature!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Aug.08, 2008, under Caricatures
Volusia County Sheriff’s Mike Dye drove up from Deland to have this painted for his colleague who is retiring after twenty years of public service. Above is a photograph of the watercolor caricature I created over at Chelsea Coffee for Mike today.
I’m also linking this to Illustration Friday, since it’s subject this week is ‘Sail’.
July 26, 2008 - Caricatures!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.26, 2008, under Caricatures
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July 25, 2008 - Caricatures!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.25, 2008, under Caricatures
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July 19, 2008 - Caricatures!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.19, 2008, under Caricatures
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July 10, 2008 - To Volusia County!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.10, 2008, under Caricatures, Florida Attractions, Florida Restaurants, Sandra, Various, What\'s New?
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Sandra and I made our way to Volusia County this Thursday morning. We made a breakfast stop at the well-established ‘Richard’s Place’ in Ocala. There is a sketch of a fellow who was yapping on the cell phone. |
| We crossed the Ocala National Forest and made our first top at Shelt-Air private plane service within the Daytona Beach International Airport. While Sandra did her interviews for the magazine article she’s writing. I sketched planes.After this we went to DaytonaUSA. It’s all about racing and more than worth the cost of admission. You will get so busy at the attraction, that you might be like me and not even have time to draw a sketch there! |  |
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Later, I drove down to Ormond Beach and worked with long-time cliet, Jean Oertel, on a caricature at Billy’s Tap Room. Billy’s opened in 1922 and was thriving very well this Thursday night.
A tiny version of the drawing I did is to the left. The original is very large. |
July 9, 2008 - Red Skelton - ‘I Dood It!’
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.09, 2008, under Caricatures, Celebrity Illustrations
Working a way again with Turner Classic Movies on and along comes Red Skelton. I love his old radio shows. I join many others as a huge fan of the Mean Widdle Kid who would cause alsorts of mayhem. He would sometimes reconsider his daring deed and then charge forward anyway: “I dood it!”. That is the name of this 1943 Vincent Minelli film. In ‘I Dood It!’ there’s lots of great music and Eleanor Powell dancing, too!
July 5, 2008 - Glenn Ford!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.05, 2008, under Caricatures, Celebrity Illustrations, What\'s New?
While I was working I had two Glenn Ford films running on Turner Classic Movies. First it was ’3:10 to Yuma’ and then it was ‘Jubal’. I quickly did a sketch of Ford above.
I remember first drawing Ford as part of a huge crowd trying to pay their income taxes when I was about 14. It was for an my art class at Robert E. Lee Junior High School in Orlando. I specifically recall noticing how very big Ford’s ears were. Seeing photos as he got older those ears got bigger and bigger. I saw a photo of him not long before he died almost two years ago and there were those ears again. I sometimes wonder if I’ve been watching Ford all of these years or his ears!
