Here’s my painted watercolor version of the little boy and Dick van Dyke and a penguin.

This is for the family of the little boy they have adopted. The couple was fostering the child due to the actual parent’s drug issues. The child became available for adoption and the two 57 year olds decided to start a new life with a young one. This is for a celebration party for the adoption.

This was done with watercolor on board. Had a lot of trouble with the stripes and wish I’d used color pencil to mark them.

Just finished meeting of the Friends of Silver Springs State Park & got some work done!

The little boy I drew, I am told, starts laughing & getting extremely excited anytime dick van Dyke appears on a TV screen. It started while he watched, the film, ‘Mary Poppins’. The parents have shown him other videos of van Dyke and the reaction is the same. The boy is all of a year and a half old.

Penciled and prepped during the meeting this illustration of a young child person who has a fascination with the perpetual energetic Dick van Dyke. This is the prep before I add watercolor. I’ll post the finished painting tomorrow.

Also pencilled and inked a brilliant political cartoon, too. Ken Culotta called me before the meeting with the gag. Finish of that can be seen in the areas I post those. 😀

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Volunteering some Caricatures for Special Olympics Friday night!

I did a rare volunteering of my Improvisational Illustrations 🙂 to help with a fund raising event Friday night for Special Olympics . Thanks to Maria, Don and Loida for inviting me!

See each drawing for a bit behind each. .

‘Can We Finish the Operation Now?’.
Desimer works as a photographer and nurse.

‘Bringing swords to a Hog Fight’.
Ted has lived a full live and had so much to say. His love of armaments, including samurai and broad swords. He’s also known to go hunting.

‘Hai!’
Chris is one of three people at this event who loves swords. None knew each other shared the like of such long, sharp objects! Chris’ diet swerves from meat eating to vegetarian to meat eating to vegan and back again.

Well, as LinkedIn has been reminding me with messages in the past few hours, June 27th marks 37 years since I placed B-6 to acetate and started drawing caricatures at Ringling Brothers/Barnum and Bailey Circus World in Haines City, #Florida.

Starting four days doing my cartoon improvisation for a large convention.
This is Dhanpat, who is a member of the Economic Advisors for India.
We had a great time discussing economics!

Been doing the cartoon improvisation entertainment tonight for a private event!

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I figure you all have seen enough caricatures over the past few days. So here’s what happened AFTER the event.

After the event I did 3 quick watercolor illustrations of my hosts for the event. Here is Christine Ng of Adastra with her painting.

Been camped out at the Everglades Restaurant catching up on all sorts of artwork, some of which I’ll post tomorrow. Waiter Terry has been great before taking pictures with Swampy. So, I fashioned Terry as a variation of a project I’ve been working on here.

Here’s a better version of the cartoon below!

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Alfred is he husband of Valentina from my post yesterday.

Day 2 of this 4 day event creating these cartoon improvisations and the crowd is terrific! See each photo for descriptions!

Edel, from Ireland, was the last person I drew today. She wants to see alligators. I pointed her toward Gatorland.

Jorllette expressed her many interests in consuming food…. 🙂

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Day 2 of this 4 day event creating these cartoon improvisations and the crowd is terrific! See each photo for descriptions!

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Been doing the graphic improvisational caricature thing tonight!