Riverside graduation party

Riverside is a posh suburb of Chicago with gems, by renowned architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, plopped down on spacious, well-groomed gardens.  This was a small gathering of family and friends to celebrate the 8^th grade graduation of a boy who was constantly overcoming obstacles like immobility & a speech impediment. He was very sociable, wheeling himself over the lawn to chat with his guests.  I have an amazing job:  I do what I love to do, get paid for it and then, to boot, I get showered by all this inspiration.

Thank you, Dahlia.

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Senior Party at Andrew High School in Tinley Park

High school seniors are—let me come right out with it—my favorite demographic for caricature drawings.  Proms are fun, of course, but there the kids are dressed up, they sit up straight and at dinner they try to use the right fork and, what’s this, oh a napkin. This party at Andrew High School in Tinley Park was about  tons of food to shovel down and loud music to dance to, whatever.  My camera doesn’t capture the hilarity, because by the time I’ve positioned the thing they’ve righted themselves to perform for the camera they way they’d been taught to perform since they were knee-high to a grasshopper.  And I mean “righted,”  because the first reaction to the drawing was that they fell backwards or sideways—below table height. I love it!!

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Active Minds at Lake Forest College

Before college students get to roast chestnuts by an open fire, go for a sleigh ride together with you, dream of a white Christmas, jingle those bells and all that, they have to face finals in the first two weeks of December. Ugg. It’s a time of nerves. To relieve the stress of preparing for exams, someone at Lake Forest College had the idea of throwing a little party in the hallway in front of the caf. There were balloons, coloring books and–bubble wrap to pop. And, of course, that famous caricaturist Whatsername. It really was a relaxed atmosphere and I like to think I contributed to it. I particularly enjoyed overhearing jokes, but I can’t remember any of them, except the one about Rudolph the Red knowing rain, dear. Thank you, Kate.
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Evanston Township High School

The seniors were already liberated. The rest deserved a party on the last day of classes. We had glorious weather and I was set up in one of the courtyards. I drew twenty-eight students, faculty and staff in two hours. Thank you, Nichole!
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Sorority Party at University of Chicago

A University of Chicago sorority hosted a Reading Awareness party, to encourage students to tutor the illiterate. I think. I didn’t actually see that part of the event. I was there to draw whoever sat in front of me in at the Reynolds Club. The were mostly majors in econ, math and physics. Quite thrilling, loved every minute. Thank you, Noreen.

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Christmas Cookies for Students

The director of a private prep school in Chicago commissioned this drawing. He was planning on giving each student a tin of his own home baked cookies accompanied by a copy of this caricature of himself. Can anyone doubt that the world is getting to be a better place? Thank you, Tim!
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Duncan Kids Picnic at Bartelbe Park

The Duncan Kids Academy enrolls kids from six weeks to five years old. I first did the picnic with Rick Duncan in Gurnee a couple of years ago, when he was just starting his programs. Now he’s opening an academy in the West Loop and working with very upscale parents . Anyway, last Thursday he held a morning event at the Mary Bartelbe Park at Monroe and Peoria, Chicago. There were games, refreshments, a fantastic trio of musicians and that famous caricaturist, mmmm, moi. I drew at least fifty kids, whew! That’s in just three hours. But the event was well organized and so it was one squirmy, puzzled toddler after the other, no gaps, which I love. The kids were puzzled by this business of being asked to look at this stranger with the drawing board and you can see that in the expressions I put into the drawing—because that’s what I saw. But the parents absolutely love these drawings.
The fabulous musician was Lia Nicine McCoo, lia.mccoo@icloud.com. She wore purple, you can’t miss her.
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