On my favorite holiday I get to do my favorite thing under a white tent on the village green in Glencoe. Yeah! And I get to work in color on this colorful day! Thank you, Robin.
As you can see, I drew mostly kids. You can also see by their reaction to the drawing that they knew what a caricature is. Sometimes I hear parents explaining to their kids that a caricature is a cartoon of you. Not here. Everybody here knew the difference. So, let me make one thing perfectly clear (hmmm): a caricature is not a cartoon.
I enjoyed drawing the sophisticated kids there in Glencoe, but on this post I’m leading with the picture of a new dad with his ten-week old daughter…because it’s so funny. The reason it’s funny is that I drew him as the opposite of what he actually was. He was totally devoted to this baby, very attentive and a virtuoso with the pacifier. To make this point, I drew him as just the opposite–overwhelmed and confused. You know, how you sometimes express the opposite of how you actually feel? That’s it. It’s called irony.
He and I chatted about how calm and alert the baby was. Well, no wonder, with a dad like that. We also agreed that she completely upstaged him. He was in a supporting role and she was the star. And he wanted it that way. Lucky little girl. That’s why I drew her so big and solid.
It was a great Fourth!———————————————————-
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