Really Sweet!

A few months ago I was commissioned by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/ to do caricatures of FDR, Eleanor and their dog Fala for them to reproduce onto certain items of merchandise. Mugs and tee-shirts was what I expected. What I did not expect was the packet of caricature chocolates arrived on my doorstep this morning!

Actually it's the caricatures printed in (I assume) edible icing on top of the chocolate. The reproduction is great. Kudos to the chocolatier, The Chocolate Canvas™.  http://www.thechocolatecanvas.com
The reproduction is just as good, if not better, than traditional prints on paper.

  I showed them to my son who is home for the summer from college. He was impressed, but thought it was a weird choice to print old people on chocolate. (He's not a history major, and to be fair, he had just woken up). I just need to keep people from eating them.

Viva Las Vegas!

It never fails to surprise me the unusual places the ability to draw funny faces can take me. I spent the second week in January in Las Vegas drawing caricature for Sharp on their smart boards. It was all part of CES 2012, the annual Consumer Electronics Show. 150 geeks from all over the world were in town checking out new gadgets, gizmos, and anything with a screen. The drawing program I was demonstrating is more of a presentation tool rather than a tool anyone would be making serious art with, but it was fun for the people to see their faces drawn on the "VIEWMONGOUS" 80" screen (I'm assuming VIEWMONGOUS is an officially trademarked phrase of the Sharp corporation). Las Vegas was (get ready for the news flash) glitzy and artificial, but there certainly are less entertaining places to spend a week.

You can get a glimpse of me drawing here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA4Q9IfR6BA&feature=related