As a Live Digital Caricature artist, I am very fortunate to travel to many different places to entertain. Recently, I was brought in to a beautiful winery near the Amish Country, just outside of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for a company dinner.
I was told I would be entertaining in a ‘barn’ at the winery and my mind went into immediate “cartoon” mode and I pictured myself drawing next to horses! This winery, instead, had built a very classy banquet hall built in the style of a large barn, but with all the modern comforts expected at a top winery. I was amazed at what they had done.
After setting up, the guests began arriving and I began drawing them, while the music from the stage played in the background. For this location, since the barn was large enough, I used my projector so people could watch their friends and family being drawn while being served dinner!
This was a very fun job, not only because of the great employees who sat in my ‘hot seat,’ but also because two other artists were hired for the same event. Bob and Anthe were both hired to do their easel drawings while I did my live digital, and we had some great subjects, as you can see in the pictures of people I drew, below!
I also created a custom theme for them. Their dinner theme was Thanksgiving and so I made a few different Thanksgiving backgrounds to go with that. My favorite design that I created was the Macy’s Day Parade balloons! And the funny thing was, this was one of the more requested backgrounds of the night, at least from the guys!
I can’t wait to draw these guests again at their next event! Though I would have loved to have gone to the national caricature convention this week, I enjoy the smiles and laughs at these events just as much! To everyone who was able to make time for the convention this year, have a GREAT week! Wish I was there!
By the way, good luck in the speed competition, Joe!
