How to Draw A Caricature of Jennifer Lawrence

ARTWORK COPYRIGHT Charles Weiss 2013

 start a caricature portrait consider the shape of a persons face. Then consider which features could be exaggerated. Jennifer has a slightly round face and slightly small eyes. Her full lips are a detail I would increase in size. Also, the hair is something I would enlarge in size.

 

 Jennifer Lawrence is an Oscar winning actress with a big group of fanatics who enjoy her on the movie screen in her popular role as Katniss in the series of "Hunger Games" movies.
Two versions of the final portrait.

Mayor Ford knocked off high horse

ARTWORK COPYRIGHT Charles Weiss 2013

The recent city council attack on their Mayor Rob Ford, has reduced his powers of voting, duties and numbers of his staff. He continues to suggest he will run for the mayors position next year?

Musky on the fly new art

ARTWORK COPYRIGHT Charles Weiss 2013

This is a new concept ofamuskie seen through a rolling wave chasing a large fly.
I think this is a unique point of view. The sun is setting in the background and reflecting on the water.
The fly is a large design about 12 inches long.

Repainting a wood carved Muskie at Vermilion Bay Lodge 2003

During the spring of 2003 I was contacted by e-mail through my old website

Nature Artists by Gord Bastable of Vermilion Bay Lodge. He was needing a talented wood carving artist to repaint his Large wood Carved Muskie.

I had read about Gord Bastable and Eagle Lake from a couple of articles by Burton Myers in 1998 Ontario Out of Doors magazine.

This carving was created by Bill Sitter of Illinois USA.

Gord had commissioned him to create a replica to represent a giant muskie caught October 1940 byAmerican Ed Walden from Eagle Lakein the Vermilion Bay area. The fish was a Canadain Record at that timelength 59inches, girth 31inches and a weight of 61 pounds 9 ounces.

Gord had taken the carving to a few sportsman showsthe previous winter an was amazed by the less than positive comments by the public.

I wasinvited up to the lodge to work on recarving and painting and share a week at the lodge and enjoy the areas assorted fishing and sight seeing. His letter reads. "Would be happy to have you and Diane come upthe last week of Aug. 2003. I will have a cabin available . I hopeto take you out in the cedar-strip boat myself for a littlre musky fishing. The wood musky looks forward toa new tail and paint job."

My wife Diane was unavailable for the trip. I invited my fishing friend Jim Elie and his son Mark along instead during the last week of August. We did go and enjoy some guided muskie fishing with Gord in his wooden boat, none were caught. Many were seen following. Gord was alostshoulderedout of the wayby Jim when he had a muskief ollow up to the side of the boat.

These are photographs that Gord Bastable took of the progress of  re-carving and re-painting the Giant"Ed Walden"Muskie. It's on display in the lodge for all to admire.

Who knows if another muskie of this size or larger is swimming in Eagle Lake today?

                                             Sanding and reshaping the tail and anal fin .

                           Starting to repaint the marking pattern on both sides of the big carving.

                                 Brushing on the clear coaton the finished refurbished muskie.

Pumpkin Carving, Scary face

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The eerie glow of candle light from inside the carved Face

The black marker drawing of the ghoul snarling face

Carving bottom of the chin

Carving the bottom of the chin

Carving the pointy ears

Almost complete with carving the face

Ghoul face finished

The carving was created with sharp kitchen knives, peelers and reference to a story in Wood Carving Illustrated.

Carving a big wood musky

 The side view of the 50 inch/ 123 cm length, The fins have been added as individual wood
pieces and glued in position .
 Showing the long teeth in the lower jaw, some are one inch / 2.5 cm long.

                                       Showing the ot the two pieces of wood musky shape.

Finished painting of muskie with spotted pattern

Muskies Inc. Back Calendar cover art step by step

ARTWORK COPYRIGHT Charles Weiss2013

 I worked up a rough drawing of a yellow perch escaping from a chasing muskie. I positioned the small fish at the edge of the mouth of the large predator fish to create a dramatic closeness between them.
I sent it over to Musky Hunter magazine. I thought this image would express the tangled underwater world of a variety of plants Richardson pond weed, and potamageton  etc.

 I  re-drew the scene on canvas  of the muskie and perch . I added the shapes of the vegetation and painted with Hookers green, Raw Umber and green gold and yellow ochre. The water has cerulean and ultra marine blue patches  and white added for bubbles.
I left the shape of the perch un-painted . I wanted to create a simple white shape of the canvas. The contrast allows me to clearly see the progress in the design.

 I  use a painted  plastic  head casting of a musky to compare the shape and details of the mouth and head in a similar perspective as the painting

I've added more colour and detail to the shape of the perch and considered changing the Yellow Perch to Bull Dawg Lure.