Fancy being an empress dowager in the forbidden city? Call us and Bam! Its done. This client ordered a caricature for her boss as the cucumber man – she said it moved her retiring boss to tears (we hope she meant Joyful tears). She came back and requested a family caricature and several other caricatures for her other boss and friends. Not only that, Ruoshi is now tutoring her daughter in art.
A customer who engaged us for a farewell gift and drawing ‘live’ at the farewell dinner commisioned another two caricatures. Its for her other boss who dreams of getting sand from Malaysia and Indonesia to do more reclamation projects in Singapore. Its an insiders joke, trading of sand is a touchy issue with our immediate neighbours.
The other piece is of her daughter who is in the national sailing team. She wanted to be surfin with the sharks. That was a fun picture.
This is the boss of an insurance agency who was a famous celebrity. The staff pool in to get her this special gift. Singapore is abuzz with the upcoming formula race in September this year which will feature the very first night race. We like the imagery of a united team with a driver backed by a wondeful pit stop crew with voluptuous race queens.
The full picture which included their building.
Setting the theme based on the interest of the main person helps to make a nice picture. The key person here likes running, so we presented the whole department as a running team. She is an expatriate and would reminisce her time in Singapore, so we included a simplified Singapore skyline which included the newly completed Singapore flyer and our national tourism icon – the Merlion.
More about this community project at: http://kamaldollah.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/caricature-drawing-workshop-at-apad/
The weekend (8 & 9th March) was a busy one for us. We were invited to participated in the Parkway Parade’s Art-A-Fair for the second time. This time we introduced speed colour caricature drawings on-the-spot, which was such a hit with the shoppers that we were busy drawing from 10am-10pm. Customers were game for exaggerations and they were fun to draw. It was satisfying for the customers and entertaining for the other shoppers that pile up behind us and because we were visible from the atrium there were many more spectators peering down from the balconies above us.
There were countless requests for Spiderman and other superheroes at Kamal’s station…
… cheerleaders, ballerinas and fairies aplenty at Ruoshi’s station.
We had help from Shireen (foreground) who administer the sales and we also featured our old friend and watercolour mentor Mr. Idris (background) who offered tradional portrait drawing with pencil.
Kamal was in hat and shades because the sun shines through the atrium at times, making it too bright to see properly. Looking like an artist with a bad attitude was just accidental.
Its official now. Now that we’ve launched our new logo at the fair.
An event manager at SAFRA requested for a rock and roll theme caricature for her client. We both liked it, but the crew cut is so unbecoming of a hard rocking rock star.
A group of students from a girls’ school wanted to make a gift for their band instructor/ conductor. It was a last minute request and they pleaded pitifully to Ruoshi. Luckily she was not doing anything at that time, so they were able to have it the very next day. Little did we expect their expressed appreciation for her understanding with a box of chocolates.
We rushed this order over the weekend for a squadron of the RSAF. Its a farewell gift for a CO and the initial idea was to draw him in the cockpit of F15 D+ jet fighter. His unit ensures that this particular type of plane is in tip top condition and I suppose he must have been a good leader that all his merry men wanted a caricature drawn with him on this occassion. It is an interesting challenge and I do not wish to portray a normal ‘Top gun’ theme that would be inaccurate for an engineer. Based on the descriptions of his occupation and implements they used, I envisioned a cowboy, so I drew a caricature of him riding the jet engine holding a drill gun wearing a safety helmet with a radioactive sign. They thought I’d draw him in a cockpit of a F-15 D+ and did not expect this but they all loved it in the end and sent us a nice thank you note which made the sacrificed weekend worth.
This is a big group caricature with 38 persons drawn.
This couple hit off to a right note. A French horn blower and a tromboner should make for a very nice tune.
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