Water-colours

Offers a blend of tranquility to the pictures' of a pride of place setting, putting the owner and viewer in a quiet reflective mood. As with pencil and ink, water-colours can be quick products, yet satisfying for their transparent colours. On traditional textured paper a place, people, sports or animals blend sympathetically with home settings which may have taken years to create.

Bear in mind water-colours need to be glazed and properly framed to be fully appreciated. Original works to protect value and looks, must be kept out of direct sunlight and away from direct heat such as radiators.

Oils

Oils are more labour intensive and require long drying times, especially if a certain traditional look is required. Quality oil on canvas may take several months to complete from the stage of first drawing to when the final applied paint decides to dry. Oils are not for 'next week'! However the wait can be worthwhile. Modern oils can be in wide brush to palette knife, can be impressionistic or bold and energetic.

Unlike pencil and water-colour, Oil paintings offer a much greater range of sizes from miniature to vast; the final size a canvas manufacturer can manage.

Ink & pencil

Lends as a crisp approach to those first ideas which can capture so well, what you simply want expressed! A little friendly banter on a friend, refixing in your mind, a fading memory of a dearly beloved pet or situation. That crisp look may be just what is needed to fill those little spaces in the home or office where colour may look too busy. Line work reproduces well and economically, especially for short lived product needs. Affordable as gifts or surprises. Line work looks classic in most surroundings.

Cartoons & Caricatures

The idea of commissioning a cartoon never really enters the minds of the majority of folk. Perhaps cartooning is seen as a negative form of expression. Certainly many cartoonists within political and social trend forming arenas, spend long hours wrestling within their own heads in a follow up to long sessions in pubs and shadowy chambers, ghosted with political whisper. Pensions maybe sacrificed to cultivate dodgy friendships, make observations, analyse and evaluate information for those news editors who allow some free rein.

However cartoons can be positive, friendship forming and group bonding. A cartoon of a lead figure in the work place can be fun, focussing on amusing events or character traits, all far removed from shady political thieving and pick pocketing exposure which could result in the cartoonists imprisonment (depending on your country!).

Enough said. So you are thinking of someone to be cartooned? Not sure however on how to prepare your approach to the creator of "warts and all folk". Yes you should tremble. You yourself could in years to come, well find yourself coming face to face with your stereotype staring from some magazine lying on a doctor's consultation room table!

You must first realise that cartoons should teach us to laugh at ourselves, our involvement's and our groups, our desperate situations by comparison to others. Secondly, article association is the key.

Link your target to what they are known for and consider if he or she has certain sensitivities to be spared, but if you are planning a return jab, then this is the essential strength of a cartoon. Exaggerate with a little colouring, but don't tell lies! Take a peek at the "boss" in toons 2 and the "Master Blaster" from above menu.

Sharing Views. Put your intentions to your friends, introduce doodled ideas. Activity will soon begin within a mixed circle. Your doodles will be reviewed, added to and finally there will be a collection with highlights. A detailed background of the cartoonee will emerge for a final product with a story line of perhaps some past mishap. Identifiable physical characteristics will be finally agreed. One eyebrow is higher than the other and the nostril hair would make good shaving brushes. They do stoop as though well potty trained!

Material Required. Before I can portray your victim, er close friend, assassination or bonding is better achieved if I know what the poor soul looks like. To enable me to do this, clear photos will be needed, preferably current, not those of ten years ago from the times he or she was taller and with a full head of hair. Side views and full on please, to forgive the pun! ideally, head and shoulder shots and if they have a distinctive physique, a full body shot. Plus any doodles you and your cavern cohorts have produced. Where possible, you should supply photograph copies, not treasured originals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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TRADING TERMS

Quotations are given free of charge if the client is making an initial approach for a provisional price. A small charge may be involved if I, the artist or an assistant in my employ becomes involved in travel to visit a place or person who is the intended subject of a commission. Charges may be made if detailed research work is required i.e. historical detail or accurate truth of person or persons, situations to be cartooned etc.

Prior to any work including research the client will be advised of any costs to be expected, time, travel & materials.

A 25% deposit is normally expected before actual artwork begins. Deposits are not refundable unless they are particularly large and the work achieved is only minimal at a point where the client can exercise his/her right to withdraw, depending upon his/her unforeseen circumstances, or my failure to have given satisfaction.

Following quotations and research, preliminary sketches are always made which enables the client to estimate if the project in hand can be completed at their satisfaction. These sketches are chargeable and are covered by initial deposit.

Artwork remains my property until payment is made in full. However, copies can be made for clients own use.

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