Mr Men caricatures at Intel Swindon

Geraldine from Intel in Swindon asked me to go along and draw caricatures of her team during lunch yesterday.
For a bit of extra fun she asked if I could draw everyone with various Mr Man character traits so using a bit of colour seemed appropriate.

With only a dozen or so people to get through and the novel brief, it was an unusual booking but we all had a pleasant and amusing couple of hours and everyone got a silly drawing to take away!

Live Caricature Fun at Ikea, Bristol

I had a midweek enggagement last Thursday to draw on the spot caricatures at the Ikea crayfish festival where I was providing family entertainment alongside a magician and an Abba tribute band.

A few sketches off the telly

A lot of caricaturists use celebrity caricatures drawn from photos to showcase their skills. Personally, I think it is somewhat disingenuous to use this kind of stuff to promote myself as a live caricature entertainer but I do spend many happy hours practising in front of the TV and computer screen.
Here are a few of my practice sketches.

Hugh Laurie as House

Mackenzie Crook

Bruce Willis

Morgan Freeman

Johnny Vegas

Liam Fox

Dara O'Brian

Lauren and Daniel's wedding 25/02/2012

Lauren and Daniel's plight made headlines around Christmas; they lost thousands of pounds when a wedding venue they had booked went into administration. All seemed lost but then, thanks to the amazing efforts of Stephanie Allison of Bristol Wedding News, a massive appeal went out to dozens of local suppliers to save the day and sure enough, within a short time, not only a venue but an entire roster of entertainers had rallied around.

For my part, besides sympathy for the plight of the bride and groom to be, I understood immediately the promotional potential of providing a few hours of live caricature entertainment for free so when I was approached, I grabbed the chance with both hands!

I went along for 2 or 3 hours in the evening. The party was a great success with loads going on and a very happy crowd which kept me busy the whole time. It was all great fun.

Thanks for asking me along Lauren and Daniel and al the best wishes for the future!


A couple of the Live Caricatures done at Lauren and Daniel's wedding.