Did these two fellas...Hang on they're me! Trying to get to grips with caricaturing and so please forgive me if they don't look like the same guy or if they look like me (although who would know...?)
When I was five or six, my favorite singer was Allan Sherman. I grew up listening to my parents' Allan Sherman records. They had his first five releases. I knew every lyric to every song. I knew the order of every song on every album. My Mom and Dad roared with laughter at Sherman's songs and laughed even harder at their six year-old mimic. But the funniest thing of all was that I had no clue what Allan Sherman was singing about. I had no idea that these songs were parodies of traditional and popular melodies. I didn't understand the double meanings and intricate wordplay that Sherman worked into each of his songs. I just thought they were funny songs with funny words sung by a funny man with big funny glasses.
When I was older, I remember being embarassed the first time I heard Ponchielli's
Dance of the Hours and sang the familar lyrics of "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah", thinking it was just an orchestral arrangement of the classic Allan Sherman composition. As the years went on, I heard more and more original versions of songs that Allan Sherman so expertly satirized. And I finally understood why they were funny.
My son grew up listening to a local Philadelphia radio show called
Kids Corner. The host,
Kathy O'Connell regularly plays "You Went The Wrong Way, Old King Louis" and has introduced a new generation to Allan Sherman. Someday, those kids will understand why that song is funny.
Allan Sherman passed away from emphysema just before his 49th birthday.
I visited his grave on August 11, 2008 - my 47th birthday.
When Herbert Khaury was five, his father brought a gramophone to their small New York City apartment. Young Herbert immersed himself in the music of the past. He would spend hours in his room listening to artists like Rudy Vallee, Al Jolson, and Bing Crosby. He began singing and playing the ukulele in his naturally tenor voice. Soon, he entered into a local talent show and sang "You Are My Sunshine" in his newly discovered falsetto voice. It brought the house down. Bitten by the performance bug, Herbert experimented with different stage names like Darry Dover, Vernon Castle, Larry Love, and Judas K. Foxglove. He finally settled on Tiny Tim in 1962 at the suggestion of his manager at the time. In the 1960s, he was seen regularly near the Harvard University campus as a street performer, singing old Tin Pan Alley tunes. His choice of repertoire and his encyclopedic knowledge of vintage popular music impressed many of the spectators. One fan recalled that Tiny Tim's outrageous public persona was a false front belying a quiet, studious personality. "Herb Khaury was the greatest put-on artist in the world.," this admirer said, "Here he was with the long hair and the cheap suit and the high voice, but when you spoke to him he talked like a college professor. He knew everything about the old songs."
Tiny Tim's big break came when he was booked for an appearance on the wildly popular
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Dan Rowan announced that Laugh-In believed in showcasing new talent, and introduced Tiny Tim. Tiny Tim entered, blowing kisses, and sang "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" to Dick Martin. For years, Dick Martin delivered the panicked outburst of "You're not bringing back Tiny Tim, are you?" to Dan Rowan at the threat of a potential surprise visit. Tiny Tim's performance led to many appearances on Jackie Gleason's variety show, The Ed Sullivan Show and Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. Tiny Tim released his first album in 1968, a collection of
Tin Pan Alley classics that were beloved by him as a child.
On a publicity tour in 1969, Tiny Tim met seventeen-year-old Victoria Budinger. She asked for an autograph and Tiny Tim was immediately enamored, although he was twenty years her senior. After several more encounters with "Miss Vicki", as he called her, Tiny Tim announced his engagement on The Tonight Show and Johnny Carson offered to have the wedding televised on his show. The wedding was seen by an estimated 40 million viewers. The cake was seven feet tall, and 10,000 tulips were used as decoration. The couple honeymooned in Bermuda. However, Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki mostly lived apart, and divorced eight years later. (Vicki resurfaced in 2002 as Victoria Lombardi, the girlfriend of convicted murder conspirator
Rabbi Fred Neulander.)
Tiny Tim's popularity began to wane as the years went on. He was a yearly fixture at at "Spooky World," an annual Halloween-themed exposition in Massachusetts, just outside of Boston. He also made frequent appearances on the
Howard Stern radio show in the early 1990s.
While playing "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" at a Gala Benefit at The Woman's Club of Minneapolis on November 30, 1996, Tiny Tim suffered a heart attack on stage. He was led off stage by his third wife, Susan Marie Gardner. She asked him if he was okay. Tiny Tim replied, "No, I'm not!", his final words. He collapsed and died after doctors tried to resuscitate him for an hour and fifteen minutes.
A self-proclaimed deeply religious man, Tiny Tim gave an interview to Playboy Magazine in 1970. In the inter
This is the closest thing I've come to a caricature.
John (on the right) has his brother's face, distorted by greed and treachery. Both men, history tells us, were caricatures of kings. Richard "spoke very little English and spent very little time in England (he lived in his Duchy of Aquitaine, in the southwest of France), preferring to use his kingdom as a source of revenue to support his armies"
John, on the other hand, "acquired two epithets. One was "Lackland" , because, as his father's youngest son, he did not inherit land out of his family's holdings, and because as King he lost significant territory to France. The other was "Softsword" signifying his supposed lack of prowess in battle
Apart from entering popular legend as the enemy of Robin Hood, he is perhaps best-known for having acquiesced – to the barons of English nobility – to seal Magna Carta, a document which limited kingly power in England and which is popularly thought as an early step in the evolution of limited government."
Source for quotes: Wikipaedia.
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Medium: Acrylic Paint and collage.
Ty Pennington of "Extreme Home Makeover" gets a surprise of his own.
Charlie Chaplin, caricaturing Hitler in the film "The Great Dictator"
The Fab FiveAn illustration of an eight-legged Beetle, done back in '04. Included in the book: "Beatles Art: Fantastic New Artwork of the Fab Four" by Linda Webb. I already posted this one for another challenge, but thought I'd be a good citizen, and recycle.
© 2004 Barry/Right-Hemisphere Laboratory
Janis!! I am so glad that this is our topic this week, since I have been unable to post because of my busy schedule. Either way, this is my specialty and Janis is my favorite caricature so far!
I´m sorry that I´m posting as much, but I love drawing caricatures... :)
Penélope
This is my first Monday Artday ever. Hope you guys like it. I haven't done a caricature in a long time and to tell the truth I've never been particularly good at it, so any critiques would be welcome.
Despite the on-stage jabs at each other, George Burns and Jack Benny were the best of friends. George Burns hosted several episodes of Jack Benny's radio show in 1943 when Jack was sick with pneumonia.
Jack and George had a running gag in their friendship. George had no problem getting Jack to laugh, but George was always stone-faced in Jack's attempts to do the same. One evening, at a party they were both attending, Jack pulled out a match to light a cigarette. George announced to all, "Jack Benny will now perform the famous match trick!" A bewildered Jack had no idea what Burns was talking about, so he proceeded to strike the match to flame. George observed, "Oh, a new ending!" and Jack collapsed in laughter.
In 1974, Jack Benny was cast in the film version of the Neil Simon play,
The Sunshine Boys. Just prior to filming, Jack was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was too ill to continue his plans for the movie. He suggested his best friend George Burns take over for him, eventhough George had not appeared in a film since 1939. George went on to win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1975.
Jack Benny passed away in December 1974. George was heartbroken. He tried to deliver one of the eulogies at Jack's funeral, saying, "Jack was someone special to all of you but he was so special to me…I cannot imagine my life without Jack Benny and I will miss him so very much." But, George broke down in tears and had to be helped to his seat. Afterwards, George immersed himself in his work, appearing in ten films before his own death in 1996.
He never got over the death of his best friend.
One of my favourite writers....
Crocodile Dundee, one of my old favs!
Brush pen, colored in Photoshop. Hope you like!
An animation I did a few years ago spoofing a well-known celebrity feud... serves 'em both right.
Click above image to watch the cartoon.
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I can't take much credit for this one. This is a celebrity caricature done by my best friend. He loves doing caricatures and has done them at several area art fairs, sporting events and private parties. He asked me to post this here on his behalf.
To see more of his work visit his portfolio site (which I built for him.)
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The new challenge is:
Caricature!
Try you hand at your best Caricature of a celebrity, politician, person of history, or anyone else well known. Here is a fantastic lesson in caricature drawing on Tom Richmond's site. Check out his other tutorials as well. And here's the International Society of Caricaturist Artists.
The "Candy" challenge is over. The new challenge is "Caricature" and ends on March 1, 2010. The "Train" challenge continues for another week and ends on February 22, 2010.
Fernando Vicente’s caricature blog is made up mostly of portraits of artists and writers. This Churchill is a rare exception, but I couldn’t resist the interesting sharp angle of his right arm atop Big Ben.
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By: Kev_Brett,
on 2/25/2010
Did these two fellas...Hang on they're me! Trying to get to grips with caricaturing and so please forgive me if they don't look like the same guy or if they look like me (although who would know...?)
Papa mundo (world Pope).
This is the closest thing I've come to a caricature.
The Fab Five
Penélope
One of my favourite writers.... 
Crocodile Dundee, one of my old favs!
The new challenge is:
By: John,
on 2/1/2010
Hey Kev! No need for apologies, bro — the cool thing about caricatures is there ARE no rules — everything is silly-putty and stretched and pulled 1000 different ways!
So these are both you . . . but the "you" on the right needs to lay off the jumbo burgers!
Rock on!
Heh, nice work Kev. The teeth are great and so are the smiles. The one on the right is more 'caraciturey' (ha just invented a word!) because of his disproprortion perhaps? They work well for me.
Thanks guys much appreciated. Will keep on sketching, learning and hopfully improving!
Thanks for the comments