A Glimpse of Our Booth and Our Work

This post is for those events that need to see us in action.

At the Douglas County Fair in 2010:

At the Lane County Fair in 2010:

Several happy customers:

Caricatures at the Douglas County Fair

Here is a small selection of caricautures that I drew while at the Douglas County Fair last week. I wish I had taken more pictures.

Included here are some new themes that we have added to our list including the knight and the bubble bath. The girl on the pig was one of four 4H members that I drew with their prize winning critter over the course of the week. I drew two girls on their horses and one with her rabbit. Too cute!

Also included here is a shot of our booth Tuesday morning with our amazingly massive and eye-catching new banner!

Caricatures and Our Booth

If you make it down to the market, look for us! I recently added the red flag banner to our umbrella. It makes us look just a touch more fund and festive! That's my honey awaiting our next customer. My caricature easel is on the left. Every weekend we hang sample balloons from our umbrella to dance with customers as they drift past. Our mermaid in the foreground is and especially accomplished lure. Last year one little girl wrapped her arms around our mermaid display calling out "MINE!" to her parents walking away from our booth. Needless to say they came back and got her one otherwise we would have probably ended up taking the girl home! I love when parents say that they couldn't see us until they were at our table but their kids could see us halfway down the block! They are lures. Hehehehe.


Here are some caricatures I've drawn over the weekend that I am particularly pleased with. This first one is a custom order for someone's daughter named Pheonyx. She is dressed in a Tinkerbelle-like costume while riding a friendly Pheonix and being followed by little pink butterflies.

This drawing is of two brothers. One turned forty and the other fifty. The younger one was visiting from out of state and had never been to Eugene before. They were alot of fun to draw. I always love it when so much much character sits down for a picture!

This drawing is of a friend of ours who works at a local coffee shop. Tony and I get out breakfast there every Satyrday morning before the market. It has become a little ritual and our day just doesn't start off right if we can't make it over there. She has yet to see this picture!

Caricatures This Weekend

We lucked out this past Saturday and had our best location yet. It certainly helped that the weather was bearable this time around! Here are a couple of caricatures I did this Saturday. I actually drew two separate couples in the wedding theme. Why I didn't take a picture of the first one, I'm not sure. It was so much fun though. They had requested that the groom-to-be be wearing a kilt! I love customizing the pictures to make them a little more personal.

This week in art!

I love these two caricatures! I drew them this past Saturday while sitting in the insanely hot sun at the market. I am having so much fun drawing caricatures again. I am breaking out of my box and the boxes that were put upon me years ago when I began my training. I loved when this girl requested to be riding an orca whale. Fortunately I painted one a few years ago and remembered quite a bit of their anatomy. I am working on a custom order at home of a little girl who will be riding a phoenix! Her name coincidentally is Phoenyx so it will be super adorable. I will post it when it is finished.


I love the idea of the reusable shopping bag but have not been able to find one that tickled my fancy. They've been too small, too plasticy (new word!), to gimmicky, too touristy... etc. So... with a pile of fabric in my studio I dove in and came out with these! The main body of the bags are from old curtain displays that were going to be tossed in trash by a local major retailer while the flannel details on the side were purchased new. This is part of the batch of product that I will be bringing to the BRING recycle fair at the end of this month. Fortunately they only take between an hour and a half and two and a half hours to make so I should be able to add a few to the stash.



My Tickled Pink and Blue etsy site has been doing well lately. By well I mean that I've sold two super baby onesies. They are so cute! They come with a little red cape attached to the back and a "super" emblem on the front with the baby's initial in it. I love taking my son out in his. He always gets smiles and comments. Of course he doesn't have a clue how cute he is! But I have hordes of pictures to show him some day.

Here is a customized onesie I made a couple of weeks ago. The woman who ordered it said that her husband always called their daughter Madeleine "Rad Mad". She intends to put the outfit on little Mad for Father's Day.

A Couple More Caricatures

Here are just a few more examples of some of the caricatures I offer:

The Business of Caricatures

I first learned to draw caricatures six years ago while living in Las Vegas. I worked for a very prestigious company there, Art Enterprises Inc. I had the opportunity to work in the Mandalay Bay Resort Casinos which included, Circus Circus, Monte Carlo, Excalibur, Luxor and Mandalay Bay of course. I worked with them full time for two years before finally needing to move back to the beautiful northwest. I have drawn caricatures off and on since then but only recently have picked them up again with a gusto I haven't known since the beginning!

This month Tony and I got our business incorporated, Synchronicity Arts, Inc. It's pretty exciting and opens doors for us for so many things in our future. We are in the process of applying to local festivals and events to get our name out there as awesome local artists!

These three caricatures I did from photos I got on the Faerie Worlds site of patrons who were there last year. I had fun drawing the variety of costumes and look forward to the chance to draw at the festival this year.







The following caricatures are a selection of bodies from my everyday list that you can choose to have whether or not you are dressed like this.