Christmas Time

Recent drawings from photos.


Jolly Love


Accountant Love


Ferret Love

It's been a very busy winter season. Especially since I just got this guy...



Our new mascot Hoagie.

Still Drawin!

Had a gig over the weekend at yet another Fall Festival. It felt good to start drawing again after a stressful, yet very pleasing move this weekend to a new house in a new town. No, not Newtown... Springfield. Finally I have my own studio space/office which will serve as my headquarters. Caricatures, screenprinting, woodblock printing, painting, and crafts. My desk will be adorned with my Dwight Schrute bobblehead. Pics will be shown someday. But for now here are some from this weekend.







And I found this picture from Emily Anthony's blog of me cutting wood at the convention. So much carving, went right through my jeans.



I have the woodblock print in this photo, "Mick Cusimano" showing in Media, PA at a coffee shop called the Coffee Club. Stop by and see it why don't you. Coffee, caricatures, printmaking, what more could you ever want!?!

I wood have to say this is cutting edge.

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-Colin Harris

NCN Convention

I made it through my first official convention with the National Caricaturist Network. It took place in Raleigh, North Carolina last week. Only a 7 hour drive with Martha and we were there in no time. About 180 caricature artists made it out to draw, network, learn, and compete. I attended extremely informative seminars with Tom Richmond of MAD magazine fame about Caricatures in Humorous Illustration., Caricature 101 with Jason Seiler, and even a drawing from life workshop with Steven Silver! It was announced at the convention that there will be an official name change to... the International Society of Caricature Artists, or ISCA.


A view of the ballroom where we all set up to create all week long.


Marlo and Sean Gardner in prismacolor markers.




Woodcuts!


My woodcut of Mick Cusimano (a fellow NCN member). The print measures 2'x2'. I may someday post on my blog a tutorial of this process.


My wall.


Cut paper of me by Japanese caricature artist Kunikazu.


Friends Roger Hurtado and Emily Anthony. Yeah!!!

NCN Convention- Raleigh, NC

First day here at the convention in Raleigh, North Carolina. About 200 caricature artist from around the world are in attendence. We all get together for seminars, workshops, and lots of drawing eachother for an entire week. I am getting to meet all of the caricature greats whose work I have only seen online. It's gonna be a very event-filled week. Fortunately I have internet access in my hotel room so I can easily update with pictures at night or morning or whenever. So look out for some wild drawings. I gotta go to try and sign up for Jan Op De Beek's drawing workshop.

Fall Company Picnic Adventures

Crossbow glamour shot.

Went on a drive down to Dover, DE with friends Marlo and Debbie...



Drew a bunch of people that work at a factory that soley makes baby wipes. That's right.













I thought it would have been a lot more effective if we drew the caricatures directly on baby wipes. Maybe next year???

The annual NCN Caricature Convention in Raleigh, NC is only a few weeks away. Getting very excited... need baby wipes.

Fall Festival and Birthday Party Caricatures

Had a busy day on Saturday. A fall festival in the morning and a birthday party at night. Didn't snap too many photos, just these two.

Me by Kage Nakanishi

When you are a member of the National Caricaturist Network there are many benefits. We have a worldwide "Firing Squad" where you can post photos of yourself online and others can draw you. I discovered this amazing sketch of me was posted yesterday by Japanese caricature artist Kage Nakanishi. Very inspirational. I need to give him a drawing in return.

Sunoco Fundraiser

Finally got drawing again yesterday at a fundraiser event in Philadelphia for Sunoco. I was joined by fellow caricature artist Marlo Meekins. Check out her blog on the links section.



Then I had a good time afterwards drawing at the Rocket Cat cafe with my friends. I liked this picture I took of Jeremy.

Pool Parties, Weddings, and BBQ's

Here's a little sampling from some of the parties I have been doing lately. Lotsa parties... lotsa caricatures.









Just did this one last night. Great time with great people.

Birthday Party Caricatures, in COLOR!

This is a little sampling from a birthday party last week. It's been a little while since I have drawn in color at a party. It felt great to bust out those color sticks again.

August is going to be a crazy busy month. I have a good amount of gigs booked for the upcoming weekends. So I will be sure to bring my camera along to document.

For all of those who don't know, I got a new email address: colinharrisart@gmail.com

I recently purchased a Blackberry so I can check my emails when I am on the road. Trying to learn how to I can update my blog from the phone also. Look for some of that in the future.