I should clarify.
Like - when I told a friend
that I had an A&E show, he said he watches
that channel, and I should let him know when it is.
The show we were
talking about is KVC-Arts,
aired on KVCR-FM, in San Bernardino, CA.
So when I say "The Human Canvas does PBS,"
I should say that I spent a late morning - early afternoon drawing PBS characters. KVCR is an NPR affiliate
on the FM side, as well as a PBS TV station.
We also launched FN/X.
a television station with solely indigenous
programming
So back to PBS.
Lillian Vasquez, Marketing Coordinator
for KVCR, was the first to serve as a canvas that day.
She asked for a Clifford (the Big Red Dog), and I
was QUITE grateful. It also became my favorite
of the Cliffords done that day.
I was a bit nervous
about having to draw exact
representations of things. This gave me a
practice session, and made me realize that Clifford is
close to the easiest thing (in the world of PBS) to
put on someone
Curious George, believe it or not,
was one of the more difficult characters to draw.
Just a little bit off, and it ends up being some sort of
cartoony bastardization of JoJo the Dog-Faced Boy.
Pictured below is probably may favorite of the
Georges I drew that day. And there were
quite a few OF them.
It's getting to where
I can't draw on people at a festival
without the EMT's getting involved. At least
they're not rescuing people from Sharpie
inhalation or something.
What was actually
the EASIEST to draw was Shiny,
It's interesting that this was
the easiest because this has more blends,
and more depth than Clifford, George,
or some of the others.
The first version of
Shiny went to Grant Wisegarver, Lillian's son.
His turned out REALLY well, though with his being
the first of those, I was still toying with
the idea of just doing faces
or "busts" of sorts.
I kinda wish that I had done
a complete drawing on Grant, like this one below.
This one MAYyyyyyy..... be my favorite.
Not only in how it turned out,
but in that she had every intention of flying it
proudly at her Senior Homecoming dance that night.
That made ME
even MORE proud
to have done such a good one on her.
But again - I soon discovered that Shiny
was possibly the easiest...
...And if you do one that's a bit smaller,
it becomes one of the OTHER siblings - Tiny.
Though truth be told,
they became rather diminutive
because I was drawing on tiny, tiny, arms.
One more (slight) variation on this one. Make it
a blue blend instead of green, and you have John,
yet another sibling.
As mentioned earlier,
there were several more drawings
of Curious George that day.
Including on some of
the Crafton Hills College faculty and staff.
There were quite
a few Cliffords as well,
and only ONE of this guy below, Elmo.
I tell ya,
Elmo was SO quick and absurdly simple,
I couldn't believe I had done it with such simple lines,
but there he was!
There are of course MANY
PBS characters that are wildly popular,
but might take a BIT longer to draw. All of
these were done because they were quick pieces.
The only one I took
a lot of time with was on Daniel Tiger here.
It was drawn on Lindsey Wisegarver. Lindsey is
Grant's sister, Lillian's daughter, and all-around GREAT person to have on hand at a KVCR event.
She's also a very willing canvas,
and enjoys the fact that she keeps getting some of the
Above and below,
Lindsey, Lillian, and Grant.
This is now the third festival for me to be at,
with three more in the relatively near future. Thanks to EVERYONE involved in such a great event, thanks to Lillian for having me there (and booking even MORE gigs for me), and thanks to Lindsey for letting us BOTH get our fix
for some REALLY cool blends.
And thank YOU for being the next canvas.
I'm NOT slowing down!
