Caricatures

I learned about caricatures from Frank Kelly Freas, that great Mad Magazine cover artist who populated my generation with the ever grinning Alfred E. Newman. The technique here is mainly pastels, colored pencils and oil glazes, a method I learned from the celebrated Spanish Surrealist Gervasio Gallardo, who explained it to me while he was working on a rush assignment for a Time Magazine cover in New York City. I taught it to my students in my college classes, yet the complexity of the process was soon put out to pasture and replaced with PhotoShop and other digital painting applications.