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WARNING! My work is NOT a simple digital copy, distort, colur and paste like some of the sham bucket shops out there. I do NOT do 1000s of images per week processed by computer, because my work is 100% original. Each caricature is a carefully considered re-arrangement of facial and other features, drawn and painted by hand on acid-free, artists' quality 130lb  Saunders HP Watercolour paper using artists' quality paint*, brushes, airbrushes and pens.   Some of the compositions above have taken a week to complete. I CARE about my clients and the commissions I am given.

*Tech notes: I use Winsor & Newton and Dr. P.H. Martin's watercolours and Winsor & Newton acrylics plus a little Magicolor, for those of you mindful of these things. Ink is usually Winsor & Newton waterproof Indian ink. Pens vary but are either crowquill nibs, or steel #4 roundhand calligraphy nibs. For some colour illustration, I use Caran d'Ache colour pencils on coloured Ingres paper for speed, but prefer the heightened effect and density of acrylics. The paper is stretched during the process to eliminate 'cockling' (which is the technical name for the wrinkling you get when you spill water on paper) and thus ensures perfectly flat paper as an end result. Brushes are #4, 6, 8 & 10 sable for watercolour plus whatever I have in the pot, #1 & 2 sable for Indian ink, and a wide range of portraitists' brushes (W&N, some Rowney, some Wrights') for acrylics. I occasionally use Bristol board or white card for some black and white illustration work. Airbrushes are Aerograph, although the technique has fallen out of favour at the moment for published work.

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