My friend Ferly

Ferly my Friend in Art from Indonesia

This is a caricature of my friend Ferly who lives in Indonesia. We are friends in art and I am so impressed at how his own caricature style has grown immensely over the last while. I was a bit nervous sitting down to draw him because the caricatures he does of himself are fabulous!

The faces he makes are so animated that you can feel his personality come out in his FERLY drawings. One day I hope to meet him and we'll sit and talk art non stop!


Caricatures by Canadian Artist Laurel Hawkswell http://hilaurel.blogspot.com

Drawing at Twin Girls Birthday Party!

It's definitely interesting drawing twins! I really do see differences and I drew them differently but still soooooooo similar! We did a bit of an experiment: Their mom had a list made with all the girl's names on it for me to draw.

She placed a few of their friends in between the twins on the list so that I wouldn't be drawing them one right after the other. I tried to clear my mind of the first one I drew and really focus on what I saw in front of me and NOT what my mind remembered me drawing. There were some little differences but looking at this I'm amazed at how similar they still are!

Twin Girls with their caricatures

Caricatures by Canadian Artist Laurel Hawkswell http://hilaurel.blogspot.com

Caricatures for the Autism Society of Edmonton and Area

Edmonton's Autism Society had me out to their "Deck The Halls" celebration this evening. I had a great time drawing this guy! My favourite part of it is his smile!

Man with his caricature - love that smile!

Caricatures by Edmonton Artist me Laurel Hawkswell

web http://hilaurel.blogspot.com

Caricatures for a Friend's Party

my Friend and Son with their Caricature

My friend recently asked me to do caricatures at her dad's 70th birthday

party. All the guests seemed quite surprised hat they'd be getting a

caricature as a take home gift! When I drew my friend and was about to

see her caricature she said, "Oh I'm so excited! I've waited years to

get one of your caricatures! That's part of the reason I suggested to my

mom that we have you here!" I took that as quite a compliment. And it's

always nice to draw the whole family so they have a complete collection.

At the end of the party, when I say, "Thanks for having me." ... I

really mean it!

Edmonton Artist