Kelly went to a conference in Las Vegas. While she was there, here group gambled at the craps table for a little while. Since did not gamble, one of the guys in the group had her roll the dice for her several times and she won him $300. The guy gave her $25 for her trouble which she promptly blew on the drawing she holds in the picture. It was from a slightly tipsy street artist and you can see it is a monumentally bad likeness. You know what they way about ill-gotten gains!
This has inspired Kelly to start to share her art once again. She has started a new Instagram account named Betty Blonde Draws. She has her first three caricatures up there now. They are very good likenesses, but of the very quickly drawn ones. She plans to do more quick ones, but she also plans to spend some time to create some that are more thoughtfully drawn.
This is all great because she is kind of an amazing caricaturist. One of biggest worries is that the kids would have a lousy art education if we homeschooled. It turns out the had a fairly amazing art education including the study of art history. Maybe it was because I am so weak myself in that area, we worked harder to make sure we overcame my weakness. It is certainly true that I also received much more art than I had before we started the effort.
So if you want to be drawn, send her a picture of yourself. She is always looking for more material.
Betty Blonde #491 – 07/02/2010
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There is something really good you can say about Muammar Gaddafi without getting into any of the recent ugliness over in Libya. Kelly tells me that he is one of the funnest and easiest guys in the world to draw. She did this drawing for me very rapidly. The other really good thing about him is that you can spell his name just about any way you want and no one gets mad or corrects you because no one else knows how to spell it either. Really, I wrote this post because I wanted an excuse to put up this really cool caricature that Kelly drew.