From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Roy Makes a Caricature

by Roy Blumenthal on January 28, 2010

These three pics are from a caricaturing/visual facilitation gig I did for Standard Bank through the WinWin Group. It was a three-day job, and involved a looooooooot of caricaturing. I made about 78 pictures during the convention.

One of 78 caricatures I made in three days. This is Pam.

Photographer Craig Owen was taking pictures of the various people and stands at the convention. And he took some candid shots of me at work.

ArtRage 3.05 on my Asus R1E tablet pc.

My subject in these pics takes care of aspects of Standard Bank’s employee health. She tested my blood pressure (perfect), my blood sugar (not too bad, but not ideal), and my cholestrol (terrible).

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Caricaturing is a really enjoyable art for me. It’s really cool taking the time to hear about the sitter. The process takes about ten to thirty minutes, depending on how many people are in the queue lining up for their pic to be done.

And it’s really quite an intimate process. Many people have never sat for a portrait ever in their lives. So they feel vulnerable and exposed. I do my very best to set them at ease. We joke. We laugh. I ask them about their favourite things in life. When the pic’s finished, I hope that I’ve captured some of their personality in the painting, the line, the composition.

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A pic from my BMW conference on Mon 25 Jan 2010 — Karen Valle from Mini

by Roy Blumenthal on January 27, 2010

This is a pic I made live at the BMW conference. All of the BMW and MINI dealers from around the country gathered to put their ducks in a row for 2010. The WinWin Group put the event together.

My work was showing on two big plasma screens on either side of the main projection screen. Delegates were able to see me capturing the key messages of each speaker as they delivered their talks.

I’m not allowed to be specific about stuff I’ve heard.

But I *can* tell you two things…

Karen Valle, GM of Mini South Africa, told us some mouthwatering news. There’s a new Mini coming to South Africa that’s going to cause a major stir in the market. The R60 is an offroad 4×4x4×4 — four-wheel drive, four doors (plus the back hatch makes five), four metres long, and four seats (plus a fifth little one). It’s the first Mini I absolutely YEARN for. It has boot space! You can have four people in it AND go on holiday. Or to the shops. (I’m open to correction on this, cos I didn’t see the actual car.)

The other thing I can tell you is that the new BMW X1 is one of the nicest Beemers I’ve seen in a while. Not HOTTEST, mind you. Nicest. It’s good to look at. It’s compact. It’s luxurious. It’s a performer. And it’s going to smack the SUV market in the teeth.

This pic (and many more that I can’t show) was created live on my Rectron-sponsored Asus R1E tabletpc. I was running a beta version of ArtRage 3.06, which stood up to some very hard testing on my part. Congrats to Matt and the Ambient team. Awesome!

Take a look at Roy’s online portfolio at royblumenthal.com. And if you’d like to book him to make your next event more memorable, email him at roy@royblumenthal.com. Book him now!

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Happy 2010! (Jennifer in Bed, with Cat)

by Roy Blumenthal on January 1, 2010

The new year is upon us.

I’m looking forward to a year of prosperity, abundance, and living my art.

It’s going to be a year of release from old patterns and grimy people.

A year of openness to good.

May your year also be filled with learning, loving, and laughing.

This pic was sketched into my Moleskine using my trusty disposable Bic Intensity gel pen. I took a snapshot of the open book using my Nokia E71, then contrast- and colour-enhanced it using Resco Photo Viewer. Uploaded using Nokia’s ‘Share Online’. Shared on Twitter using SnapTweet.

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