Wedding Entertainment

Wedding Entertainment is very popular and knowing how to entertain your guests and match the right type of activity can be a challenge!

Caricatures drawn at your wedding are a fantastic way to entertain your guests with lots of fun!

Guests love to watch as they take their turns to be drawn by myself and we all have a lot of fun and loads of laughter!

Guests of all ages love the caricatures, from children to grandparents!

And they receive a wonderful memento of your wedding to keep and hang in their homes!

If you are thinking about entertainment for your wedding, please get in touch with me, you can call me on my mobile which is 0796 000 6799

Wishing all the new brides to be the very best for their wedding day!

The weekend was..

Very busy and apologies for not posting this weekend, hectic and a lot of traveling for gigs!

Here is a photo of a caricature that I drew on Saturday night, used my iPhone so apologies for the quality:

Inside the Shed

This weeks show...

Happy Thanks Giving!

Wishing everyone a HAPPY HAPPY day...

Have fun and enjoy the celebrations with your loved one's..

Santa Barbara

On our road trip in California the other week we stopped in Santa Barbara and I have to say, we fell in love with the seaside town!

When arrived late in the afternoon and as we freshened up before going out to dinner, the sun was setting over Santa Barbara, beautiful! The picture above was taken from our hotel room balcony!

The beach front is long and beautiful with a sandy beach that is long and leading up to the pier

As you can see from the photo above, there is a walk and rideway for people to enjoy at the back of the beach and a loverly green stretch of grass between that and the road

The picture above is front the beach looking back over to our hotel, on the right side of the picture, with the mountains in the far background. A beautiful place! Simply gorgeous!

On the pier you will find restaurants and gift shops which are very neat!

And in true American style, you can drive down the pier to the end to park and save your legs from walking! This I thought was a bit over the top! My thoughts would be to ban vehicles from using the pier, except for deliveries and emergency access and keep the pier a pedestrian only access.

But with that said, if you ever find yourself headed towards Santa Barbara, make sure that you stop by and visit! You will be so happy you did!

MAD art sale!

My good friend and all round super human Mr Tom Richmond is having a very cool MAD art sale on his website, so do not waste anytime, go there now and buy something!

Click here to visit the MAD art sale web page

Needless to say that Tom's work is VERY collectable and will grow in value!

ISCA President

I am now very proud to be the very first International President of ISCA!

The wonderful cartoon illustration of me above was created by my very close friend, Keelan Parham, while we were both in LAs Vegas the other week!

There is much to do and I will keep you posted as to progress but for now, lots of emails to catch up on after the trip to California and Nevada!

Jet Lag...

It's not fun having jet lag but it is a small price to pay for being able to travel the world!

Yesterday I made a mistake by indicating the wrong position of Alcatraz on my photo, it should have said left and not the right hand side!

Anyway, one thing that surprised me was the sea birds along the coast line of California! They were large and many of them and it was fun to try to and take a picture of them with my camera..

Here is one of the more successful shots..

Back to normality

Back home after a wonderful and amazing trip to California and Nevada!

Above is my photo of the Golden Gate Bridge that I shot on Thursday before we flew home, you can see Alcatraz on the far right and the city of San Francisco in the background over to the left!

I have so much to share with you and shall be posting more about our travels next week, today I am straight back into work and have a wedding this evening to draw at!

Arriving home

Today we get back from our road trip.... we have covered a long journey and driven a lot of miles through California and Nevada!

So unpacking and catching up, along with coping with the jet lag is on todays agenda!

But it is nice to be home......

LinkedIn

I am on the social networking site for businesses, LinkedIn!

Click here to see my profile page

Why not add me as a connection or if your not a member, it is free to join, why not do so and then add me! It would be great to connect with so many more of you in this way!

Hope to see you there...

San Francisco

Today we are in San Francisco doing the tourist thing in and around the city!

It is a great city with so much to offer, I am excited about shooting with my Nikon to get some cool photos if I am lucky enough!

When I am back in a few days time, I shall post the photo's here for you to see what I managed to capture!

So pop back soon, if not everyday to see what I am up to!

Mac blog

Here is the link to the blog about everything Mac related from Don McAllister

Click here

Don is a great guy and he has some interesting info on all the Mac stuff you can shake a stick at...

It is very worthwhile spending some time stopping by his blog!

More music

Another band that I like is Nickleback! They are a rock band and I have their Dark Horse album on my iTunes, it is a GREAT album!

Click here to stop by their website!

I have missed their current tour but maybe if they come to Europe, I may just go along to see them live!

California

Yes today we are in California on the last leg of our road trip. We are making our way up from Santa Barbara to San Francisco over 3 days. We hope to stop by lots of very cool places along the way and I have my Nikon D80 with me, so also hope to capture some good photographs!

Once we get back I shall share with you all the news and pictures that I am snapping up!

Cartoon man

A little cartoon I created in photoshop... just for a bit of fun!

Steve Jobs

Here is a little rough sketch of Steve Jobs, that I did directly into photoshop, using my Wacom tablet..

A song that has been...

This song written by Jon Anderson, he plays it on the video with his acoustic guitar, has been a part of my life for over 30 years and today, still is a real pleasure to listen too. I enjoy the way the lyrics dance around.. the tune is very catchy too!

I hope you like the song if you have never heard it before!

OS4

This month Apple are releasing the updated iOS software...

I will download and update my iPad with it as soon as I can and then I hope to give a brief report on how it goes and what I think of the new iOS 4.2.

It sounds great so I hope that I will be impressed! This shall mean that the iPhone and the iPad will run on the same improved iOS and this will release even greater potential for what the iPad can do!

Exciting times and precious days that we live in....

MacBook AIR

Here is a youtube vid of an unboxing of the new MacBook AIR from Don McAllister of Screencasts Online

Enjoy!

Friends & Steve..

Another cool friend who I have had the pleasure to work alongside with...

David Islip, professional photographer!

This is a great moment that David caught on camera at a wedding we both worked at!

You can stop by Davids website by clicking here

Be sure to have a look around his website! Davids work is fantastic!

Jay Leno

Here is a rough sketch of American chat host Jay Leno:

I shall be working this up into a finished digital painting once I get back from my USA trip! I will post it up here once I have it done, most likely early December!

Twitter!

If your not already following me on Twitter, then why not add me and join in on all the fun!

I use Twitter on a regular basis and really enjoy all the fun that it can bring! You get to see what people are talking about and you can join in with threads and topics!

There are many celebrities that use twitter and 'Tweet' that you can follow and see what they are up too! Very cool!

So if you have not already signed up for a Twitter account, well I suggest you do!

See you there!

Click here to visit Twitter

ISCA convention

This weekend the ISCA convention kicks off and will see 5 days of amazing fun and learning for all the caricature artists who are attending!

There is still time if you would like to join us for the convention!

Please click here to visit the ISCA website where you register to attend but you shall need to be an ISCA member, so follow the link on the website to join the ISCA and then you can click on the convention link to register your attendance to the convention!

We have at the convention a very special guest of honour, the fantastic Bill Plympton! Bill draws caricatures but is best known for his animated films. He is a fantastic artist and has had an amazing career!

Bill will be giving a seminar on his career and work and how it all comes together! Not to be missed!

We also have the amazing character development artist, Steve Silver, giving a seminar on character development and drawing! Again, not to be missed!

So I hope to see you at the convention!

Fly away!

Today I am on a plane heading to San Francisco!

This current trip is combining a road trip that my wife and I have been wanting to do for sometime now and also in the middle, we are attending the ISCA convention, that is taking place in Las Vegas.

We shall be surrounded by some of the most beautiful scenery in the world! We will also be meeting up with many friends in Las Vegas and that will be awesome!

While we are away we have the decorators in the house, finishing off the kitchen remodelling project! My parents are also going to be stopping by the house everyday so we can relax, knowing that our home will be safe while we are away!

So today we shall be driving from San Francisco to Fairfield for an over night stay before we start our journey towards Lake Tahoe, Virginia City and then Reno!

I was in this area back in 2007 but on that trip my wife was unable to join me, so she missed the sights of the area around Lake Tahoe.

But tomorrow I will be able to take her there and show her the beauty of the place!

We are very excited about this trip!

Music?

What music do I like?

I have a wide range of music tastes but one genre I enjoy and love is Country!

Country music has a mix of great tunes and lyrics that address life in a realistic honesty. I love listening!

How do I listen?

Well I have some country selections in my iTunes but I also listen to Country radio via iTunes and sometimes also through a radio stations website, where you can listen to a show live!

One such station is 106.5 WYRK

There are many others out there and I mean many! What I like about streaming a live show from a website, is that I can get a feel for the news on that station and also the adverts that play! I also enjoy the american smooth accent that plays so well over the radio! It is fun and interesting and as you may know if your a regular follower of this blog, I love America and always enjoy being out there when ever I can make it over the pond!

So, do you like Country? What do you like? Why not let me know by posting a comment below and even better, add me to you iTunes PING and lets have fun seeing what we like via this cool new feature!

My PING is Steve Hearn of course, do please add me!

Friends & Steve..

At events I meet a lot of other professionals and many become friends as we often discover we have been hired in for the same event. It is great to work alongside and with these people!

Here is one such friend who is a complete professional, Gavin Woollard, photogapher.

Gavin's work is of the highest quality and I have a great respect for his skill and talents as a photographer.

Gavin and I have worked together at many weddings and I am always amazed to see the photographs after the wedding to see how Gavin has captured the special day.

So please stop by Gavin's website and have a look at his wonderful photography!

Please click here to visit Gavin's website

At a wedding fair

Yesterday I had a stand at a wedding fair. This is an event that a venue holds to showcase wedding suppliers to couples who are planning their wedding.

Above you can see my display that I had set up at the fair. It was a success although the enquiries that I received were for dates that have already been booked out. A little frustrating but you can never tell how a wedding fair will turn out until the very last moment.

Here is a close up of the example caricature that I had displayed on my easel, which you can see sitting on top of the table in the picture above, taken with my iPhone so apologies if the picture is below par:

This example is a typical caricature that I draw at a wedding when I am there entertaining. It usually receives a warm welcome and with lots of laughter!