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Artist of the moment…..HRH….His Royal Highness…Prince of Wales….Prince Charles….

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Been wanting to do this post for quite some time. Today we look at the artwork of Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, and also some paintings and pictures made of him. First lets talk about Prince Charles and his medium of choice, watercolour. The proceeds from his considerable artworks all go to charity. He has earned more than four million dollars from the sale of his artworks over the years! Awesome!

In this clip we see the Prince on an important commissioned work for the Royal Mail. He was asked to paint some castles. We see him working with his watercolours here, its obvious he has been painting on site for many years. His compositions are excellent.

His Royal Highness sells his originals and they range between $10,000 and $30,000. Prints can be found starting around $8,000. He also has a book out that features a compilation of his artwork.

Other very prominent people working with visual arts would be the President Medvedev, who had a photograph titled the Kremlin of Tobolsk sell for $1.7 million dollars in 2010.

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And don’t forget about who would be the Tzar of Russia, Andrew Romanoff who enjoys making art from shrinky dink materials that kids from generation grew up with in the 1970s and 1980s.  For those of you deprived as kids who never played with a shrinky dinks instead playing with battery powered stuff.First you the artist would draw and make a design on the shrinky dink, then bake it in the oven, then it shrinks. Price Romanoff has compiled his works into a book as well titled “THE BOY WHO WOULD BE TSAR. ”

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Further information on shrinky dinks here: http://www.shrinkydinks.com/

Here is a great example of Romanoff’s shrinky dink style.

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Lets take a look at some paintings and drawings of the Prince by various artists.

Here we have an offering from Andy Warhol celebrating the first marriage of the Prince of Wales to Princess Diana.

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Here we have a great picture by well known caricature artist Sebastian Kruger. The crown jewels certainly didn’t impede the Prince’s growth as an artist.

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Gerald Scarfe is a well known caricature artist from the United Kingdom I have featured before. He draws very funny pictures sometimes quite cruel of his victims. A Scarfe version of Prince Charles.

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Artist of the moment…. Political Satirist Gerald Scarfe….

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All of the pictures in the gallery are the work of Gerald Scare, EXCEPT the last picture, which was done by Sebastien Kruger.

The artist hails from the United Kingdom and was born London in June of 1936.

Here are some caricature drawn and painted by Gerald Scarfe in 2008. These were on the walls whilst you waited in line at Wimbledon.

A collaboration with the artist, sometimes referred to as the fifth member of the band, and Pink Floyd.

A great clip featuring Scarfe and the Victoria and Albert Museum and how it inspired him to an artistic career.

Average price ranges:  Working mainly as an illustrator I was able to find his work available in pen and ink, lithographs, and paintings. One work in pen sold at auction for $6,200. Lithographs available from $50 to $2250. Pastel range: $1,000 to $2,000.

He has done editorial cartoonist work for media companies in the United States ,such as the popular magazine the New Yorker and also Time magazine. He also worked across the pond working for The Sunday Times and many other magazines.

Another great caricature artist is Sebastien Kruger of Germany. Kruger is known for his paintings of the Rolling Stones. Some of his Keith Richards paintings are just amazing! Below is an example of a Kruger.

 

The artist is married to movie actress Jane Asher, the two were married in 1981. Asher dated Beatles star Paul McCartney for five years, the two were engaged to be married. After finding Sir Paul in bed with another lady she left him and met Scarfe in 1971. The couple have one daughter and two sons.

 

As a child the artist suffered from severe asthma, causing him to spend much time in bed. This caused him to draw as a means of an outlet both. He became a huge fan of Ronald Searle. For his education Scarfe attended Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. He also attended the London College of Printing and East Ham Technical College.

 

The artist has also worked with Disney, helping to make the 1997 animated hit Hercules. Scarfe was in charge of character design, and teaching the lower level Disney artists how to portray the emotions he desired.

 

Designed a series of five postage stamps featuring famous British comedians.

 

Scarfe has also worked as theater set designer.

This artist is just great! Who doesn’t enjoy a great caricature, even if they are mean. As a former caricaturist myself, you have find out what features are different than a normal sized face and EXAGGERATE the difference. A big nose, becomes a honker.  Big lips, become even bigger like Angelina Jolie with snake poison in them!  Another artist I learned a great deal from drawing cartoons are Tom Richmond. We worked for the same caricature company, not at the same location however, and he went on to become a great cartoonist working for Mad magazine.

 

Al Hirschfeld is my favorite of all time. He used to draw awesome figures with a simple line. He drew many sketches in pencil on paper. He would then draw over them with ink. A celebrity artist, yet because of his simplistic and elegant style a self portrait by the artist could be had for less than four thousand dollars even at his peak!  Chris Rommel is another great caricature artist to check out. David Levine was another great caricaturist working in a pen and ink style.

 

Scarfe is awesome just to show people how brilliant a life in commercial art can be. One can be sure he has brought smiles to millions of people that look down at politicians with disdain. I went to a show called Hogath vs. Hockney last week.  He is a throwback to a simpler time when the artist’s pen was mightier than a sword or gun. A critic didn’t like a work that Hogarth had etched. Well Hogarth didn’t appreciate his disdain so he reworked the picture of himself with his dog. This time a book was placed below the dog. The dog was urinating on the book!

 

How about drawing a caricature today! Despite your political association, DRAW BOTH PARTY MEMBERS. I would take this a step further and draw any political figure because you can compare them to other artists and see if they exaggerated the same parts of the face that you did!

Create!

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