<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004</id><updated>2012-02-12T20:57:21.473-05:00</updated><category term='Teaching'/><category term='Photography'/><category term='Graphic Design'/><category term='Sketches'/><category term='Figure Drawing'/><category term='Commisioned Caricatures'/><category term='Caricature Videos'/><category term='Cartoons'/><category term='Party Caricatures'/><category term='Fine Art'/><category term='Caricature'/><category term='Illustration'/><title type='text'>Caricatures + Fun Illustrations + Designs by Brian Vasilik</title><subtitle type='html'>Yes I draw for a Living. Caricature Artist. Illustrator. Designer. Unique art creations for private and corporate events. 
Live drawings or commissioned gifts. 
Birthdays, Summer Picnics, Trade Shows, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, College Events, Store Openings, Proms, Conventions, Weddings, Caricature-O-Grams, Pets, Videographer</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>253</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-8646129539847356839</id><published>2012-02-11T15:07:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2012-02-12T20:57:21.492-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Valentines Week Caricatures</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPV1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 557px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPV1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPV2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 660px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPV2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPV3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 556px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPV3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPV4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 619px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPV4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPV5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 556px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPV5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-8646129539847356839?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/8646129539847356839/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=8646129539847356839' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/8646129539847356839'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/8646129539847356839'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2012/02/valentines-day-weekend-caricatures.html' title='Valentines Week Caricatures'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-3708709626692496293</id><published>2012-02-02T10:52:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-02-02T11:08:32.994-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Wedding Caricatures at Primland Resort</title><content type='html'>I had the pleasure of drawing caricatures for the wedding of Heather &amp; Charlie. It was held at the beautiful Primland Resort in Meadows of Dan, VA. Ben, of Essential Sunsine Photography, posted a few photos of the wedding which I was captured.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.essentialsunshine.com/weddings/heather-charlie-primland-resort-wedding-photographer/"&gt; Here are Ben's other photos of the wedding.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/HC_blog_17.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 283px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/HC_blog_17.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CUp.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 425px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CUp.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-3708709626692496293?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/3708709626692496293/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=3708709626692496293' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3708709626692496293'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3708709626692496293'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2012/02/wedding-caricatures-at-primland-resort.html' title='Wedding Caricatures at Primland Resort'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-1204627944557728157</id><published>2012-01-31T14:48:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-31T14:57:48.330-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Video of me drawing!</title><content type='html'>I was at the Grove Park Inn last weekend and a customer made this video of me drawing his caricature. He is John Speier and is a wedding DJ. Here is his website http://www.musicmakesithappen.org/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="425" height="246" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LMcPvCu0RtA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-1204627944557728157?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/1204627944557728157/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=1204627944557728157' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/1204627944557728157'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/1204627944557728157'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2012/01/video-of-me-drawing.html' title='Video of me drawing!'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/LMcPvCu0RtA/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-2101856634029026409</id><published>2012-01-26T09:16:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-26T09:25:05.210-05:00</updated><title type='text'>2011 ISCA Convention Video</title><content type='html'>I attended the International Society of Caricature Artists convention in Florida this past November. This video is mostly taken in the ballroom where all the artists draw caricatures of each other. Included are some shots of the "Likeness Competition" and "Speed Competition" and "Retail Competition". If you want to become a better caricature artist join this organization. Go to Caricature.org to learn more. Only members can attend the annual convention. I have improved my skills immensely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="239"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=35669725&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=1&amp;amp;color=00ADEF&amp;amp;fullscreen=1&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;loop=0" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=35669725&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=1&amp;amp;color=00ADEF&amp;amp;fullscreen=1&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="239"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-2101856634029026409?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/2101856634029026409/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=2101856634029026409' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2101856634029026409'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2101856634029026409'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2012/01/2011-isca-convention-video.html' title='2011 ISCA Convention Video'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-1945959629828304380</id><published>2012-01-13T11:56:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-13T12:09:34.594-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Family Caricatures</title><content type='html'>Here are two pieces I did for the holidays. Colored with watercolor washes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/5FamilyColor.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 536px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/5FamilyColor.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/4FBWsm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 541px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/4FBWsm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/3JMM.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 443px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/3JMM.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/1boysSm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 635px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/1boysSm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2aIMG_1806_r.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 425px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2aIMG_1806_r.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-1945959629828304380?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/1945959629828304380/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=1945959629828304380' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/1945959629828304380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/1945959629828304380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2012/01/family-caricatures.html' title='Family Caricatures'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-5078918058765187729</id><published>2011-12-17T11:44:00.008-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-17T12:34:21.061-05:00</updated><title type='text'>End of Year Caricature</title><content type='html'>I have been busy drawing live caricatures as 2011 nears an end. My travels for events have taken me to a 90th birthday party in Greenville-South Carolina, a company sales meeting in Kingsport-Tennessee, a wedding in Chapel Hill-North Carolina and I am off to a Christmas party in Spartanburg-South Carolina today. Below is a caricature I did at the Grove Park Inn Resort &amp; Spa in Asheville, North Carolina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GP12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 650px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GP12.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-5078918058765187729?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/5078918058765187729/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=5078918058765187729' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5078918058765187729'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5078918058765187729'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/12/end-of-year-caricature.html' title='End of Year Caricature'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-2589241247620853912</id><published>2011-12-13T11:36:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-13T11:50:00.992-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Wedding Couple Caricature</title><content type='html'>Here is a commissioned caricature for a wedding couple. Shown is my very ruff initial sketch and a cleaned up version I showed the client. In the inked final I made some more changes like the perspective of the sofa and moved the nurse hat and his cheese. Watercolors were used. At the rehearsal dinner the illustration was presented and I drew live caricatures of the guests.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/NW2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 480px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/NW2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/NW1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 546px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/NW1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/NW3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 547px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/NW3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/NW4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 529px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/NW4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/NW5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 537px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/NW5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/NW6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 313px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/NW6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/NW7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 318px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/NW7.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/NW8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 755px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/NW8.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/NW9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 703px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/NW9.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-2589241247620853912?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/2589241247620853912/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=2589241247620853912' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2589241247620853912'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2589241247620853912'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/12/newlywed-couple-caricature.html' title='Wedding Couple Caricature'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-7928961350773907031</id><published>2011-11-30T11:56:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-06T19:51:33.627-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Florida ISCA Caricatures</title><content type='html'>Back from the ISCA convention held at the Tradewinds Hotel at St Pete Beach, Florida. Here I am next to my wall of caricatures. For the first time I made some silhouette caricatures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 735px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA01.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 300px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA02.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 503px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA03.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 435px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA04.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA05.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 604px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA05.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA06.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 718px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA06.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA07.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 597px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA07.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA08.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 455px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA08.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA09.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 549px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA09.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 722px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA010.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 412px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA011.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 539px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA012.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 545px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA013.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 576px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11ISCA014.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-7928961350773907031?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/7928961350773907031/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=7928961350773907031' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7928961350773907031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7928961350773907031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/11/florida-caricatures.html' title='Florida ISCA Caricatures'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-4001204873601137491</id><published>2011-11-06T13:33:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-06T13:52:41.799-05:00</updated><title type='text'>20th Annual ISCA Convention</title><content type='html'>I will be attending the International Society of Caricature Artists (ISCA) convention in St Pete Beach, Florida from November 13th - 18th. I always have fun staying up late drawing caricatures of fellow ISCA artists. Since 2006 I have attended all the annual conventions. &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://caricature.org/caricature_convention.php?id=11"&gt; Here is a link to this year's event.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Below is a fun video put together by Robert Bauer of Goofy Faces. He used some of the video I shot at the previous years convention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="425" height="239" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nbdk2iTI-rc?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-4001204873601137491?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/4001204873601137491/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=4001204873601137491' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4001204873601137491'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4001204873601137491'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/11/20th-annual-isca-convention.html' title='20th Annual ISCA Convention'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/nbdk2iTI-rc/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-4545042874793004058</id><published>2011-10-18T12:41:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-19T16:40:42.693-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Group Caricature for Company Retreat</title><content type='html'>This company was having a retreat and wanted a fun caricature illustration to be presented. The president is in the center saying "Let's go here". Surrounding him are his hard working employees. It was fun personalizing each person. The illustration is 18" by 24" and I rendered it in indian ink and watercolor washes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CleanedUpSm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 313px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CleanedUpSm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Closeup4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 328px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Closeup4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Closeup3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 413px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Closeup3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Closeup2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 368px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Closeup2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Closeup1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 391px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Closeup1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-4545042874793004058?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/4545042874793004058/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=4545042874793004058' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4545042874793004058'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4545042874793004058'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/10/company-caricature-illustration.html' title='Group Caricature for Company Retreat'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-1633163005048682896</id><published>2011-10-05T11:46:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-05T12:01:48.588-04:00</updated><title type='text'>American Society of Interior Designers</title><content type='html'>The American Society of Interior Designers hosted their South East Chapter Fall Conference here in Asheville. They asked me to draw gift caricatures of the presenting speakers to give as a thank you. Each one was 11" by 14"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ASID1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 541px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ASID1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AsID2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 546px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AsID2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ASID3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 542px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ASID3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ASID4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 546px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ASID4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ASID5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 539px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ASID5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ASID6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 538px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ASID6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-1633163005048682896?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/1633163005048682896/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=1633163005048682896' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/1633163005048682896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/1633163005048682896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/10/american-society-of-interior-designers.html' title='American Society of Interior Designers'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-7191627429613395637</id><published>2011-09-27T19:13:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-27T19:19:27.633-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Portrait with some exaggeration</title><content type='html'>I drew this from someone's photograph. Actually it was off a cell phone. I call it a portrait with some exaggeration. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPIPortrait.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 556px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPIPortrait.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-7191627429613395637?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/7191627429613395637/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=7191627429613395637' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7191627429613395637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7191627429613395637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/09/portrait-with-some-exaggeration.html' title='Portrait with some exaggeration'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-8030935929418853392</id><published>2011-09-15T14:34:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-15T14:38:29.362-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Caricature Cake Topper</title><content type='html'>You can get your caricature on top of your wedding cake. The bride contacted me and sent photos I needed to create the illustration. It was a fun project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/WeddingTopperFullSm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 510px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/WeddingTopperFullSm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CouPhoto.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 611px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CouPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-8030935929418853392?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/8030935929418853392/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=8030935929418853392' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/8030935929418853392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/8030935929418853392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/09/caricature-cake-topper.html' title='Caricature Cake Topper'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-1791551676718187786</id><published>2011-09-05T12:23:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-05T12:37:10.445-04:00</updated><title type='text'>LAAFF 2011</title><content type='html'>The Lexington Avenue Arts and Fun Festival was this past weekend. Met a lot of locals and people from out of town. Here are two couples I drew.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/3LAAFF11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 717px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/3LAAFF11.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/4LAAFF11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 550px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/4LAAFF11.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2LAAFF11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 546px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2LAAFF11.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/1LAAFF11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 641px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/1LAAFF11.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-1791551676718187786?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/1791551676718187786/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=1791551676718187786' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/1791551676718187786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/1791551676718187786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/09/laaff-2011.html' title='LAAFF 2011'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-5752258586732915948</id><published>2011-08-31T22:38:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-31T22:43:45.954-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Altec Picnic</title><content type='html'>Here is a fun exaggerated caricature from this weekend. I drew in Burnsville,NC at the Altec company picnic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Burn2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 561px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Burn2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Burn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:425px; height: 583px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Burn.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Burn1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 342px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Burn1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-5752258586732915948?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/5752258586732915948/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=5752258586732915948' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5752258586732915948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5752258586732915948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/08/altec-picnic.html' title='Altec Picnic'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-703322650697955797</id><published>2011-08-24T09:40:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-24T09:52:42.082-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Asheville Dog</title><content type='html'>The weather has been nice lately so I went downtown to draw. Without their knowing I drew a couple's dog as they eat at a restaurant.  They liked the results.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AsheDog1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 799px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AsheDog1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AsheDog2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 716px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AsheDog2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AsheDog4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 688px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AsheDog4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-703322650697955797?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/703322650697955797/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=703322650697955797' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/703322650697955797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/703322650697955797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/08/asheville-dog.html' title='Asheville Dog'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-5293976562961239978</id><published>2011-08-01T20:23:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-13T12:09:51.824-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Bele Chere 2011 Caricatures</title><content type='html'>Here are a few caricatures I drew at Asheville's Bele Chere festival this past weekend. Of course it was hot, sweaty and busy.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BC25.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 620px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BC25.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BC15.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 546px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BC15.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BC45.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 586px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BC45.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BC35.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 519px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BC35.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-5293976562961239978?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/5293976562961239978/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=5293976562961239978' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5293976562961239978'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5293976562961239978'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/08/bele-chere-2001-caricatures.html' title='Bele Chere 2011 Caricatures'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-3395528459821279206</id><published>2011-07-25T18:10:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-04T12:30:12.005-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fine Art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Illustration'/><title type='text'>Watercolor for All Souls</title><content type='html'>The All Souls Counseling Center here in Asheville asked me to paint a watercolor for them. There are two flowering trees on the front landscaping. Unfortunately they decided not to bloom this season. I used my imagination when I did the painting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AllSouls1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 331px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AllSouls1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AllSouls2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AllSouls2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-3395528459821279206?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/3395528459821279206/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=3395528459821279206' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3395528459821279206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3395528459821279206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/07/watercolor-for-all-souls.html' title='Watercolor for All Souls'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-4321173827210584205</id><published>2011-07-05T15:26:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-13T12:09:51.824-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>5th Year Anniversary  to my Art Blog</title><content type='html'>I started this blog over 5 years ago! Thanks for everyone who has visited. Here are some recent 4th of July live event caricatures. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2BE11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 350px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2BE11.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/3BE11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 541px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/3BE11.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/4BE11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 584px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/4BE11.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/5BE11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 731px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/5BE11.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/6BE11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 462px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/6BE11.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/7BE11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 320px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/7BE11.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-4321173827210584205?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/4321173827210584205/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=4321173827210584205' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4321173827210584205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4321173827210584205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/07/5th-year-anniversary-to-my-art-blog.html' title='5th Year Anniversary  to my Art Blog'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-2807558262807559302</id><published>2011-05-23T13:10:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-13T12:09:51.824-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Commisioned Caricatures'/><title type='text'>Montreat Chairman Caricature</title><content type='html'>This was done for Montreat College in Black Mountain, NC. The Chairman of the board was leaving his position. As a gift of appreciation this watercolor caricature was given to him. Included in the illustration were some personal references. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/MontreatCsm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 539px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/MontreatCsm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/MontreatSketchSm2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 537px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/MontreatSketchSm2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11M.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 296px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/11M.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-2807558262807559302?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/2807558262807559302/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=2807558262807559302' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2807558262807559302'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2807558262807559302'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/05/montreat-chairman-caricature.html' title='Montreat Chairman Caricature'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-1165737471350257734</id><published>2011-05-16T17:48:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-13T12:10:09.027-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Commisioned Caricatures'/><title type='text'>Caricatures from Photos</title><content type='html'>I can draw your caricature illustration from your photograph! Here is a recently finished project. The color was done with pencils. I also saved the black line drawing which was drawn with a Faber-Castell PITT art brush pen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/coupleSm-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 339px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/coupleSm-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2681.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 333px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2681.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/jonandmelissa.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/jonandmelissa.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-1165737471350257734?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/1165737471350257734/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=1165737471350257734' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/1165737471350257734'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/1165737471350257734'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/05/caricatures-from-photos.html' title='Caricatures from Photos'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-3292017540704742040</id><published>2011-05-01T00:19:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-13T12:10:17.109-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><title type='text'>Reddit</title><content type='html'>Met Steve Huffman (co-founder of Reddit.com) this evening. Hi Steve. I drew a caricature of the Reddit logo for him and here is another version.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Reddit.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 375px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Reddit.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-3292017540704742040?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/3292017540704742040/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=3292017540704742040' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3292017540704742040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3292017540704742040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/05/reddit.html' title='Reddit'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-1121094638706545576</id><published>2011-04-28T12:33:00.008-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-13T12:10:28.712-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Wedding at the Biltmore Estate</title><content type='html'>I always enjoy drawing at weddings in the Spring. Especially at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. Here are a few of my drawings at Brittany's and Brad's wedding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=196690350368055&amp;set=at.196689833701440.36358.113643248672766.649132564&amp;type=1&amp;theater&lt;br /&gt;"&gt;Here is the original photo of the wedding couple holding their caricature (photo by Regina Holder).&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CropWedding.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 428px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CropWedding.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/wedding3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 263px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/wedding3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/wedding2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 272px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/wedding2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/wedding4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 318px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/wedding4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/wedding5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 327px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/wedding5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-1121094638706545576?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/1121094638706545576/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=1121094638706545576' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/1121094638706545576'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/1121094638706545576'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/04/wedding-at-biltmore-estate.html' title='Wedding at the Biltmore Estate'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-3874020324248899029</id><published>2011-04-28T12:14:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-13T12:10:28.713-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>University of North Carolina Asheville Caricatures</title><content type='html'>Drawing caricatures ay UNCA of Asheville.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/UNCA1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 567px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/UNCA1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/UNCA2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 589px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/UNCA2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/UNCA3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 567px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/UNCA3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/UNCA0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 562px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/UNCA0.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/UNCA4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 333px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/UNCA4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/UNCA5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 311px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/UNCA5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-3874020324248899029?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/3874020324248899029/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=3874020324248899029' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3874020324248899029'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3874020324248899029'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/04/university-of-north-carolina-asheville.html' title='University of North Carolina Asheville Caricatures'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-5510612017931521279</id><published>2011-04-15T13:27:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-13T12:09:51.826-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Caldwell Community College Caricatures</title><content type='html'>I draw at a lot of colleges in the Spring. Here are some live caricatures from a recent event.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2633sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 546px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2633sm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2632sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 546px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2632sm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2631sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:425px; height: 537px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2631sm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2630sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 538px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2630sm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2629sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 322px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2629sm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2628sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 587px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2628sm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2625sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 590px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2625sm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2627sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 545px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2627sm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2623sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 312px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2623sm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2622sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 334px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2622sm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-5510612017931521279?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/5510612017931521279/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=5510612017931521279' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5510612017931521279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5510612017931521279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/04/caldwell-community-college-caricatures.html' title='Caldwell Community College Caricatures'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-4040392742707727524</id><published>2011-03-14T21:35:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-04T12:30:12.006-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fine Art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Illustration'/><title type='text'>Lodge Watercolors</title><content type='html'>Commissioned watercolors for the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain,NC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/aIMG_2565.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 275px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/aIMG_2565.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/aIMG_2564.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 282px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/aIMG_2564.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-4040392742707727524?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/4040392742707727524/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=4040392742707727524' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4040392742707727524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4040392742707727524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/03/lodge-watercolors.html' title='Lodge Watercolors'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-4871904172071571118</id><published>2011-03-13T12:32:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-13T12:10:43.495-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fine Art'/><title type='text'>Apple Portrait</title><content type='html'>A more formal portrait. I did exaggerate the features subtly to bring out her personality. Rendered with Faber Castell PITT markers and black pencil. Altered the rendering in Photoshop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ApplePortrait.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 513px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ApplePortrait.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-4871904172071571118?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/4871904172071571118/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=4871904172071571118' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4871904172071571118'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4871904172071571118'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/03/apple-portrait.html' title='Apple Portrait'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-7445165693459000769</id><published>2011-02-28T16:39:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-28T18:18:03.330-05:00</updated><title type='text'>New Marker</title><content type='html'>I am trying out a new marker for my live caricature sketches. On the left is the Markette Dixon marker which I have been using for the past five years. The other marker is the Fine Tip Chartpak marker that I am giving a try. These caricature drawings were made with the Chartpak marker. It does not dry out as quickly as the Markette and I can get a variety of line widths. I did find the tip of the Chartpak is not as flexible as the Markette.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/markers.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 336px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/markers.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/tips.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 421px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/tips.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2534sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 660px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2534sm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2533sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 539px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2533sm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2536sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 622px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2536sm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2535sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 556px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2535sm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-7445165693459000769?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/7445165693459000769/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=7445165693459000769' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7445165693459000769'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7445165693459000769'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-marker-pen.html' title='New Marker'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-4464147681950212099</id><published>2011-02-13T12:49:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-23T11:02:08.236-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Valentines Weekend Caricatures</title><content type='html'>I draw caricatures at the Grove Park Inn Hotel &amp; Spa. Yesterday I drew a few couples who were celebrating Valentines. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/1aVD11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 562px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/1aVD11.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2aVD11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 560px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2aVD11.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-4464147681950212099?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/4464147681950212099/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=4464147681950212099' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4464147681950212099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4464147681950212099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/02/valentines-weekend-caricatures.html' title='Valentines Weekend Caricatures'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-2795774800982459348</id><published>2011-01-27T12:27:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-23T11:02:23.149-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fine Art'/><title type='text'>Watercolor Art Show</title><content type='html'>From February 6th to the 28th I will be showing my watercolor paintings at the First Congregational United Church of Christ Art Gallery. Their address is 20 Oak Street Asheville 28801. I will be at the official opening on February 6th after the Sunday service around 11:30AM. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VWC3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 713px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VWC3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VWC2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 590px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VWC2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VWC5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 562px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VWC5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VWC6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 337px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VWC6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CityV.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 335px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CityV.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/DSCN6025b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 560px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/DSCN6025b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Vasilik1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 778px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Vasilik1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/mapFC.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 609px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/mapFC.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-2795774800982459348?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/2795774800982459348/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=2795774800982459348' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2795774800982459348'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2795774800982459348'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/01/watercolor-art-show.html' title='Watercolor Art Show'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-4715473201550929990</id><published>2011-01-11T10:40:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-23T11:02:29.160-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Commisioned Caricatures'/><title type='text'>Butterflies and a motorcycle</title><content type='html'>This is a commissioned caricature I finished at the end of the year. A couple were riding their motorcycles on the Blue Ridge Parkway. She rode through a swarm of butterflies and one got inside her helmet. The client wanted the rendering to illustrate the event. The size is 11' by 14" and was painted in watercolors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ColorCycle3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 539px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ColorCycle3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-4715473201550929990?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/4715473201550929990/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=4715473201550929990' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4715473201550929990'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4715473201550929990'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2011/01/butterflies-and-motorcycle.html' title='Butterflies and a motorcycle'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-2985916080830817337</id><published>2010-12-13T14:43:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-23T11:04:50.168-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature Videos'/><title type='text'>2010 Las Vegas ISCA Convention</title><content type='html'>While at the International Society of Caricature Artists convention in Las Vegas I filmed the artists and their artwork. This video is 40 minutes I reduced down to this 15 minute film.  Click twice onto the video to watch it full size at Youtube.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="256"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UsqxrqT7xN0?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UsqxrqT7xN0?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="256"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-2985916080830817337?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/2985916080830817337/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=2985916080830817337' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2985916080830817337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2985916080830817337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/12/2010-las-vegas-isca-convention.html' title='2010 Las Vegas ISCA Convention'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-4579442230443051418</id><published>2010-11-23T09:38:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-23T11:03:02.301-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>November Caricatures</title><content type='html'>November and December is the time of year I draw at holiday parties and events. Here are a few recent live caricatures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2010c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 561px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2010c.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2010d.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 552px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2010d.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2314a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 592px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2314a.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2010b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 405px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2010b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2318.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 566px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2318.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2316.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 565px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2316.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2010a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 530px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2010a.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2317.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 567px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2317.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2315.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 568px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2315.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-4579442230443051418?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/4579442230443051418/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=4579442230443051418' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4579442230443051418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4579442230443051418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/11/november-caricatures.html' title='November Caricatures'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-4331438575159554232</id><published>2010-11-17T21:09:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-23T11:04:19.807-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>2010 Caricature Convention in Las Vegas</title><content type='html'>For the past five years I have been attending the International Society of Caricature Artist's annual convention. This year it was held in Las Vegas. Previous conventions have been in Orlando, Reno, Raleigh and Sandusky. I had a great time attending workshops and drawing other caricature artists. The guest of honor was Bill Plympton famous for his hand drawn animations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV93.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 340px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV93.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV94.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 567px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV94.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 915px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 567px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 598px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 520px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 566px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 364px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV7.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 334px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV8.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 517px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV9.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV91.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 516px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV91.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV92.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 526px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCALV92.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-4331438575159554232?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/4331438575159554232/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=4331438575159554232' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4331438575159554232'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4331438575159554232'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/11/for-past-five-years-i-have-been.html' title='2010 Caricature Convention in Las Vegas'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-4475643902072764436</id><published>2010-11-05T08:12:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2011-02-23T11:04:10.675-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Commisioned Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Illustration'/><title type='text'>Caricature Cheer</title><content type='html'>Been busy drawing at events and working on commissions. Below is a cheerleading theme caricature. Next week I am off to the International Society of Caricature Artists annual convention in Las Vegas. I will tell you all about it when I get back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ColorCheer.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 532px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ColorCheer.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-4475643902072764436?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/4475643902072764436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=4475643902072764436' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4475643902072764436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4475643902072764436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/11/caricature-cheer.html' title='Caricature Cheer'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-7401909239504204739</id><published>2010-10-12T09:06:00.009-04:00</published><updated>2011-02-23T11:03:59.706-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><title type='text'>Downtown Asheville Sketch</title><content type='html'>I drew this Asheville street corner on the spot last weekend. The location is Pack Square. It shows the older BB&amp;T high rise building in the background that was built in the '60s. Many residents find the structure ugly. The corner shows the brick lined sidewalk. Restaurants occupy the brick building that is pre '60s. Drawn with markers and shaded with a black art stick.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/downtown.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 564px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/downtown.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a photo of the corner. Altered the perspective and dimensions of the buildings, the angles of the street and placement of the light pole. Now that I look at the drawing it looks too unbalanced.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CornerPhoto.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 596px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CornerPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I painted a final watercolor making a few changes from the initial sketch. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/WC1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 559px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/WC1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-7401909239504204739?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/7401909239504204739/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=7401909239504204739' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7401909239504204739'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7401909239504204739'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/10/downtown-asheville-sketch.html' title='Downtown Asheville Sketch'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-734770353703708353</id><published>2010-10-04T11:29:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2011-02-23T11:03:51.647-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>ResMed Picnic in Greenville, NC</title><content type='html'>I was busy this past weekend drawing party caricatures for BB&amp;T bank in Winston-Salem and for the ResMed company picnic in Greenville, South Carolina. Here are some of my quick caricatures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ResMed1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ResMed1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ResMed2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 562px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ResMed2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ResMed3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ResMed3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ResMed4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 562px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ResMed4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-734770353703708353?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/734770353703708353/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=734770353703708353' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/734770353703708353'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/734770353703708353'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/10/resmed-picnic-in-greenville-nc.html' title='ResMed Picnic in Greenville, NC'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-7426579017643682343</id><published>2010-09-13T21:09:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-14T10:02:14.211-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Commisioned Caricatures'/><title type='text'>Uptown Greenville's Freeboot Fridays</title><content type='html'>I was contacted by Uptown Greenville, NC to create these caricature portraits for some of their special volunteers. In 2001, Uptown Greenville started the Freeboot Friday live downtown music concerts. The pirate theme series has become very popular among locals and visitors drawing an average attendance fo 2,800. Here is their website www.uptowngreenville.com &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/freeboot4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 534px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/freeboot4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/freeboot3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 540px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/freeboot3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Freeboot1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 534px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Freeboot1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Freeboot2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 541px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Freeboot2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/FreebootReference.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 581px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/FreebootReference.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-7426579017643682343?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/7426579017643682343/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=7426579017643682343' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7426579017643682343'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7426579017643682343'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/09/uptown-greenvilles-freeboot-fridays.html' title='Uptown Greenville&apos;s Freeboot Fridays'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-5152911694812373386</id><published>2010-09-13T14:06:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-15T21:52:12.235-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>City of 1,000 Easels</title><content type='html'>On Sunday I was part of the Asheville Area Arts Council's City of 1,000 Easels event. Around 110 artists descended downtown Asheville to create art. I set up at Pritchard Park and drew my caricatures on the street. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Easels0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 567px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Easels0.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/03_33_Brian_Vasilik.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 493px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/03_33_Brian_Vasilik.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photo above by Zen Sutherland&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Easels1jpg.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 567px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Easels1jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Easels2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Easels2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Easels3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 567px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Easels3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-5152911694812373386?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/5152911694812373386/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=5152911694812373386' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5152911694812373386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5152911694812373386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/09/city-of-1000-easels.html' title='City of 1,000 Easels'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-6047752610831100912</id><published>2010-09-10T15:53:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-14T10:02:38.809-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Caricatures in Hillsborough,NC</title><content type='html'>Drew some great folks at a company appreciation party. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Smemo1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 532px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Smemo1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Smemo2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 558px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Smemo2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Smemo3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 589px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Smemo3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Smemo4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 536px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Smemo4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-6047752610831100912?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/6047752610831100912/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=6047752610831100912' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/6047752610831100912'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/6047752610831100912'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/09/caricatures-in-hillsboroughnc.html' title='Caricatures in Hillsborough,NC'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-4544890772124362328</id><published>2010-09-06T09:03:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-14T10:02:38.810-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Downtown Asheville Caricatures</title><content type='html'>This week I drew caricatures on the streets of Asheville. I set up one day near Pack Square, the "center" of downtown Asheville. I also drew at the Lexington Arts and Fun Festival for the second year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AshD1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AshD1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AshD2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 569px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AshD2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photo below by Gary Charles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/57930_1600139129383_1413206536_1615648_6625140_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/57930_1600139129383_1413206536_1615648_6625140_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/1LAF10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/1LAF10.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2LAF10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 553px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2LAF10.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-4544890772124362328?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/4544890772124362328/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=4544890772124362328' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4544890772124362328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4544890772124362328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/09/downtown-asheville-caricatures.html' title='Downtown Asheville Caricatures'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-7025664937929274422</id><published>2010-09-03T11:58:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T12:21:04.037-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Caricature Contest for Carl Mumpower</title><content type='html'>Local conservative politician, Carl Mumpower, asked Asheville artists to make him into a caricature. Submissions will be included in his upcoming book and he will pick a first place winner. Guess who won. I did! Here is my winning caricature submission that I drew in pencil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VasilikPencil.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 475px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VasilikPencil.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/tv-ad.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 636px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/tv-ad.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-7025664937929274422?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/7025664937929274422/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=7025664937929274422' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7025664937929274422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7025664937929274422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/09/caricature-contest-for-carl-mumpower.html' title='Caricature Contest for Carl Mumpower'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-2491522141842216324</id><published>2010-08-30T10:13:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-14T10:03:12.687-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fine Art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Figure Drawing'/><title type='text'>Portrait Drawing Workshop</title><content type='html'>Last week I took a Portrait Drawing class taught by Angela Cunningham from The Grand Central Academy of Art. The workshop was held at The Fine Arts League of the Carolinas in Asheville, NC. I learned to slow down drawing from 10am to 5pm each day. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://angelacunninghamfineart.blogspot.com/"&gt; Here is Angela's blog. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ACW1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 567px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ACW1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ACW2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ACW2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ACW3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ACW3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ACW4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ACW4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-2491522141842216324?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/2491522141842216324/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=2491522141842216324' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2491522141842216324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2491522141842216324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/08/portrait-drawing-workshop.html' title='Portrait Drawing Workshop'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-8997272483535570032</id><published>2010-08-20T08:27:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-14T10:03:06.714-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Commisioned Caricatures'/><title type='text'>Political Cartoon</title><content type='html'>Commissioned cartoon for The Gaspee Gazette. http://gaspeegazette.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/270/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/FlyCoach.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 346px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/FlyCoach.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-8997272483535570032?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/8997272483535570032/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=8997272483535570032' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/8997272483535570032'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/8997272483535570032'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/08/political-cartoon.html' title='Political Cartoon'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-5149420211434100145</id><published>2010-08-15T12:17:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-14T10:03:32.285-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Summer Caricatures</title><content type='html'>Two live caricatures I did last night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2096.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 566px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2096.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2097.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 577px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2097.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2094.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 347px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2094.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2095.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 321px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_2095.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-5149420211434100145?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/5149420211434100145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=5149420211434100145' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5149420211434100145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5149420211434100145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/08/summer-caricatures.html' title='Summer Caricatures'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-3511290441972448634</id><published>2010-08-11T17:50:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-14T09:31:54.225-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Commisioned Caricatures'/><title type='text'>Caricature Gift for the Upwardly Mobile Boss</title><content type='html'>What do you do when your boss gets a promotion? Give her a caricature. This marketing director was leaving a position at the Brevard hospital to a Vice President position at our local airport. The 11" by 14" watercolor illustration was placed on a 16" by 20" board so her coworkers could sign around it. I included the preliminary sketch that got approved before the final was finished.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BH1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 505px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BH1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BH2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 583px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BH2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BH3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 560px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BH3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BH5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BH5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BH6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 313px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BH6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BH7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 567px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BH7.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BH8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BH8.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-3511290441972448634?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/3511290441972448634/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=3511290441972448634' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3511290441972448634'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3511290441972448634'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/08/gift-for-upwardly-mobile-boss.html' title='Caricature Gift for the Upwardly Mobile Boss'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-263124829734338313</id><published>2010-07-25T11:03:00.008-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-14T09:31:54.226-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Commisioned Caricatures'/><title type='text'>Zombie Caricature</title><content type='html'>This was a fun illustration project. His girlfriend contacted me to create a zombie caricature to celebrate his birthday. She wanted me to  included his Fender guitar and having him chained to an amp. Zombies like to eat brains too. The size is 14" by 17". I drew the lines with a PITT artist brush pen and colored with watercolors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/zz1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 517px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/zz1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/PhotoRef-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 294px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/PhotoRef-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/zz2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 567px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/zz2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/zz3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 513px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/zz3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/zz4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 492px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/zz4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/zz5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 637px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/zz5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/zz6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 308px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/zz6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/zz7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 524px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/zz7.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-263124829734338313?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/263124829734338313/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=263124829734338313' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/263124829734338313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/263124829734338313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/07/zombie-caricature.html' title='Zombie Caricature'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-1134389504900302075</id><published>2010-07-09T12:34:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-14T09:32:03.656-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Graphic Design'/><title type='text'>Dragon Pizza Logo</title><content type='html'>Logo design  for a pizza parlor business. I included my preliminary sketches to show you how this project evolved. Click the images to see them larger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/PizzaDragon1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 347px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/PizzaDragon1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quick sketches. I liked how the tail fit into the missing pizza slice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/PizzaDragon2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 310px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/PizzaDragon2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I decided using a circle (the pizza) anchored the design. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/PizzaDragon3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 389px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/PizzaDragon3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/PizzaDragon4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 357px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/PizzaDragon4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-1134389504900302075?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/1134389504900302075/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=1134389504900302075' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/1134389504900302075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/1134389504900302075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/07/pizza-dragon-logo.html' title='Dragon Pizza Logo'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-3674872761303082694</id><published>2010-07-07T10:26:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-14T09:32:33.043-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>More Summer Caricatures</title><content type='html'>Having a great time this summer keeping busy drawing live caricatures. Drew at Meggan and Sherman's wedding at Claxton Farm in Weaverville, drew dogs for the "Yappy Hour" at Highland Falls Country Club and returned to Antler Hill Village at the Biltmore Estate. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AHBE1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 564px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AHBE1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AHBE2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 579px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AHBE2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AHBE3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 507px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AHBE3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AHBE4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 567px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AHBE4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AHBE5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 524px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AHBE5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AHBE6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 628px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AHBE6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AHBE7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 535px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AHBE7.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AHBE8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 571px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AHBE8.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AHBE9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 553px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/AHBE9.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPIJune1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 798px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPIJune1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPIJune2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 471px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPIJune2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPIJune3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 494px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPIJune3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPIJune4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 566px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPIJune4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-3674872761303082694?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/3674872761303082694/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=3674872761303082694' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3674872761303082694'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3674872761303082694'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/07/more-summer-caricatures.html' title='More Summer Caricatures'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-2072809814197154564</id><published>2010-06-24T10:38:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-14T09:32:54.479-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Antler Hill Village at the Biltmore Estate</title><content type='html'>A few weeks age I drew at the grand opening of Antler Hill Village on the grounds of the Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina. &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.biltmore.com/visit/antler_hill_village/default.asp"&gt;Information on Antler Hill&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 547px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 278px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 328px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE10.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 333px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE9.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 548px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE12.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 287px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE11.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 628px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 547px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 548px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 282px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 556px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE8.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 379px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BE7.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-2072809814197154564?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/2072809814197154564/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=2072809814197154564' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2072809814197154564'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2072809814197154564'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/06/antler-hill-village-at-biltmore-estate.html' title='Antler Hill Village at the Biltmore Estate'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-1372407030851951468</id><published>2010-06-15T15:29:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-17T12:11:25.875-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><title type='text'>Model with an octopus</title><content type='html'>Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School from Nashville was held at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival this past week. Here is one of my five minute drawings I did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BonnSketchys.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 602px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BonnSketchys.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-1372407030851951468?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/1372407030851951468/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=1372407030851951468' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/1372407030851951468'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/1372407030851951468'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/06/model-with-octopus.html' title='Model with an octopus'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-7858812569437087029</id><published>2010-06-07T23:23:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-17T12:14:24.697-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Commisioned Caricatures'/><title type='text'>Farming Caricature</title><content type='html'>Here is a recent caricature with a farming theme. The tractor is a Massey Furguson. If you click on the image you can see it larger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CFarm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 540px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CFarm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-7858812569437087029?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/7858812569437087029/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=7858812569437087029' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7858812569437087029'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7858812569437087029'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/06/farming-caricature.html' title='Farming Caricature'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-5954006376503718451</id><published>2010-06-04T00:25:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-17T12:14:24.697-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Nashville Trade Show</title><content type='html'>I spent a few days in Nashville last week drawing caricatures for DST Output at the CS Week Conference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_1832.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 567px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_1832.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_1814.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_1814.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_1812.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_1812.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_1816.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 318px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_1816.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_1818.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 318px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_1818.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-5954006376503718451?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/5954006376503718451/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=5954006376503718451' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5954006376503718451'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5954006376503718451'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/06/nashville-trade-show.html' title='Nashville Trade Show'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-4475218362432828175</id><published>2010-05-18T00:32:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-17T12:14:24.698-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>FANATICON 2010</title><content type='html'>I drew caricatures at Asheville's first FANATICON comic and fantasy convention on May 15th. http://www.fanaticon.org/main/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/fanaticon1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 567px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/fanaticon1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/fanaticon2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/fanaticon2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/fanaticon3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 318px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/fanaticon3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/fanaticon4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 556px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/fanaticon4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/fanaticon5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/fanaticon5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/fanaticon6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 331px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/fanaticon6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/fanaticon7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 496px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/fanaticon7.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/fanaticon8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 541px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/fanaticon8.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/fanaticon9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 418px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/fanaticon9.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-4475218362432828175?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/4475218362432828175/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=4475218362432828175' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4475218362432828175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4475218362432828175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/05/fanaticon-2010.html' title='FANATICON 2010'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-9019244303555325413</id><published>2010-05-12T15:00:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-17T12:12:34.185-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Illustration'/><title type='text'>DrawingBoard.org Caricature Studies</title><content type='html'>Over at Drawingboard.org there is a thread were caricature artists draw each other. Here are two of my contributions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Marcus-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 398px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Marcus-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/KevinW.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 502px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/KevinW.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-9019244303555325413?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/9019244303555325413/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=9019244303555325413' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/9019244303555325413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/9019244303555325413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/05/drawingboardorg-caricature-studies.html' title='DrawingBoard.org Caricature Studies'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-5431053967922464600</id><published>2010-05-10T14:36:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-17T12:14:24.699-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>2010 Mother's Day Caricatures</title><content type='html'>Some of my retail caricatures over Mother's Day weekend in Asheville.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/1MD10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 559px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/1MD10.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2MD10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 366px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2MD10.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/3MD10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 540px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/3MD10.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/4MD10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 325px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/4MD10.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/5MD10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 556px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/5MD10.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/6MD10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 567px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/6MD10.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-5431053967922464600?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/5431053967922464600/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=5431053967922464600' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5431053967922464600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5431053967922464600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/05/2010-mothers-day-caricatures.html' title='2010 Mother&apos;s Day Caricatures'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-493199849368461770</id><published>2010-05-10T12:11:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-17T12:14:24.700-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Pet Cartoons at The Hop Ice Cream Cafe</title><content type='html'>A Dog Social was held this past week at The Hop Ice Cream Cafe on Merrimon Avenue north of downtown Asheville. I drew at the event last year too. There will be more Dog Socials the first Thursdays of each month during the summer. Come by to have your doggie drawn. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Hop1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 334px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Hop1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Hop2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 357px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Hop2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Hop4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 554px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Hop4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Hop3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Hop3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Hop5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 543px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Hop5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Hop6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 550px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Hop6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-493199849368461770?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/493199849368461770/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=493199849368461770' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/493199849368461770'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/493199849368461770'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/05/pet-cartoons-at-hop-ice-cream-cafe.html' title='Pet Cartoons at The Hop Ice Cream Cafe'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-2377983656095440108</id><published>2010-05-07T00:33:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-17T12:12:48.173-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><title type='text'>The Real New Orleans</title><content type='html'>Quick sketch and video I made while visiting New Orleans.&lt;br /&gt;There is so much music happening in this city. Big name acts and small shows like this one I stumbled upon held in the Community Book Center. http://www.communitybookcenter.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CBC100.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 340px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CBC100.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To see video in full size double click video to watch at YouTube site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wM1mVwVHliA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wM1mVwVHliA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="256"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-2377983656095440108?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/2377983656095440108/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=2377983656095440108' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2377983656095440108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2377983656095440108'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/05/real-new-orleans.html' title='The Real New Orleans'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-481633983920454986</id><published>2010-04-22T11:13:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-17T12:14:24.701-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Commisioned Caricatures'/><title type='text'>Black &amp; White Gift Caricatures</title><content type='html'>Two commissioned illustrations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/KCFootball72.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 545px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/KCFootball72.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/KCPhoto.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 569px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/KCPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Hug72.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 545px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Hug72.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/free.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 566px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/free.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_1255.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 364px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/IMG_1255.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-481633983920454986?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/481633983920454986/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=481633983920454986' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/481633983920454986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/481633983920454986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/04/black-white-gift-caricatures.html' title='Black &amp; White Gift Caricatures'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-2736454520995256669</id><published>2010-04-18T13:03:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-17T12:14:24.701-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Caricatures on Colored Paper</title><content type='html'>I drew at a college Spring Fling event this past week and took a few pictures. A fellow caricature artist, Court Jones, mentioned he draws on colored paper so I decided to give it a try myself. Drawing on the colored paper was fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Alamance1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Alamance1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Alamance2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 367px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Alamance2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Alamance3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Alamance3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Alamance6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Alamance6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Alamance5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Alamance5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Alamance4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Alamance4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-2736454520995256669?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/2736454520995256669/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=2736454520995256669' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2736454520995256669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2736454520995256669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/04/caricatures-on-colored-paper.html' title='Caricatures on Colored Paper'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-7157549956233549499</id><published>2010-03-30T13:23:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-17T12:13:39.606-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><title type='text'>Practice Sketches &amp; Doodles</title><content type='html'>I like to practice drawing faces from photographs and from my imagination. The faces from the first sketch page is from the book 1000 Families by Uwe Ommer. Can you tell which one was made up from my imagination. The second sketch page are fun doodles that I colored with markers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Sketch1Sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 516px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Sketch1Sm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Sketch2Sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 538px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Sketch2Sm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-7157549956233549499?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/7157549956233549499/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=7157549956233549499' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7157549956233549499'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7157549956233549499'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/03/practice-sketches-doodles.html' title='Practice Sketches &amp; Doodles'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-3037846292687494267</id><published>2010-03-24T13:24:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2010-03-24T16:46:38.048-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Win a caricature by me</title><content type='html'>I am having a contest to win a caricature by myself. In Asheville's Mountain Express newspaper I placed the following ad. If you join my fan page at Brian Vasilik Illustration &amp; Design you could win a caricature. On April 10th I will choose a random fan. Good Luck!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Asheville-NC/Brian-Vasilik-Illustration-Design/106662876028182?ref=mf"&gt; Go here to join Brian Vasilik Illustration &amp; Design&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/MExpress.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 332px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/MExpress.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By joining my Facebook fan page you will be kept up to date on my different art projects and appearances.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-3037846292687494267?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/3037846292687494267/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=3037846292687494267' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3037846292687494267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3037846292687494267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/03/win-caricature-by-me.html' title='Win a caricature by me'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-5902851764532642064</id><published>2010-03-21T20:32:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-17T12:13:52.020-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Commisioned Caricatures'/><title type='text'>Digital Caricatures</title><content type='html'>These gift caricatures were hand drawn and colored on my computer using Photoshop. They look simple but take from 2 to 3 hours to create. I had to research the themes, sketch ideas, draw the cartoon faces and bodies, get approvals from the client, make changes and color them. A lot of work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/OscarSm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 550px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/OscarSm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ShaniSm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 595px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ShaniSm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/RobbSm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 577px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/RobbSm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ScrubsSm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 550px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ScrubsSm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-5902851764532642064?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/5902851764532642064/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=5902851764532642064' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5902851764532642064'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5902851764532642064'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/03/digital-caricatures.html' title='Digital Caricatures'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-7345476185287814670</id><published>2010-02-21T16:21:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-02T13:38:08.631-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Friends for Life Radiothon</title><content type='html'>This past Friday and Saturday I donated my time by drawing caricatures for the Mission Children's Hospital 2nd annual Friends for Life Radiothon. It was held at the Asheville Mall and I also helped out last year. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://support.missionfoundation.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ffl_homepage"&gt; You can learn about the event here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/1Mission2010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 645px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/1Mission2010.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2Mission2010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 333px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2Mission2010.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/3Mission2010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 411px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/3Mission2010.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/4Mission2010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 329px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/4Mission2010.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/5Mission2010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 319px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/5Mission2010.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/6Mission2010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 642px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/6Mission2010.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-7345476185287814670?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/7345476185287814670/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=7345476185287814670' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7345476185287814670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7345476185287814670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/02/friends-for-life-radiothon.html' title='Friends for Life Radiothon'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-3570655891064885028</id><published>2010-02-14T14:51:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-02T13:38:18.716-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Valentine's Weekend Caricatures</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VW1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 654px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VW1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VW2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 555px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VW2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VW4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 560px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VW4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VW3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 555px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VW3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VW5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 450px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VW5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VW6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 314px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VW6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-3570655891064885028?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/3570655891064885028/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=3570655891064885028' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3570655891064885028'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3570655891064885028'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/02/valentines-weekend-caricatures.html' title='Valentine&apos;s Weekend Caricatures'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-2308312753273193118</id><published>2010-02-01T14:25:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-02T13:38:27.894-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Commisioned Caricatures'/><title type='text'>A Little Less Caricature</title><content type='html'>Here is a caricature commission where the client decided to have me illustrate a more conventional portrait. My first sketch I pushed the features resulting in an more exaggerated likeness. It was decided to go for a more milder caricature as you can see in the final which was done with a quill pen and colored pencils. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/zPencilFinal.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 560px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/zPencilFinal.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/zMSketch.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 560px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/zMSketch.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/zphotoRefM.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 605px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/zphotoRefM.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-2308312753273193118?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/2308312753273193118/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=2308312753273193118' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2308312753273193118'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2308312753273193118'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/02/little-less-caricature.html' title='A Little Less Caricature'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-2171214152096004493</id><published>2010-01-17T23:14:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-02T13:39:23.783-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Quick Party Caricatures</title><content type='html'>Caricatures from a recent party.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CP1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 400px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CP1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CP2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 349px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CP2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CP3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 577px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CP3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CP4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 570px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/CP4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-2171214152096004493?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/2171214152096004493/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=2171214152096004493' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2171214152096004493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2171214152096004493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/01/quick-party-caricatures.html' title='Quick Party Caricatures'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-7191107379075520262</id><published>2010-01-15T02:47:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-02T13:38:51.473-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><title type='text'>Foo Fighters</title><content type='html'>Frontman and songwriter Dave Grohl. I think I made him look fat in his caricature. Ha. Need to give him another try.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Dave255.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 511px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Dave255.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/foo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 568px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/foo.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-7191107379075520262?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/7191107379075520262/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=7191107379075520262' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7191107379075520262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7191107379075520262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/01/hint-foofighters.html' title='Foo Fighters'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-2356606896905626671</id><published>2010-01-14T14:45:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-02T13:39:02.053-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Commisioned Caricatures'/><title type='text'>Black &amp; White Retirement Caricature</title><content type='html'>Here is a example of one of my black and white caricature gifts for someone who is retiring. The final size is 11" by 14". Drawn with waterproof Indian ink on Arches watercolor paper with some washes on it. I included my initial sketches and photo reference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/brad2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 525px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/brad2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/sketches.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 538px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/sketches.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BradleyPhotos2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 668px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BradleyPhotos2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-2356606896905626671?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/2356606896905626671/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=2356606896905626671' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2356606896905626671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2356606896905626671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/01/black-white-retirement-caricature.html' title='Black &amp; White Retirement Caricature'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-2067364543347263679</id><published>2010-01-03T11:26:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-12T15:53:35.905-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>New Live Caricatures for 2010</title><content type='html'>Happy new year everyone. I was busy spending time with family during the holiday. Here are some of my first drawings for 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPI1j.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 670px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPI1j.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPI2j.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 572px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPI2j.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPI3j.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 341px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPI3j.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPI4j.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 591px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPI4j.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPI5j.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 522px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPI5j.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPI6j.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 331px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPI6j.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPI7j.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 324px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/GPI7j.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-2067364543347263679?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/2067364543347263679/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=2067364543347263679' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2067364543347263679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2067364543347263679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-live-caricatures-for-2010.html' title='New Live Caricatures for 2010'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-4952475508672284292</id><published>2009-12-28T21:49:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-12T15:53:02.145-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>My Nephews</title><content type='html'>Over the holidays I drew my nephews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/PeterSm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 560px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/PeterSm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Ksm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 540px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Ksm.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-4952475508672284292?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/4952475508672284292/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=4952475508672284292' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4952475508672284292'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4952475508672284292'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-nephews.html' title='My Nephews'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-2101837902837350900</id><published>2009-12-20T20:23:00.008-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-12T15:52:39.904-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Illustration'/><title type='text'>Girl with Green Hat</title><content type='html'>Character design practice. I scanned the sketch into Corel Painter were it was rendered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/hat7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 648px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/hat7.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lcFFVl8mMBg/Sy7OhzsQh5I/AAAAAAAAA3k/pJEhTLp5bWY/s1600-h/hatLady100.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 204px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lcFFVl8mMBg/Sy7OhzsQh5I/AAAAAAAAA3k/pJEhTLp5bWY/s400/hatLady100.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417494481980131218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-2101837902837350900?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/2101837902837350900/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=2101837902837350900' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2101837902837350900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2101837902837350900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/12/character-design.html' title='Girl with Green Hat'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lcFFVl8mMBg/Sy7OhzsQh5I/AAAAAAAAA3k/pJEhTLp5bWY/s72-c/hatLady100.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-3772201875762698357</id><published>2009-12-17T13:25:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-17T13:28:21.602-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Top 10 Most Interesting Faces of 2009</title><content type='html'>The International Society of Caricature Artists assembled this list. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lcFFVl8mMBg/Syp3wB5hpwI/AAAAAAAAA3E/EAsV_fEaHLw/s1600-h/top10isca.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lcFFVl8mMBg/Syp3wB5hpwI/AAAAAAAAA3E/EAsV_fEaHLw/s400/top10isca.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416273168893585154" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-3772201875762698357?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/3772201875762698357/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=3772201875762698357' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3772201875762698357'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3772201875762698357'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/12/top-10-most-interesting-faces-of-2009.html' title='The Top 10 Most Interesting Faces of 2009'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lcFFVl8mMBg/Syp3wB5hpwI/AAAAAAAAA3E/EAsV_fEaHLw/s72-c/top10isca.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-5496678367768106327</id><published>2009-12-13T18:04:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-12T15:52:29.168-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><title type='text'>My Sketches</title><content type='html'>Here are some various practice sketching from photographs in books and other artist's work. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This page has watercolor, crayon, ballpoint pen, pencil and ink. Drew the faces from Robert Beverly Hale's book "Master Class in Figure Drawing" and James Jean's book "Process Recess vol.3". 11" by 15"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VariousSketches.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 320px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/VariousSketches.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pencil sketches from the "Illustration" magazine issue #25. 11" by 13"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/PencilSketch.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 515px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/PencilSketch.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ballpoint pen sketches from the "American Photobooth" by Nakki Goranin. 9.5" by 12"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BallPointPenSketches.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 516px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/BallPointPenSketches.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-5496678367768106327?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/5496678367768106327/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=5496678367768106327' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5496678367768106327'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5496678367768106327'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-sketches.html' title='My Sketches'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-2906259256287614095</id><published>2009-12-08T21:24:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T14:51:21.545-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Commisioned Caricatures'/><title type='text'>80th Birthday Caricature</title><content type='html'>I hope I look this good when I turn 80 years old! This is a gift caricature where I wanted its style to reflect the dapper person. So I did not overly exaggerate it and went for an editorial style. The 11" by 14" illustration was done with PITT artist pens, water color washes and Prisamacolor Col-Erase pencils. &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nybooks.com/gallery/"&gt; I was thinking about the great work of David Levine while drawing the cross hatching.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; The client sent me a note saying " AWESOME job!!! We love it, it reflects very well his personality... You are so talented! Thank you!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/72jml.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 574px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/72jml.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/closeUP.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 425px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/closeUP.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/HD.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 425px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/HD.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/jml72.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 597px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/jml72.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-2906259256287614095?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/2906259256287614095/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=2906259256287614095' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2906259256287614095'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/2906259256287614095'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/12/80th-birthday-caricature.html' title='80th Birthday Caricature'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-4640287322269967649</id><published>2009-11-29T15:53:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T14:51:21.546-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Thanksgiving Weekend Caricatures</title><content type='html'>Was busy this past week drawing at a wedding in Virginia and also drawing the guests at the Grove Park Inn Hotel in Asheville. Here are two of my caricatures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Nov2009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 706px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Nov2009.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/1Nov2009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 557px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/1Nov2009.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2Nov2009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 653px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2Nov2009.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-4640287322269967649?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/4640287322269967649/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=4640287322269967649' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4640287322269967649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4640287322269967649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/11/thanksgiving-weekend-caricatures.html' title='Thanksgiving Weekend Caricatures'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-603912915151396224</id><published>2009-11-25T01:59:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T14:55:38.057-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature Videos'/><title type='text'>Caricature  Convention Artwork</title><content type='html'>I made this video of artwork/artists from the ISCA convention I participated in.&lt;br /&gt;Go to the YouTube site to see the video in full size.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="315"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/arALSXuG3nc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/arALSXuG3nc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="315"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-603912915151396224?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/603912915151396224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=603912915151396224' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/603912915151396224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/603912915151396224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/11/caricature-convention-artwork.html' title='Caricature  Convention Artwork'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-5127770868204146696</id><published>2009-11-22T00:52:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T14:51:21.546-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Family of Three</title><content type='html'>This family was fun to draw.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/three3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 672px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/three3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/three1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height:616px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/three1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-5127770868204146696?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/5127770868204146696/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=5127770868204146696' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5127770868204146696'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5127770868204146696'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/11/family-of-three.html' title='Family of Three'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-307749328878980367</id><published>2009-11-20T16:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T14:56:16.542-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature Videos'/><title type='text'>Trade Show Caricatures</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/31nog_QQEAk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/31nog_QQEAk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-307749328878980367?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/307749328878980367/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=307749328878980367' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/307749328878980367'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/307749328878980367'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/11/trade-show-caricatures.html' title='Trade Show Caricatures'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-1322957965162050602</id><published>2009-11-17T14:04:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T14:54:44.923-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Illustration'/><title type='text'>Tilda Swinton Caricature</title><content type='html'>On the ISCA forum there is a section called "Let's Draw". For almost a year Jan Op de beeck from Belgium has posted challenges to draw different people on their birthday. November 5th was actor Tilda Swintin and here is my effort done in pencil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Untitled-72.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 536px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Untitled-72.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/detailS.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height:484px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/detailS.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Swintin4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 693px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Swintin4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Swinton2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 469px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Swinton2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-1322957965162050602?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/1322957965162050602/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=1322957965162050602' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/1322957965162050602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/1322957965162050602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/11/tilda-swinton-caricature.html' title='Tilda Swinton Caricature'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-6473060447551450584</id><published>2009-11-14T12:58:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T14:54:18.943-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature Videos'/><title type='text'>Another ISCA Convention Video</title><content type='html'>Here is another video I filmed of the activities at the 2009 ISCA convention. This was my fourth caricature convention and each one gets better. As a member of the International Society of Caricature Artists I have met many new friends. My work has improved by attending workshops and watching the other artists create their artwork. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="305"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QF3M--z10X4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QF3M--z10X4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="305"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-6473060447551450584?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/6473060447551450584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=6473060447551450584' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/6473060447551450584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/6473060447551450584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/11/isca-convention-videos.html' title='Another ISCA Convention Video'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-8511243449703893196</id><published>2009-11-12T23:26:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T14:53:56.023-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature Videos'/><title type='text'>ISCA Convention Video</title><content type='html'>Want to see everyone creating caricatures at the convention? Here is a video I filmed of the ballroom where everyone worked. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="305"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/F3D0oGigzIo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/F3D0oGigzIo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="305"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-8511243449703893196?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/8511243449703893196/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=8511243449703893196' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/8511243449703893196'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/8511243449703893196'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/11/isca-convention-video.html' title='ISCA Convention Video'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-4836733576386756882</id><published>2009-11-12T22:51:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T14:54:07.749-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>2009 ISCA Convention</title><content type='html'>Last week I participated in the International Society of Caricature Artists convention. It was held in Sandusky, Ohio at the Kalahari Resort.  Here are my caricatures I created. I was number 149. For a change I did most of my work in watercolor. I also made a shadow box caricature for the 3D category. Watching all the other artist at the convention working hard makes me want to do my best. I was happy with the direction of my work and see room for improvement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My wall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCA0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 662px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCA0.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am on the left standing with UK artist Paul Moyes. &lt;br /&gt;A few people mistook me for Paul.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/MePaul.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 365px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/MePaul.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCA9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 609px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCA9.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Experimenting with a overlapping watercolor image.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCA7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 344px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCA7.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCA8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 445px; height: 453px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCA8.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCA6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 445px; height: 762px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCA6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My 3D shadow box caricature of Lar Desouza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCA12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 620px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCA12.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCA4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 645px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCA4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCA2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 631px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCA2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCA11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 649px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ISCA11.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-4836733576386756882?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/4836733576386756882/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=4836733576386756882' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4836733576386756882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4836733576386756882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/11/2009-isca-convention.html' title='2009 ISCA Convention'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-5076977770145237479</id><published>2009-10-26T18:16:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2011-01-28T00:46:23.625-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Alvaro Castagnet Watercolor Workshop</title><content type='html'>This past week I attended a watercolor workshop by Alvaro Castagnet. &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.alvarocastagnet.net/"&gt;Here is his website.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; The class was held in Boone, North Carolina at the facilities of Cheap Joe's Art Stuff. I learned a lot and had fun painting. He painted nine demos and two are shown below. During the workshop I drew a caricature of Alvaro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* I just learned Alvaro is giving another workshop in Boone,NC on October 24-28 in 2011. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cheapjoes.com/art-instruction/artist-workshops.asp"&gt;Here is the information.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/workshop4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 525px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/workshop4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/workshop5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 544px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/workshop5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/workshop6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 584px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/workshop6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/workshop1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 325px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/workshop1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/workshop2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 625px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/workshop2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/workshop3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 625px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/workshop3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-5076977770145237479?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/5076977770145237479/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=5076977770145237479' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5076977770145237479'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5076977770145237479'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/10/alvaro-castagnet-watercolor-workshop.html' title='Alvaro Castagnet Watercolor Workshop'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-8852466725251672613</id><published>2009-10-16T23:54:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T14:53:38.389-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Commisioned Caricatures'/><title type='text'>RV Couple</title><content type='html'>Here is a commissioned caricature for a nice couple. They are moving to Texas and enjoy RVing. The size of the drawing is 18" x 24". &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/inked.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 374px; height: 325px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/inked.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the finished color illustration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/TexasColor.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 327px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/TexasColor.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-8852466725251672613?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/8852466725251672613/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=8852466725251672613' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/8852466725251672613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/8852466725251672613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/10/rv-couple.html' title='RV Couple'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-6655725823169209634</id><published>2009-10-01T19:47:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T14:56:16.543-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>White Oak Estates Caricatures</title><content type='html'>I was in Spartenburg, South Carolina today drawing caricatures at the White Oak Estate. Here are a few of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Spart3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 643px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Spart3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Spart4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 383px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Spart4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Spart1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 698px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Spart1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Spart2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 607px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Spart2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Spart5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 549px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Spart5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Spart6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 341px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Spart6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-6655725823169209634?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/6655725823169209634/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=6655725823169209634' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/6655725823169209634'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/6655725823169209634'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/10/white-oak-estates-caricatures.html' title='White Oak Estates Caricatures'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-6478348282848116610</id><published>2009-09-27T22:08:00.008-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-07T21:57:12.983-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Jack Davis in North Carolina</title><content type='html'>The Southeast Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society has their get together here in Asheville,NC this weekend. I met Jack Davis, Nick Meglin and Duck Edwing from MAD magazine. At the Asheville Veterans Affairs Medical Center we drew some of the patients.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Avlflierprf3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 607px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Avlflierprf3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/6cartoon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 353px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/6cartoon.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is me with Jack Davis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/5cartoon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 324px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/5cartoon.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/1cartoon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 333px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/1cartoon.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/3cartoon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 590px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/3cartoon.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2cartoon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 333px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/2cartoon.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-6478348282848116610?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/6478348282848116610/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=6478348282848116610' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/6478348282848116610'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/6478348282848116610'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-met-jack-davis.html' title='Jack Davis in North Carolina'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-620282553078451487</id><published>2009-09-22T17:37:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T14:53:29.618-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Nick Cave Caricature</title><content type='html'>Singer, writer and actor Nick Cave.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/NCave.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 548px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/NCave.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/NC3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 268px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/NC3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-620282553078451487?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/620282553078451487/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=620282553078451487' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/620282553078451487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/620282553078451487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/09/nick-cave-caricature.html' title='Nick Cave Caricature'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-3640665782055494115</id><published>2009-09-22T11:43:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T14:53:29.619-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Sophia Loren Caricature</title><content type='html'>I want to draw more celebrities and here is one of Sophia Loren. Done with a charcoal pencil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/SLL3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 612px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/SLL3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Soph.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 494px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Soph.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-3640665782055494115?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/3640665782055494115/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=3640665782055494115' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3640665782055494115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3640665782055494115'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/09/sophia-loren.html' title='Sophia Loren Caricature'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-3214929156986737581</id><published>2009-09-21T11:36:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-21T11:51:17.725-04:00</updated><title type='text'>2009 ISCA Annual Convention</title><content type='html'>The first week of November I am attending the International Society of Caricature Artist's convention. This year it will be held in Sandusky, Ohio. Each year the convention has a guest speaker. This year is special. There will be four guest speakers from Mad magazine! &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://caricature.org/index.php?page=convention-upcoming"&gt; Go here to learn more about the convention. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/MADconvention.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 572px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/MADconvention.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-3214929156986737581?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/3214929156986737581/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=3214929156986737581' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3214929156986737581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3214929156986737581'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/09/2009-isca-annual-convention.html' title='2009 ISCA Annual Convention'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-7781326030183229774</id><published>2009-09-16T12:55:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T14:52:56.918-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature Videos'/><title type='text'>Blue Tongue</title><content type='html'>This is David op De Beeck, a new member of the  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://caricature.org/"&gt; International Society of Caricature Artists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; I thought giving him a blue tongue would be fun. The drawing was done on the odopod.com drawing site. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://sketch.odopod.com/sketches/94477"&gt; Watch its recording here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Beeck.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 279px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Beeck.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/d9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 331px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/d9.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-7781326030183229774?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/7781326030183229774/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=7781326030183229774' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7781326030183229774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7781326030183229774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/09/blue-tongue.html' title='Blue Tongue'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-771470978625412445</id><published>2009-09-09T13:01:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T14:51:21.547-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Young Couple</title><content type='html'>Meet this couple visiting Asheville. This caricatures has a little more detail and analysis compared to my faster festival drawings. The lines are more crisper and I added the shading. Did you notice I only gave her one ear ring? It happens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF11-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 546px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF11-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF12-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 339px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF12-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-771470978625412445?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/771470978625412445/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=771470978625412445' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/771470978625412445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/771470978625412445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/09/young-couple.html' title='Young Couple'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-4556520150432802592</id><published>2009-09-07T13:05:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T14:56:16.543-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Lexington Avenue Arts &amp; Fun Festival</title><content type='html'>Happy Labor Day! Yesterday I drew festival caricatures at LAAFF, the&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://lexfestasheville.com/index.php?c=home"&gt; Lexington Avenue Arts &amp; Fun Festival&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;I know I am doing a fair job when my customers are smiling. =)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 684px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF8.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 343px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF7.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 625px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 573px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 623px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 687px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 574px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 342px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 619px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF9.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 402px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/LAF10.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-4556520150432802592?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/4556520150432802592/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=4556520150432802592' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4556520150432802592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4556520150432802592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/09/lexington-avenue-arts-fun-festival.html' title='Lexington Avenue Arts &amp; Fun Festival'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-7139534765935652493</id><published>2009-09-03T13:11:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T14:52:33.639-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Post-it Note Caricatures</title><content type='html'>Two ISCA members drawn with a PITT brush pen on a 3" by 3" post-it notes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/grRon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 430px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/grRon.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/RonCap2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 417px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/RonCap2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ron4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 427px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/ron4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Issac2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 492px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Issac2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-7139534765935652493?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/7139534765935652493/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=7139534765935652493' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7139534765935652493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/7139534765935652493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/09/issac-on-post-it-note.html' title='Post-it Note Caricatures'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-4698330196457654288</id><published>2009-09-01T17:36:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T14:52:33.639-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Nimo Naricature</title><content type='html'>A quick caricature sketch of a fellow member of the ISCA (International Society of Caricature Artists).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/nimo3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 509px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/nimo3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/geronimo2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 551px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/geronimo2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-4698330196457654288?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/4698330196457654288/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=4698330196457654288' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4698330196457654288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4698330196457654288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/09/nimo-naricature.html' title='Nimo Naricature'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-1662983916011567040</id><published>2009-08-21T13:45:00.008-04:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T14:52:13.305-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><title type='text'>Skull Sketch</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/skull.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 427px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/skull.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Understanding the structure and anatomy of a skull is very important. When I draw a live caricature I use this information to guide the exaggeration and likeness of the person. Above is a skull I drew on odosketch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://sketch.odopod.com/"&gt; odosketch.com website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://sketch.odopod.com/users/9609"&gt;At this link you can watch recordings of my drawings.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-1662983916011567040?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/1662983916011567040/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=1662983916011567040' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/1662983916011567040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/1662983916011567040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/08/skull-sketch.html' title='Skull Sketch'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-5007047182081012435</id><published>2009-08-11T22:37:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T14:56:16.543-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Caricatures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>Black Mountain Sourwood Festival</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/SW3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 325px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/SW3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/SW6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 277px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/SW6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/SW7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 594px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/SW7.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/SW4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 446px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/SW4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/SW5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 585px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/SW5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/SW1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 325px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/SW1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-5007047182081012435?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/5007047182081012435/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=5007047182081012435' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5007047182081012435'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/5007047182081012435'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/08/black-mountain-sourwood-festival.html' title='Black Mountain Sourwood Festival'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-427094100390938209</id><published>2009-08-09T19:38:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-11T10:07:45.740-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cartoons'/><title type='text'>Look here doggie</title><content type='html'>Here is one dog cartoon I drew last week. Trying to get him to look up was a challenge. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/dog0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 480px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/dog0.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/dog3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 425px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/dog3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/dog2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 425px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/dog2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/dog1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 425px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/dog1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-427094100390938209?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/427094100390938209/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=427094100390938209' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/427094100390938209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/427094100390938209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/08/look-here-doggie.html' title='Look here doggie'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-3070262085230229371</id><published>2009-08-06T12:57:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-11T10:18:13.423-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fine Art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Illustration'/><title type='text'>Portrait of Maria</title><content type='html'>A portrait with some exaggeration. I sketched it while sitting at the 34th annual Biltmore Village Art and Craft Fair last weekend. Drawn with a PITT artist brush pen and shaded with black Prisamacolor pencil and charcoal pencil. I post photographs of mine at fotocommunity.com and I saw the striking image of this little girl. It was taken by Kaleriya Bogoyavlenskaya from Baku, Azerbaijan. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Maria2-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 524px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Maria2-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Mariaphoto.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 425px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/Mariaphoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-3070262085230229371?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/3070262085230229371/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=3070262085230229371' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3070262085230229371'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/3070262085230229371'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/08/maria.html' title='Portrait of Maria'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365004.post-4196106603026777513</id><published>2009-07-31T11:50:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-11T10:08:31.376-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Caricature'/><title type='text'>55th Birthday</title><content type='html'>His wife wanted me to give him bigger ears.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/72IMG_7754.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 600px;" src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i202/BrianVasilik/72IMG_7754.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28365004-4196106603026777513?l=brianvasilik.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/feeds/4196106603026777513/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28365004&amp;postID=4196106603026777513' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4196106603026777513'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28365004/posts/default/4196106603026777513'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brianvasilik.blogspot.com/2009/07/55th-birthday.html' title='55th Birthday'/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04805513263236183868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oACT1LaovCQ/TjnsboJSA6I/AAAAAAAAA4k/gusY2PveYt8/s220/ACW1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
