Impression of the Harley-kie-dee ( pronounce Harley-key-day)
This is a day where people with a mental disability / down syndrome are invited to co-drive on motorcycles. This day makes them very happy. Next to the tour there is music and food.
Everybody does this for free. So I drew caricatures of the participants of this day.
One of the strangest environments I worked as a caricature-artist I was some days ago.
It was on a train. A party train. A group of a company makes a round trip on a train during a day and evening and haves a lot of fun. Drinking cocktails eating nice food.
The train did a traject between Baarn - Den Bosch - Haarlem - Baarn.
In Den Bosch the group was having a siteseeing and shopping day. But the most op the group weren't shopping but went to a terras drinking. So when they came back in the train they were all very happy of the drinks. Together with the cocktails served in the train. A lot of them Had a little to much. In Haarlem the group had to get out the train to see a performance of a singer.
For me it was a very heavy job. The shaking of the train, the guests who drunk a little to much and the space in the train which is very small.
I did survive it and now I look back to a strange , but funny experience.
Last week I had a job drawing caricatures during a sailing trip. The ship is a zeetjalk as they call it in Dutch . The name of this ship was de Toekomst ( the future)It's 27,5 meter long and 5,60 wide and can have groups up to 60 persons.
This day a group of 50 persons were having a day trip from Enkhuizen to Urk and back.
We were really sailing during the whole trip on the IJsselmeer. That's a big lake now, but it was a sea. The Dutch made a big dike and won land from the sea. The destination Urk used to be an island. It's now part of the new land. We had a pleasant day. There was a strong wind, so i had to draw in an angle of 45. On the one side I saw water, on the other side the air. That was a strange experience.
Born in Amsterdam. Now living in the Netherlands in a place near to Utrecht. Work as a caricature artist at corporate events, party's, trade shows etc since 1990.