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Chicago History

Jody
Jody wears purple Worth
Miss Moody
Miss Moody enters in Red
Dimple
Dimple wears the Fortuny
Barbara
Barbara in Pink Infanta
IT Manager
IT Manager wears Caillot
Lincoln cradles Historian
Gisele & Marcel from Montreal

 

About the Work

You'll find me drawing visitors at the Chicago History Museum on an afternoon about once every week.  Parties in Chicago are great, but drawing people from all over the world is truly awesome. It is an honor.  I'm set up in the spacious, sun-drenched gift shop and I draw who ever sinks down in that luxurious black chair in front of me.  It's free. People often ask twice and yes, it really is free. It's a generous gift from the Chicago History Museum to the curious who set foot on our shores.  So, give me your tired, your tourists, your locals, your interesting, your interested.  I'll draw you in the theme of the day.

The theme of most days until July 2009 will be Chic Chicago.  I'll draw you in the fabulous gown of your choice. For information about this exhibit and announcements of when I'm scheduled to draw there--remember, free!--please, visit the Chicago History Museum Shop page.

Sometimes special events will preempt the Chic Chicago theme.  For example, during "Fire Frenzy"  week I drew everyone as a determined survivor of the Great Chicago Fire  of October 1871, including the high school kids from Bari, Italy, who came by on their field trip that week.  The Fourth of July also gets a special treatment when I draw everyone as a red-white-and-blue patriot.

 

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