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Show Carvoon races - her specially i . ' is,; ' v x "' ' " 4 J ' . " . KAREN DeBIRK, caricature artist, sketches portraits at the Arts and Crafts Fair on the library lawn Saturday. it 'l 1 -( - - , -? 't ' - V- ' Y , . I n " ' ? : - t , ' . 4 - Y - N V , ' f , . - : ) ! ' , - ; '; . ' 4 '"?Y - -- ! "I Oif ' -. ' ' - , I ,l v ! etc y ' J , F 1 !'' I' ' i A FACE takes shape as Karen highlights and shades with pastels. She has drawn over 2500 cartoon portraits in the past two years. Karen DeBirk, caricature artist, starts each of her drawings with the eyes, because she says, "Eyes are the center of the face, and seem to work for me." "I watch for noticeable features and emphasize them," Karen commented. She h.Eis cartooned over 2500 portraits of interested passers-by in the past two years Karen, a recent Vernal resident, has a natural knack with faces. She has drawn cartoon portraits as a hobby since her early teens. A sketch takes Karen between five to seven minutes to complete. She draws the Ifeatures in with a felt tip pen and then shades and highlights the face with pastels. She works on "a good qua'lity art paper pad," tacked to an easel. Kiaren's first exposure to Vernal was at the Beta Nu Arts and Crafts Fair Saturday on the lawn in front of the library. She sketched over 60 faces that day., Most of them were young people. Whem everyone else was leaving, Karen was still busy at her easel sketching still another face. Karen, who is from Salt Lake City, started sketching cartoon portraits at Lagoon on Saturdays two years ago with: several other sidewalk portrait artislts. Two summers ago she and her husbiind, Larry, went on a three week face ; drawing trip. Karen sketched . faces; on the sidewalks at State Fairs in Soutl Dakota and Iowa. At Iowa Fair she sketched faces for eleven days straight, over one hundred each day. She once sketched at a company party as part of the entertainment and ended up caricaturing everyone present. "Most of the people who want me to drawj them are between 18 and 25," says Karen. "At Lagoon I sketched lots of couiples on dates." Karen had on display Saturday cartoon pictures she had done of several famous faces. Easily recogriized were Richard Nixon, Burt Reynolds, Ted Kennedy, George Burns and Barbara Striesand. "I haven't done them in person," Karen explained, "I sketched them from magazine pictures." Karen and Larry plan to be a part of the Vernal area for several years. Larry,, a recent graduate of the University of Utah, is a project engineer with Jalco at the Bonanza Poyeii' Plant. |
