DOUG SHANNON caricature artist

Event Entertainment and Gift Illustration for San Francisco Bay Area and Beyond.

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Author Archive

Company Picnic Caricaturist / San Rafael

By dougshannon • Sep 27th, 2009 • Category: BLOGPOST, Company Event, EVENT

This landscape architect firm threw a big bash at McNears Beach where the artist drew caricatures of employees and their families for five hours this Saturday. Fortunately it was perfect weather, without  the usual wind, and a great time was had by all.



By dougshannon • Sep 23rd, 2009 • Category: BLOGPOST, CARICATURE ILLUSTRATIONS

The human resources department of a well known silicon valley firm commissions the artist periodically to create caricatures of incoming staff. Here are a few recent additions that will be hanging in the hall soon.



Gift Caricature / Medical Group Practice

By dougshannon • Sep 23rd, 2009 • Category: BLOGPOST, CARICATURE ILLUSTRATIONS

The artist was commissioned to depict these doctors as superheroes—a fun project. I was able to use personal attributes in the caricatures, highlighting their superpowers. Hint: don’t mess with the guy with the golf club.



Winery Event / Napa Valley

By dougshannon • Sep 20th, 2009 • Category: BLOGPOST, Winery

This artist has been drawing caricatures at Charles Krug Winery for several years now at their annual “Tastings On The Lawn” event. It could be my favorite event of the year. Good food, great wine and live music in a congenial atmosphere makes for terrific caricature subjects. Here are two of my favorites.



Retail Promotion / Palo Alto

By dougshannon • Sep 14th, 2009 • Category: BLOGPOST

Neiman Marcus procured the artist to draw glamorous caricatures of shoppers at an annual in-store event. This couple was the only photo that took, though there were plenty of beautiful subjects to had.



Retail Promotion / San Francisco

By dougshannon • Sep 14th, 2009 • Category: BLOGPOST

Christian Dior arranged a special retail event for pampered pets and their owners, to which the artist was invited to draw live digital caricatures.When we ran out of dogs we worked with unleashed people.



Corporate Caricatures \ San Carlos

By dougshannon • Sep 14th, 2009 • Category: BLOGPOST, CARICATURE ILLUSTRATIONS

The artist was invited to the offices of a hot startup that wanted to do live digital caricatures for their engineering department. These averaged about 12 minutes apiece, and were delivered in both photo and digital form for later use. This gig was a lot of fun, and I’m looking forward to doing more on [...]



Club event / Menlo Park

By dougshannon • Sep 7th, 2009 • Category: BLOGPOST, Club Functions, Company Parties & Picnics, Recent Post

This is the fifth year the artist has been invited to help this country club celebrate their community and swim team, so I get to draw regular caricature updates of some pretty cute faces year after year. Here’s one of my favorites!



Wedding Party Caricaturist / San Francisco

By dougshannon • Sep 6th, 2009 • Category: BLOGPOST, Recent Post, Wedding Receptions

The artist was invited, along with the indefatigable Marc Schmid, to entertain the wedding guests at a speakeasy sort of club in the theater district called Bourbon and Branch—the branch refers to the juniper bush, I am guessing, an essential ingredient of gin, which is the other specialty of the house. The guests were from [...]



Gift Caricature

By dougshannon • Sep 1st, 2009 • Category: BLOGPOST, CARICATURE ILLUSTRATIONS, Commission Caricature

The subject of this gift caricature is a therapist with a Matt Damon crush, so the artist decided to depict a little wish fulfillment fantasy—Matt on the couch, baring his soul. The digital file was uploaded to the artist’s page at smugmug.com, where the Human Resource department client could order quality prints in any size, [...]