DOUG SHANNON caricature artist

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

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Author Archive

Special Event Entertainment / Lafayette

By • Aug 30th, 2009 • Category: BLOGPOST, Club Functions, Company Event

This is the artist’s third year at an annual event this mammoth health club throws for its members. It was mostly 50+ couples, my favorite demographic for traditional media caricatures, and so I had a blast, with a long line of kibbitzing, wine-sipping hecklers. I brought along Laura Gilmore as well, to round out the [...]



College Mixer Caricaturist / Oakland

By • Aug 27th, 2009 • Category: BLOGPOST, EVENT

The artist was called upon for the second year in a row to draw caricatures for a back-to-classes event at Holy Names University in the Oakland Hills. I always seem to get the longest queue at schools and colleges, so with about an hour to go, I gave the last 20 in line numbers—wrote them [...]



College Event / Sonoma State

By • Aug 24th, 2009 • Category: BLOGPOST, EVENT, Recent Post

The artist was invited to draw caricatures, along with Marc Schmid, at “Big Night”, an annual back-to-school shindig for students at Sonoma State. Featured entertainment included an outdoor tent scene with music and who knows what, as well as a magician, comedians, face-painters and more, but we caricaturists still had the longest lines. I was [...]



Charity event entertainment / Sonoma County

By • Aug 24th, 2009 • Category: BLOGPOST, Club Functions, Company Parties & Picnics, EVENT

Food for Thought is a terrific organization that runs an organic grocery as well as  delivering food to Sonoma County AIDs patients. It takes a lot of volunteers, the type of folks that like to help and like to smile—great subjects for caricature artists! The artist was invited back for the second year now, along [...]



Company Picnic Entertainment / Mountainview

By • Aug 24th, 2009 • Category: BLOGPOST, Company Parties & Picnics

“You definitely have some amazing skills.” Danny McNiven, Production Design Team Tiny Prints is a successful custom greeting card company and they invited the artist to draw caricatures as entertainment for their annual company picnic. It was a good sized crowd with yummy eats and lots of happy faces. Here are a few especially good [...]



Picnic Artist / East Bay

By • Aug 16th, 2009 • Category: BLOGPOST, Club Functions, Company Event, EVENT

Three caricaturists at this event—Marc Schmid, Big Al and myself. IBEW is a friendly, family-oriented union that celebrates every year with a big shindig, complete with rock wall, BBQ steaks, a live band and Franco from Family Fun Airbrush Tattoos, who originally referred me for this gig three years ago. It was four hours of [...]



Company Picnic /San Rafael

By • Aug 16th, 2009 • Category: BLOGPOST, Company Event, Company Parties & Picnics, EVENT

Ray’s Catering hired this artist to entertain The Wine Exchange, a company that deals in a variety of alcoholic beverages, with caricatures at their company picnic. I drank water only, but had a blast drawing the lineup of happy faces. Pix on the way!



Company Picnic Caricature / San Jose

By • Aug 6th, 2009 • Category: BLOGPOST, Company Event, Company Parties & Picnics, Corporate Events, EVENT

The artist was asked by TIVO to provide entertainment for a company picnic, held under tents, for employees and their families. Anticipating big demand, The artist brought along two other caricaturists, Zach Trenholm and Marc Schmid, to help out. A great time was had by all, especially I hope, by the lady who waited in [...]



Commission Caricature

By • Aug 6th, 2009 • Category: BLOGPOST, CARICATURE ILLUSTRATIONS

The artist was commisssioned by this well known comedienne to create a caricature to be used in promotional material.



Human Resource Caricature / Mountainview

By • Aug 6th, 2009 • Category: BLOGPOST, CARICATURE ILLUSTRATIONS

This artist provides gift caricatures for all the new hires at a certain well known company HR department—kind of a right-of-passage thing. The department  hallway is lined with caricatures of young, attractive people with big ideas and bright futures.