DOUG SHANNON caricature artist

Ravenswood hosted a hundred or so wine sales people from all over the world. Here are a few caricatures.

Google had a contest for kids and teens to do their logo art, you know, the one that changes every day. I drew the kids but also a bunch of Googlers. A lot of fun things to do there including face painting by my pal Jodi Carr, who you can see in the background. My [...]

This caricature was commissioned by a grad student as a gag gift for a beloved professor.

Three evenings drawing caricatures of technical writers and editors from all over the world. The pair you see in the slide show are editors of rival German magazines. Sorry about the picture quality, the lighting confused my camera!

Here is a quickie—a corporate team of eight who wanted to liven up things up a little. This is the sort of thing I can turn over in a day if you catch me at the right time. Client comments: “This is PERFECT! My CEO loves it!” 

This mitzvah was held at the Freidman Center, planned and executed by DJ Holiday, one of Sonoma County’s fave party planners.

The World Agriculture Expo in Tulare is a monster show, Disneyland for Aggies. Alltech is a player there and they like to give personal swag for their customers. I made up templates in advance for these digital caricatures, which were printed out and ironed on to T-shirts right at the show. It was a bit [...]

Lots of fun caricatures here at Trader Vic’s. Forgot my camera unfortunately.

Walker Zanger is an international designer and producer of incredible kitchen and bath decor, and they were participating in an open house at the Galleria, south of market. Lots of stylish art lovers here, excellent caricature subjects all!

Melissa Teaff Catering is famous around the North Bay as the best of the best, so it’s always an honor to get a call from her. In this case it was for a party for her own crew. We had a blast. I think everyone went home with a caricature.