CLICK HERE for Court's caricatures of famous people (30 celebrity portraits courtesy of Izismile.com).After Levitated Apples lauded some overseas contenders for the title of This Blog's Best Caricaturist, some of this continent's connoisseurs drew our attention to the award-winning work of Court Jones.
We bow to their wisdom and good taste. The always-busy Court Jones lives in San Diego, California but his abilities are such that he could be hard at work within minutes of landing in any centre of communications, anywhere in the world.
FUN ART OR FINE ART? THAT IS THE QUESTION.
Court is in the happy position of constantly walking the line between caricature illustration and fine art. He began drawing caricatures professionally in 1996 at theme parks and private events. But he was traditionally trained in fine arts at the Watts Atelier of the Arts, in Encinitas California, where, incidentally, he now teaches.
In additon to instructing at the Watts Atelier, he also occasionally lectures to various artists' groups like the National Caricaturists Network, the Southern California Cartoonists Society, the Imperial Beach Art Kids, the Colored Pencil Society of America and the San Diego Portrait Society.
To see a short video of a digital painting demo Court Jones did for the Southern California Cartoonists Society, click here.
In 2005, Mad Magazine's Tom Richmond illustrated Court Jones on the cover of Exaggerated Features, the official quarterly newsletter of the National Caricaturists Network, shortly after Court won Caricature Artist of the Year at the group's national convention.
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