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This is a commission I executed about a year and a half ago.The woman is supposed to look like Linda Evans. I didn’t post it because I was somewhat embarrassed by it. I’ll do whatever the client asks, but I don’t necessarily want the whole world to know about it. Now I rather like it. I was emulating EC era Wally Wood to the best of my ability, and I’m proud of how it turned out.
This is painted on the reverse of a flyer for Golden Apple Comics that I gessoed (mixed with red paint). The drawing is in black Prismacolor, painted into with gouache. Since it’s been cropped to 8″ x 10″ I assume it was included in the “Recycled Erotica” exhibition.
I’d guess this drawing was done to be included in “Secret Love” 4. Since it survives at 8.5″ x 11″ I assume it didn’t get into the Recycled Erotica exhibition. It’s done on the back of a WAND/LA (Women’s Action For Nuclear Disarmament) flyer.
I either drew this for my one man show at the One Way or for Secret Love #3. Notice that I did the artwork on a page of a newsletter for Black and White Men Together. It looks to have been done in gouache and
This is the original artwork for the flyer I did to help hype my one man exhibition at the One Way in 1989. The bulk of the artwork was acrylic paintings I did on grocery bags that I broke apart and gessoed on one side. The rest of the pieces were these drawings done on the back or front of old leaflets or pages of junk mail. Those pieces that went into the show had to be cut down to 8″x10″ so they could fit into the plastic jewel boxes I chose as my agent of display. Any pieces still surviving at 8.5″ x 11″ must not have gone into the exhibition.
This drawing may have been intending for my one man exhibition at the ONE WAY, a leather bar I used to frequent in Silverlake back in the late 80’s. I wasn’t into leather per se, but I found some of the guys hot. But my show didn’t go up until summer 1989 and many of these drawings I’ll be posting over the next few days are dated 1988, so I’m guessing I did them for inclusion in “Secret Love” #4.
I purchased “Secret Love” #2 at A Different Light Bookstore (a LGBT specialty bookstore) in Silverlake, California. “Secret Love” was a limited (very limited) edition art folio where one could send in 100 copies of anything one wanted, along with 10 dollars, and be included in the next issue. So I sent 100 front and back xeroxes of 2 of my homoerotic drawings for issue #3 and was jazzed when I received my contributor’s copy. With issue #4, I got ambitious, as I recall. I figured, why not send in 100 original drawings, all done on the back (or front) of whatever pieces of throw-away paper I had lying around. All the drawings would be done super fast (I set my timer for 5 minutes). I don’t know why I still have these drawings. I do know I don’t have a copy of “Secret Love” #4, so either it never happened or I ran out of gas. I don’t think the latter is the case since I re-purposed many of those drawings for my one man exhibition at the ONE WAY, entitled “Recycled Erotica”, as all the art was executed on Trash Paper.
Mister Clean, waiting for service. This sketch was drawn on the back of a piece of “Celebration Theatre” stationary; we had a lot of it around at my house as my late husband, John Callahan was the artistic director of Celebration Theatre for several years. In case you don’t know, Celebration Theatre was (is?) one of the, perhaps the, pioneering LGBT theatre in the country, founded by Chuck Rowland in the 60’s or 70s or 80s. If you’re curious, look it up on Wikipedia.
I sketched this on ledger paper. Later I tried to paint a version of it using acrylics but gave up.