A blast from the past. This drawing was done on stationery from Celebration Theatre, back when my late husband, John Callahan, was the creative director (of Celebration Theatre)/
This is a rough for an illustration I did for a gay rag (I forget the name) illustrating an article on public sex. A. J. Epstein was the art director.
Good ol’ boys? Friends with benefits? A florist and a hairdresser meeting up at the Purple Parrot beer bust?
It’s hard to tell, but I painted this first with metallic paint then drew into it with india ink.
This was a flyer I did for my show at “A Different Light”, a LGBT bookstore in Silverlake, California. The copy pretty much says it all. I was employed at the time as a storyboard artist at Warner Animation, at the Batman Animated TV series. I handed this flyer, and others in a series, out at work. I was disappointed that only 3 people from work showed up to the opening. I later was told that I had a reputation at WB as being a gay activist. I was non-plussed. I had been involved with Act-up LA for 2 or 3 years at this point; if they wanted to meet gay activists they should go to some of those meetings. I was just a fair-weather activist; the work always came first, activism a distant second.
This drawing, in Prismacolor, was probably intended for inclusion in “Secret Love”.
This is the original that I used for the flyer for the “Recycled Erotica” one man show I had at the One Way, back in mid ’89. You can see the flyer in the DAILY DERRIERE posting for May 4, 2016.