This was drawn in 1989, as part of a one-man show at the “One Way”, a gay leather bar in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States. The show was titled “Recycled Erotica”. As part of the show, I did a series of 8” x 10” pen and ink illustrations of well-known comic strip and book characters in sexual situations.
I revisited this subject matter in 1991, for a one man show at “A Different Light” bookstore in Silverlake, Los Angeles, California, United State, called “Free Art”. This time the originals were 34” x 48” inched, on full sheets of 3 ply Strathmore Art Paper.
In honor of Halloween, I’m posting a drawing I finished on the evening of September 11, 2001. I’d been working on it for a while, over 10 years in fact. I had originally intended it to be part of the “Free Art” series of drawing the were displayed at A Different Light in Silverlake back in 1991, but couldn’t figure out how to design the cavorting demons. Then, in the summer of 2001, I acquired a catalogue for Mr. S., a retailer of leather/bondage equipment and was duly inspired. But the events of that morning inspired me to finish the work. As with the other “Free Art” drawings, it is done on a full 30 x 40″ sheet of 3 ply cold press Strathmore art paper. It’s still for sale, framed, in case someone wants to buy it.
