Santarotica Holiday Gallery Show

Ohhh, this is a spicy one!  Just turned in my drawing/painting today for the Santarotica Holiday Extravaganza Show at the White Trash Peg Gallery in LaSalle, IL next Thursday, 12/18 starting at 7 p.m.  I'm sure it will be going on until the midnight hours.  I'm just going to post a little tantalizing tidbit below...  this is the PG version of the R version.  Please just chill people, and don't be chilly.  In a world that is currently selling 50 Shades of Grey at Target, this is all meant to be good, Playboy-like fun.

Here you go--just a little foreplay...I'll post more next week.  I think this was about 30" x 36" on super heavyweight watercolor paper--it's a big one. (-;

Lust

I've thought for some time that I would like to have a separate blog for spicier drawings.  Is that bad to admit?  I don't think so... I mean, sometimes I just want to express that arena.* All the great painters did it---how many times did Picasso draw naked men and women and the act of sex?  Uh, A LOT. I mean it's a part of being human, after all.  Why does it have to be twisted around into something forbidden?

Can you imagine me posting any drawings of said nature on Facebook?  No problem, there. ha!  I remember when I included in a blog post, a clip of Tom Cruise in the movie, "Rock of Ages."  Oh, my gosh, that movie got a PG-13 rating, people!  Anyway, some woman wrote that she would not tolerate pornography and promptly de-friended me.  Just so you can check it out, here's the link to the post that caused THAT ruckus (see last film clip there)!  Feeling Awful? Have a Falafel.

Here's a tame painting of lust, just to keep on everyone's good side. (-;

 Oil, acrylic, pastel and ink on handmade Italian paper

*(Just a quick aside here--Does anyone remember Anne Rice who wrote the "The Vampire Chronicles" series?  (You know the Vampire Lestat?) She wrote, under the pseudonym A.N. Roquelaure--and other novels under Anne Rampling--the "Sleeping Beauty Trilogy" about BDSM--I mean, THOSE were the ORIGINAL "50 Shades of Grey."  Just giving you yet another example of someone else who had to unleash a little spice, too. (-;