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So what I am to surmise from that then?

So what I am to surmise from that then?

My fella and I were sitting watching a film last night over a glass of wine and the house phone rang.

I picked it up and answered it and a man’s voice asked if I was Jackie?

Yes I replied, and he went on to say that he was interested in modelling for me for when I do one of my art classes.

I replied to him that the only way that I would be drawing him would be if he was paying me.

He said he didn’t have a lot of money but could afford £150. reveal-the-craving

I asked if he had any ideas of poses he might want.

He said that he would leave it to me to decide.

Ok I said, and asked him to email me so photos of him so that I could see what he looked like.

He seemed surprised at that and asked why, and I said it was so that I could see what his body shape looked like.

He said that he could come over to my studio in Leicestershire.

Ok, I said, and asked where he lived.

Sussex.

Sussex? It’ll take you two or three hours to get to me.

Yes, he said, he didn’t mind, it was his choice to do that journey. And he wanted to be drawn in a group by others, to which I replied that there wouldn’t be a group, only me and that part of the money he would be paying me would be for a chaperone.

Chaperone? He repeated in surprise.

Yes, I said, Chaperone, I’m a woman artist who does erotic art, and I use a chaperone.

He said in that case  there’s no point in us going any further with this conversation and I won’t bother.

Ok I said as he put the phone down.

So now I am intrigued, as to what exactly did he think was going to happen?

 

 

I've been an artist all of my life, and my paintings now hang on walls in Europe, USA and Canada. I'm working on getting them on the other continents! My wide range of artwork has been exhibited nearer to home in the East Midlands, with the Guild of Erotic Artists at Beaumont Hall Studios in Hertfordshire, and at "Erotica", Olympia, London. I have also been featured alongside my work in the Guild of Erotic Artists book (volume 2). I love to create dramatic interest in my pictures, whether it’s to paint an unusual landscape, or just to utilise dramatic lighting in my figure drawings or strong colour in my animal portraits. Delighting in the spontaneous tendencies of watercolour adds an interesting and distinctive look to my paintings, some of which are purposefully ambiguous, enabling the viewer to use their own interpretation of my artwork. I also love to hide images, and humour within my paintings, whether it’s a secret message, or an erotic couple hidden within a landscape, or even an erotic landscape where the couple are camouflaged as the features of the land itself. I am equally happy painting in oils, acrylics or watercolours and love to draw with pencil or ink. I have also developed the very effective method of drawing using white pencil on black card which creates dramatic pictures by just picking out where the light catches the body and leaving the rest of the image to the imagination, in darkness. I can also utilise many different styles, whether it is realistic, abstract, surrealistic, erotic, fantasy or camouflage art where something is hidden within the painting. I'm just passionate about my art, whatever I paint! But, it doesn't matter how many landscapes or pet portraits I paint, its always the erotic stuff that people are interested in! I started blogging to share some of the strange conversations I have with the people I meet. But its evolved into far more than that now.

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