Marks…to Erotic Art

For me, creating Art comes before the subject matter. I love the drama during the course of creating Art: How the different materials, transform from random mark placement to recognised forms of the human body, whether realistic or otherwise. It is the mess and sounds of the work in progress that adds to the experience of being an Artist.

For me, the human “animal” within the sexual arena allowed me to best connect the subject matter to the experience of being an Artist: There is the gradual build up of the image, to point of a state of transformation that can be deemed completion – the orgasmic state, whereby you have reached a high level of awareness but there is the underlying need for more (to add more to the work, or settle for the experienced gained so far).

The human body in a state of pose is a glory to look at but it is not what I would consider an experience to be a part of, or offer the mind the suggestion of living the experience. Which is why I paint and draw the sexual act, for the human body in various states of arousal and movement offers more colour, more variety of shape structures. How you make your marks, slow/soft, hard/fast can give the suggestion of the beginning, middle or end stages of the sexual act – it just offers more ingredients to explore within the mark making process of creating Art. Are the red, inflamed states of our body parts more interesting to view and experience, than the relaxed state of them in pose?

I have considered drawing from life, to have people pose for me but would people pose in high states of arousal or the ultimate question, would they pose within the sexual arena or commission such a work?

Pen drawing on paper: Licking in movement.

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