Red Region Inferno

Ever have one of those nights when friends are over, and everyone is sexing it up till the break of dawn, but you just need a break, and your kicking there watching it all, and you get a groovy idea to grab some pencils and your sketch book?

For those who aren’t down with sketch books and art supplies just think camera.

So… inspired by the moving gif theme of a few weeks back I decided to make this.

I know it sucks.

It is the second moving gif I have ever made.
If you missed the theme week and didn’t see my first one, you can see it here.
It is a lot better than this stupid one.
Then again I used synchronized photos for that one, and for this I just stretched my sketch.

Oh well.

Here is the real sketch if your interested.

I did it with prismacolor ART STIX if any of you happen to know what those are.
If not, just visualize the inside of a colored pencil made the size of a pencil with no wood on it and square.
Or think of a square crayon made out of what you find in a colored pencil instead of the usual soft wax.

Note:
Since not all people are comfortable with cameras being pulled out during parties of the naked frolicking kind this is a fabulous alternative.
Oddly enough though it seems that sketch books and pencils make people more self conscious than cameras do if they are not used to such things.
No worries of being “outed” for their choice of social activity, but a lot more worry as to what the person with a sketch book is seeing compared to a person holding a camera.

Time to see green instead of red.

I ain’t Irish even though I get guessed as being so sometimes because of my freckles.
It is just a day of green beer for me and most years an excuse to stay out late.

Don’t think I am going to be partying it up much this year, but I hope to get lucky in other ways.

Irish or not… Happy St Paddy’s Day!

I don’t dig those chocolate covered cherries that come in the big boxes.
Sweet overload.
I do enjoy food play though and everyone has different tastes in sweets.

This is the sweet sticky stuff from inside the chocolate.

She made me eat the cherry.
She made me really sticky.
She made me cum.

I may not like eating those candies myself… but I wont complain about having the stuff dripped all over my cock if this is the result.

This was a custom bit of work done for a client with some slightly odd ideas.
The idea is based off of fantasy, a certain set of tastes and on a drug that doesn’t exist called Spelled H from a book in the Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony.
The drug in the book is super addicting and a one way ticket to Hell.

To make this image I took a photo and printed it out so I could work on it with colored pencils and acrylic paints.
I then took a picture of the altered picture and worked on that with a photo editor.
You are seeing that version.
After that though I had it printed again except by someone who has a huge printer that uses archival inks, and then I used translucent acrylic glazes on the image for the clients final version.

Yep… I’m an art whore.
‘We are the people that can find whatever you may need
If you got the money honey we got your disease.’

Since I have been showing some of my mini sized erotic paintings I thought maybe it would be a good idea to show one with a jump up in size.

This is still not a big painting, and is still smaller than the normal canvas size I paint on by a long way.
Just a tiny jump up in size makes it so much more comfortable though on my end with a paint brush.
Measurements on this are twelve inches by sixteen inches.
Acrylic paint on stretched canvas.
Tittle is “It’s happening”

This was almost not my Wanton Wednesday post this week.
I was going to use This Post as my Wanton Wednesday, but thought is was a bit weird for some.
I’m not in the pic, but it is me who took the picture and did the digital editing.
After I posted it I wished I had used it instead of the painting because it seemed when coupled with my words to be perfectly suited after all.
So… if you get the urge check out (Through a straw) as well.

The prettiest girl
I ever saw
Was sippin’ bourbon
Through a straw

I walked right up
and sat right down 
and bought that girl
another round

I put my hand
upon her knee
she said young man
your teasing me.

I put  my hand
upon her thigh
she said young man
your much to shy.

It was the “was sippin’ bourbon through a straw” part that stuck with me.
I always had a thing for girls with the taste of bourbon in their skin.
My first few naughty bar drinkers had that alcohol through the skin taste and it imprinted or something.
The cadence song gave me visions of those types of girls.

Times change of course. I was young then and those sexy bar girls were barely and rarely of age to even be in a bar. Their sexy newness and youthful appearance coupled with wild abandonment was hot.
If I see such girls in a bar now I sometimes feel sorry for them because I know through experience what usually causes a young pretty creature to hit the bars and go home with whoever has the best game of the night on a regular basis.
I know that those beautiful creatures will usually become sad, spiteful, haggard creatures before their time.

I also have no interest in their enthusiastic false sexual bravado. Though I can appreciate their beauty I need more. They lack skills and empathy more times than not.
Even so… I remember what lusting such girls was like.

How is any of that related to this picture?
Just the existence of the straw.

Once that song was implanted in my head it has always resurfaced whenever I see a pretty girl sucking on a straw.

Obviously it need not have anything to do with bourbon.

This fabulous image is courtesy of my strange mind, a Sony brand digital camera, and multiple shots of espresso before I ran it through Photoshop.

I’m thinking it would look great in my favorite lesbian owned, pierce county, alternative music playing, slightly avant-garde themed coffee shop, but as progressive as they pose to be they are still play it safe, ass kissing, mostly socially correct, pansy girls with not enough moxie to even dare to show something of this sort.

That fun little statement is sure to cause a fun conversation about art, posers, being socially acceptable, business, and maybe even feminists next time a certain person who makes a dang good mocha comes in to get a session on her tattoo.

The Wanton Wednesday theme for this week was to create an animated gif  with photos of yourself.
This was what I came up with.

I have never made animated gif before and though I probably have some software on one of my computers that does it, I just looked online for an animated gif maker (which I didn’t even know existed online) like Lilly suggested. I used gickr.com and they automatically put a little .com stamp on it. I don’t mind though. It is a sweet and easy way to make an animated gif. If I would have known though I would have made the RedRegionInferno.com text a tad smaller so it wouldn’t have overlapped.
(see note at bottom of post)

The animated gif above was my third attempt
My first was done with unedited photos, but I thought it was way to PORN for this blog.
My next one was done with images I had run through some photo editor skins and looked like this next picture.

I actually liked this one, but once it was set to moving it was creepy looking.
It also just looked super dorky. I don’t mind looking dorky myself, but I prefer my cock to look handsome and desirable.

The one I went with I thought looked awesome.
The pictures I used to put it together are pretty old, but I know the girl in them peeks at this blog every once in a full moon… so I am wondering if she will see them and recognize that it is her.
If she does I think she will get a smile out of it.
On the other hand I cropped in so close that maybe she wont recognize herself or somebody else will think it is them.
I am half expecting a half dozen or so “Was that me?” type questions over the next month or so as I randomly run into people.

If you wonder why I always stamp my images with the domain they are on… it is because people hotlink the heck out of certain ones and eat my bandwidth. They also grab and re-post them sometimes. I really don’t care as long as people link back, but they rarely do. I stamp them though so that people will know where they came from even when credit isn’t given. Problem solved.
With my domain on it I am digging when people re-post my stuff. It is a compliment in a way. I still prefer a source/credit link, but I know that is not how the majority of the Internet works.
The Internet is about sharing. I would not post anything online that I would freak out about people taking/using. I expect it even. I just like credit where credit is due.
If you too have issues with people grabbing your images without giving credit I suggest you start branding your pictures too.

As an extra mention on that subject… for me it adds credibility to a site when I see credits given.
If you are one of those people who grab images/video/text off of other sites regularly and don’t give credit… maybe you should.

I have been pumping out an average of three erotic themed paintings a week since the beginning of the year. My mind is going soft from it. Sexy stuff brain fry.
I tried putting a few unfinished large canvases up on the easel to get away from it, but they are unfinished and piled against a wall for a reason it seems.
Good stuff that needs done when the feeling hits is what they are.
Most the crap I just paint over with white and then do something new.

I needed to release myself from sex themed hell.
I needed to just whip something out that didn’t matter and could suck.

So… This is what I made.

It is my wife. She doesn’t like it it and not just because I did it super fast in a cheesy illustrative, fantasy, romance graphic novel or card game style.
Nope, she doesn’t even hate it because it is so small and she says my small stuff all sucks.
She hates it because of the overall feeling and her expression.

I asked if she wanted me to rosy it up for her, but she said that wouldn’t have help. Even when I told her it would only take ten minutes or so to completely re-do her flesh tones into something not so ethereal she said no.
I said it would take me another ten or fifteen to warm the background and re-curve the mouth and eyes resulting in a whole new look… nope.
My cheesy little break from sexy art got a bad review. I should have just tossed it in the garbage after I was done, but my daughter had seen it and loved it “That’s mommy!” so I didn’t.

The Painting:
8″x10″ on a stretched canvas with acrylics.
I first did a rough pencil sketch on the canvas of my wife’s face and then painted in the background.
Didn’t really know what I planned with the background so I started with a river scene. You can tell how that went over I’m sure.
F the river… I painted over it real fast with the branches. I never even got rid of the river first.
I then painted her a little shirt and did the flesh.
I’d planned on wasting just a couple hours, but Mary Poppins had started right about when I started the painting and now it had finished. (My daughter was watching it)
I blame my time wasting on the river fiasco. (It was a fiasco to me)
Anyways… I finished up the flesh and did the hair and pretty daisy chain. I love painting hair. I love drawing hair. It is just fun as can be. It is so fluid. Painting water isn’t fluid, but hair is. Ain’t that strange.
Overall I ended up pretty much wasting half a day making this stupid picture that my wife disliked so much.
Yup… just to clear my mind.

Back to painting pictures of foot kissing.

So this chick comes in and she is a big fan of the group TOOL and also (as many TOOL fans are) a fan of Alex Grey’s artwork.
She want’s these eyes tattooed on her.
I do it.

While tattooing her she says she say on the artists site that he doesn’t allow tattoos of his work or some such thing.
I say it is personal expression, fuck that.
I went to his site alexgrey.com and clicked his use of images link.
Holy crud… he does go on about tattoos (and everything else under the sun)
TATTOOS:
For no fee, you may have a tattoo made from Alex’s art under the following conditions:
1) Employ the best possible artist who is capable of rendering the best reproduction of the work and thereby giving the most beautiful results.
2) Send a good quality photo of the finished tattoo with your name to info@alexgrey.com. (work in progress photo also requested but optional).
3) Grant free use of the photo of your tattoo for any subsequent publication approved by Alex Grey.
I create art. I do it for my lively hood. I may not be as famous as Alex Grey and therefore not as ripped off as him, but my stuff does get jacked pretty often. Just yesterday I found a site selling crap prints of five of my paintings without permission and with nothing going to me. The battle must ensue, I am constantly dealing with stupid stuff like that.
I have even received advertisements in the mail trying to sell me my own poorly copied tattoo flash designs for MY shop. (That has happened multiple times) People are thieves.
Alex Grey has been ripped off tons, I’ve seen it, and he is obviously paranoid about it because he has a HUGE page yakking about copyrights, use, credits, etc…
Still, he does get that without fans and grassroots promotion an artist is nothing.
He does allow some use.

For example:
LIMITED USE ON A WEBSITE:
You are permitted to use ONE image on your personal (non-commercial) web site with the following stipulations.
1. A link to AlexGrey.com must be visible WITH the image.
2) The image used must be no larger than 400 pixels/ 3 inches in either dimension.

2) Images MAY NOT be used on the homepage.

3) Images MAY NOT be used as backgrounds, cropped, or otherwise presented in a manner which obscures the entire image in any way.

4) Images may not be used on web sites deemed inappropriate.

5) Images may not be modified, colored, animated, adapted, collaged, used as a graphic design element, or altered in any way.

To use an image as an Avatar:

1) Images must not exceed 200 pixels in any dimension

2) Images used must have the Alex Grey web site address plainly visible (alexgrey.com). If the requested and approved image is not already available with the URL text as described, we will create one for use under the terms of agreement.

3) Images may not be modified, colored, animated, or used as an element in a graphic design under any circumstances unless through separate written license between Alex Grey and the specific web site.

I find all this funny because it is all so hard (impossible) to enforce.
I know this for a fact because besides my art I have dealt in an industry that is filled with thieves more than almost any other. PORN
Yes, I took tons of pictures of thousands of girls over the years.
I hold copyright and posses the model releases along with the age verification.
These images have been sold to other companies/websites for limited use. Very strict contracts are used and there is also the fear of the powers that be coming down on thieves asking either for model release proof or age verification. One could cause huge monetary problems and the other prison time even, but still… people steal the images and post them all over the place. They even use them for print materials which is ten times as dumb because you can’t just delete and say sorry when a cease and desist is all that has been asked of you.
*sigh* It is all a bunch of crap… but, wtf on a huge page like that saying what you can and can’t do?
I think it will only discourage the more honest people anyways who would have given credit.
The douche bags who steal for profit will still be ripping off the creator of visual media and getting away with it.
Then again… maybe he is right. Maybe that is how it has to be.
Maybe all of us will soon be listing our rules.
Ignorance of the law is not an excuse in court.
Maybe it is the artists responsibility to have a page such as Alex Grey has.
again… *sigh*
Things used to be so much more simple.

If somehow you read this far you may be interested in reading up on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

I also recommend for those of you who are not familiar with Alex Grey’s work to visit his site as it is some pretty amazing stuff he does.
If you do know his work, but have never visited his site I recommend you do so and hit his “early works” and check out his self portraits through the years. Super cool.

Valentine’s day…
I woke up yesterday morning with a rock hard cock and was not thinking of the romantic.
I know I’m supposed to be full of love and whatnot on Valentine’s day, but I woke up desiring newness.
Newness is sexy in itself.
I wasn’t  in the mood for romantic loving.
Naughty is what I wanted. Naughty, teasing, slutty fun.

I needed a naughty Valentine.

Didn’t happen though.
Instead I work  all day.
It was just another day.
My wife had woken with a sore throat and I have a cold.
No blow-job even for Valentine’s night.
Poor Selfish me.
The world must be ending.

So… this picture is one I already had. It is from a photo set I haven’t showed on here. (maybe someday I will)
I screwed around with a photo editor to give it some zing. Don’t really dig how it came out, but I procrastinated and didn’t have much time.
Maybe I will screw with a few more of her pictures and make a file called “For Next Valentine’s Day” because the girl is super cute and so is her costume.

Want more Valentine’s day fun? Check out my Valentine Lust post.
More Valentine’s babble and a very sexy picture of a very sexy girl who tastes like watermelon.

Happy Wednesday.
Be Naughty!