Back in the mid-1990’s during my erstwhile would-be artists days, I avidly sought models to sit for live drawing sessions all the time. It was a good way to attempt to remain creative while at the same times socializing with the abundant natural resources in the beach communities where I lived filled with fun, attractive, permissive females. <\/p>\n
This photo is from a 35mm black and white, what looks like probably 400 speed T-Max, colorized. The woman I’d met recently and invited over to my apartment on Hornblend Street in Pacific Beach and asked her to get naked, as I would, which she did, and set up my wide angle with the tripod to take a pic over my shoulder. It was 1994 or thereabouts, possibly 1993, and this was the height of technology for me: manual focus with my Nikon FM2 and a Tamron analog lens. I hadn’t yet started Reviewer Magazine, that was yet a couple of years away. But I knew I wanted an outlet that provided me with more creative freedom than the publishing venues available at the time. <\/p>\n
There were so many willing girls around at that time it actually got boring. I’d see a girl I liked in a store or a nightclub and invite them over, ask them to undress for me and they would. I could have started a porn business if I had the predisposition but my temperament was always about art and beauty and not actually capturing hardcore imagery even when the girl was inclined. Had I been in Los Angeles and associating with a different crowd and seen all the money the adult cottage-industry participants were making up there in the San Fernando Valley perhaps my direction would have shifted.<\/p>\n
Here’s the original version:<\/p>\n [Live Model] Another Day Another Girl Back in the mid-1990’s during my erstwhile would-be artists days, I avidly sought models to sit for live drawing sessions all the time. It was a good way to attempt to remain creative while at the same times socializing with the abundant natural resources in the beach communities where I lived filled with fun, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":19320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1578,1895,1894],"class_list":["post-19317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","tag-art-model","tag-life-drawing","tag-live-model"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/DSC_7956-copy-colorized-1000px.jpg?fit=1000%2C667&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18866,"url":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2022\/04\/16\/mission-beach-art-model\/","url_meta":{"origin":19317,"position":0},"title":"Mission Beach Art Model","author":"Reviewer Rob","date":"April 16, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Check me ouuuuut. 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