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                                                         Green and Ethical, and (above all):                
                                                                                         "pro bono, pro mundum, contra malum!" (I know, not trendy at all.)    



Working with models:
             

To keep up with the competition you have to distort. I never got used to that. 
In the 60's this wasn't as easy as all that anyway.
    wENDY

      In those days the work was done
by hand, in black and white  and in the darkroom. 
Nobody understood, nobody cared; they still don't. 



gERTI

Early attempts, with an old camera:  Gerti
(who is now a "Geheimrat" to the Austrian government)
here photographed at the nudist camp near Vienna.
Early attempts at taming a color enlarger.



      

Anne, a casual vine cellar acquaintance
photographed in my studio in Vienna.
 

Deriving art from model photographs.
How do you take the obvious further?
The border line between art and craft.

       

  
    The ravishes of time documented.  Logistics having to do with hair
required all manner of acrobatics.  But we had done something
the photos became more important with time,
so did the artwork by now.
               cINDY



Working, photographing and drawing in the field
brings its own challenges and advantages.
Logistics are fierce rewards are promising:
    dv    DWNG







    Kathi


   






SWING LOW   IN vie        sandi alison  




Settings make a difference and should be chosen with care:
        eLEONORE   


The problem remains: You got to find a purpose,
just sicking a nude into a frame isn't enough.
Got to derive something beyond the obvious.
I    I


   

Never squat with your spurs on ....

This one carries a message well.  As the model
contemplates the dollar bill for her efforts.
  
  model & drawing     








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JLR's        dwng  
To see it morph again you'll have to refresh.



   



synthetic       



Masturpainting is not a solution.
             





The limitations of a computer always demands more equipment;
moor and more and more.  No satisfaction in sight.
The super wide monitor above requires
a different graphics card
and a faster
computer.
More
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Oops.....one patch got away! 
 On top of that:  No paying customers.
The artwork doesn't match their couch ....
           


        Sally   
Not even for personalized portraits.
              


Susanna Wohlsein (on the left) vanished in Berlin.
No idea what had happened.

qr patch

If Donald Trump had done any of these
they would sell.
As they
are
no
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