Nudity in Missouri?

A Fair Catch by Norman Rockwell,by A Fair Catch by Norman RockwellNorman Rockwell knew what he wanted and wouldn’t settle for less, even when it came to models.Peter Rockwell recalled a 1956 trip to New York he made with his father, who needed a model to pose nude for a painting of an old lobster man with a mermaid trapped in his lobster pot.“When we got to the modeling studio, there were six young women waiting, each holding a photo of themselves in the nude,” recalled Rockwell.“In the painting, my father carefully covered the mermaid’s breasts with the bars of the lobster pot, but some still called it lurid and pornographic.”

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Social networks

I’v been working on social networking, myspace, flickr, mybloglog, it can get pretty crazy but it is worth it – it’s all about presence and marketing. sometimes it’s hard to keep them all straight but they are slowly developing.

The Naked Face

Many of my pieces are missing faces…. usually I have obscured them or edited them from the composition. I’ve been thinking for a while on it, and I wanted to bring my facelessness to the next level and make them more confrontational.I work faceless for a number of reasons.

Paris Hilton is Dead

“Campaign to Rescue Women of Youth” featuring “The Paris Hilton Autopsy” offers a cadaveric nude Paris Hilton, laid out with twisted body and opened abdominal cavity on a coroner’s table, while her cell phone remains in her grip. The ‘unglamorous’ display which includes support material from anti-drunk driving organizations counters“the disturbingly glamorized trend of Hollywood’s ‘girls gone wild’,” according to gallery director, David Kesting.Paris Hilton, arrested for a DUI last year, previously released a marginally effective PSA concerning drunk driving. This latest PSA includes a website by Capla Kesting, which offers high school educators an icebreaker for discussing drunk driving’s consequences.

Nude in Progress

This is one of the pieces I have been working on lately. the figure is complete but I will be adding a glazed element to the painting in full color…. I could see it in my head every time i closed my eyes but I was afraid to work without a model and proper lighting.