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My art book crowdfund is live til Oct. 14! Please help my last art project happen.

Demimonde The Live Drawing of Suzanne Forbes art book crowdfund campaignMy art career has come to an end. But I have one last big project!

This is your only chance to fund and purchase a book of my art!

For twenty years, I’ve used skills developed as a tv courtroom artist to live-draw LGBTQ+ and kink community. Now at the end of my working life, I want to preserve and share these portraits of cherished folx, many marginalized and often erased.

San Francisco Fetish Ball chapter from Demimonde: the live drawing of Suzanne ForbesYour 8.5″x 11″ (like A4), 200+ page hardcover copy of “Demimonde” includes color and b&w drawings of SF and Berlin kinksters, drag artists, and lots of trans beloveds!

Please help me make this happen.

It’s the biggest, deepest dream of my life, and it’s now or never.

Demimonde The Live Drawing of Suzanne Forbes art book crowdfund campaignHere’s how to help support and buy your copy of Demimonde: The Live Drawing of Suzanne Forbes!

Go to the link, choose “free support”, the option of having the E-book emailed, or choose having the physical book shipped to you.  Most payment forms are accepted.

This is the only way to buy the book.

It won’t be for sale on Amazon, at bookstores, or online after the crowdfund ends October 14. I am simply too sick to manage any kind of ongoing business.

Demimondebook.com

I’m so grateful to everyone who has helped so far!

Campaign header photo by Chayna Girling.

 

Second Annual Longest Night collaboration with Sadie Lune!

Last night I renewed my collaboration with Eternal Muse Sadie Lune for the Winter Solstice.

For the second year in a row, we met on zoom to make art and set intentions, hold hope and hold each other in our hearts.

Drawing of Sadie Lune, a tall and beautiful white femme. She is veiled and surrounded by candles, wearing lace and corset.

Again Sadie absolutely stunned and amazed with her makeup and styling.

Drawing of Sadie Lune, a tall and beautiful white femme. She sits and smokes, wearing lace, corset and boots.

Celebrating the Longest Night in the Court of Night Blooming Flowers is a theme in the Kushiel’s Dart books.

When I was working at Wicked Grounds in 2009 I was introduced to the Kushiel’s Legacy series by Jacqueline Carey. Everyone at work was a fan! Prominent in the extremely kinky and queer series are the Servants of Naamah, a church and religion of sex worker priests and priestesses. It was the perfect fantasy series for the kinky queers and sex workers of Wicked Grounds!

I hope Sadie and I can convene and do this beautiful ritual again.

Previous collabs with Sadie Lune:

The first Longest Night

The Lamp of Spring

My latest IRL portrait of Sadie, on a very cold Fall day.

Vampire Baby Jesus

Sadie in Thistle and Spire

Book release party for “As You Wish, my Lady” – vanilla

Book release party for “As You Wish, my Lady” – NSFW

Sadie’s piece in the Coven show at Schwules Museum

Sadie’s pregnancy photo shoot, documented

Vampire Lesbians of Neukoelln – NFSW

Diptych portrait of Sadie Lune and Jo Pollux

You can learn about Sadie’s work on her (NSFW) website. And here’s her Insta, and her twitter . My flickr gallery of drawings and paintings of Sadie is here!

I am so grateful to my Patreon Patrons, whose monthly financial support makes it possible for me to continue making art as a homebound disabled person.

With your support, I can work from home or safely outside and keep telling the stories of Berlin.