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Studies and Studios

Art, mostly figure studies, showing the world of art students, models, and working artists. I tried to pick studies that showed the humor, sexiness, imagination, and sheer kookiness of the best art-models. They're not all realistic: the long dream A Valley Near Hope shows mad alien sculptors and cyborgs with airbrushes built into their fingertips...

A few pieces show my own studio or others'--or dreams set in art studios.

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BANANA MOON: by Wayan; 1998/3/4-12/26, dream-figure painting, acrylic on wood, 3x4'
My figure-painting class here in San Francisco has a diverse student body, but not THIS diverse...
CAUTION: NUDITY
BEET: Five Dreams One Night: by Wayan; 2013/10/30, Halloween dreams as minipoems
Parasites, Rambo, huge fetus-beets, an exhibitionist and a living statue advise me on my love life...
CAUTION: NUDITY
BOOKSTORE ILLUSION: by Wayan; erasable crayon of an illusion, 14x17", 1982/6/25
I was in the Stanford Bookstore and saw this strange visual pun across the room... or did I?
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
BOXES, or, THE THRILL OF DRAWING: by Wayan; 1999/10/20, nondream pencil drawing
In drawing class I was supposed to be studying perspective, but I went beyond the box...
THE CENDANCERS: by Wayan; 2011-16, a 32-figure sculpture project with 250+ pics
A wild troupe of sexy, surreal, centaurlike dancers mostly built from Barbie dolls...
CAUTION: EXPLICIT NUDITY, FUR, BARBIE
CENTAUR: PAULINA AT SUNSET: by Wayan; 1987/12/8, three dream-infused figure studies
Fear anorexia? Gain weight, yet stay slender--be a centaur, like model Paulina Porizkova...
CAUTION: NUDITY; BODY IMAGE/ANOREXIA ISSUES
CENTAUR BY SARTRE: by Wayan; 1989/3/28; an oracular dream
A sea-centaur explains why some dreams don't LIKE to surface to so-called consciousness...
CAUTION: WET T-SHIRT, EXISTENTIALISTS, HARPOONS
CIDER AND WINE: by Wayan; 1974/10/24, surreal undream Aspie reporting
Our writing class meets in this Victorian home. I turn off my filters and describe what I really see around me...
CIRC CERVINE: by Wayan; 2016/9/16, a dream on... how to catch difficult dreams?
At a polyspecies circus, I sketch three acrobat-dancers--one deerish, one human, one... a mannequin?
Fiendish to draw! I wake frustrated & sketchless. But my sketchwork in the dream helps me redraw it awake...
CAUTION: DEER NUDITY
ENVY'S BAND: by Wayan, 2016/1/10, a dream on ambition rebelling against niceness
I meet Envy, that pushy, ambitious rock singer from the Scott Pilgrim books.
She's kind of sabotaging herself--but then don't I go too far the other way?
FAIRY URGES A WORKTABLE: by Wayan; 2009/7/15, an advice-dream wiser than it seemed
I find a long, narrow table. I have a table, but a fairy friend
perches on this one and urges "Take it home! You'll do better art!"
FELINE WOMAN--AN ANATOMICAL PORTRAIT: by Wayan; 1996? pencil study of recurring dream figure.
A Leonardo style skeletal study of a cat person that grew into more of a character study. I just like her...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
FIGURE DRAWING: ALL MUST BE PRECISE: by Wayan; crayon, 1995/2/6, sketch of studio classmate
An elegant, sexy classmate of mine, a fastidious feline island in our sea of grubby manic sketchers...
FIGURE DRAWING: AND AT ALL TIMES BE SERIOUS: by Wayan; 1995/3/6?, figure study.
She tried to find a pose so melodramatically goofy the sketchers couldn't take her seriously... but no.
CAUTION: ART-SCHOOL NUDITY
FIGURE DRAWING: BLONDE IN RED HAT: by Wayan; crayon sketch from photo, 1995/5/18
Girl in a red cap, half-asleep in bed, looking either sexy or she has the flu, like I did...
CAUTION: NUDITY
FIGURE DRAWING: BLONDE REACHES UP: by Wayan; 1995/5/15. Crayon figure study.
From an ad. I recommend drawing photos as well as live models; some poses, models can't hold!
CAUTION: NUDITY
FIGURE IN BLUE TANKTOP LOOKS IN MIRROR: by Wayan; 1995/5/15
After a workout, she looks at herself in the mirror, and for once, she LIKES herself...
CAUTION: SHE LIKES HERSELF, AND WE CAN'T HAVE THAT!
FIGURE DRAWING: BROWN GIRL STEPS: by Wayan; 1995/2/27; studio sketch-portrait
A model clowning--an ephemeral emotional flash
CAUTION: ART-SCHOOL NUDITY
FIGURE DRAWING: CAT-MARE-GIRL: by Wayan; 1995/7/24; studio sketch, crayon.
Late in life-drawing class, Evangeline got tired and snuggled into a pillow-nest. She looked so feline...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
FIGURE DRAWING: DAPPLED: by Wayan; 2000/11/29, pastel digitally tweaked.
A pensive leonine woman resting on a tilted rock. A life drawing with certain imaginary spots.
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
FIGURE DRAWING: REDHEAD SITS IN DIAMOND: by Wayan, 1999/5/12, acrylic figure-study
A sophisticated composition for a sophisticated model. Or at least seasick...
CAUTION: NUDITY, NAUSEA...
FIGURE DRAWING: EAGER ARTIST: by Wayan; 1995/1/30, studio sketch.
Rather than draw the model, I often sketch my classmates in life-drawing. They get so intent!
FIGURE DRAWING: EYES SHUT IN SUN: by Wayan; 1995/5/17, crayon sketch from photo.
Just a startling moment when a woman with backlit hair turned incandescent...
FIGURE DRAWING: EVANGELINE'S FERNS: by Wayan, spring 1995, crayon figure-study
She arranged pillows and potted ferns and just told us to picture real rocks and the ferny cascade she wanted to lounge by...
CAUTION: NUDITY...
FIGURE DRAWING: NOW HOLD THAT POSE: by Wayan; 1989/11/14 digital sketch of model clowning.
Shasé liked absurd, impossible poses, and she held them heroically...
CAUTION: SILLY NUDITY
FIGURE DRAWING: NINA SCARES US WITH HER BICEPS: by Wayan; 1995/5/8, studio sketch
Just what it says.
CAUTION: CARTOON BUTT and GRRL BICEPS
FIGURE DRAWING: NINA IS A TV: by Wayan; 1995/5/8 studio drawing, crayon
Nina the model's weirdest pose yet, as a TV with rabbit-ear antennae...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
FIGURE DRAWING: PEEKABOO: by Wayan; 1989/1/2, crayon based on photo
Girl peers out from a satin robe hiding only her face. Look at me! Hide! I know those contradictory feelings.
CAUTION: NUDITY
FIGURE DRAWING: RAIN!: by Wayan; 1982/7/26, figure studies in pastel & watercolor
Playful girl steps out in just her translucent yellow raincoat, clear boots
& red umbrella as a shower ends & the sun comes out. Dreamlike, but not a dream!
CAUTION: NUDITY
FIGURE DRAWING: SSSSH!: by Wayan; 1995/4/17, studio life-drawing, crayon.
Evangeline stood before the mysterious portal and shushed us...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
FIGURE DRAWING: SILKY ON FUR: by Wayan; 1983/6/18, an undream crayon; half photo half memory
A model lying on fur in gold light. But she was pouting in that seventies way,
so I found myself drawing the kind face of a childhood friend instead...
CAUTION: NUDITY
FIGURE DRAWING: STARE DOWN THE SHOE: by Wayan; 1995/7/24, crayon studio sketch
A confrontation between the top predators on this planet: Evangeline and her boot...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
FIGURE DRAWING: STUDIO: by Wayan; 1999/5/12; acrylic figure sketch
In life drawing class, the model built a sort of green island/nest in the sea of grubby students...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
FIGURE DRAWING: UNDECIDED: by Wayan; 1995/7/24, pencil figure sketch
Evangeline between poses, hand to mouth, undecided, in an odd evanescent mood I tried to catch...
CAUTION: NUDITY
FIGURE DRAWING: WEREWOLF GIRL: by Wayan; fall 1989; studio sketch, pencil.
I found this misfiled in a box of art with just the year on it, so I can't credit the model. But she looked like this to me...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
FLOWERHEADED CAT: by Wayan; 2005/8/17, two bizarre, sexy, advisory dreamlets
My co-worker flashes a lot. Her boyfriend helps--flaps her skirt up to bare her pussy. What's their agenda?
In a dream-sculptor's studio, I pet her lily-headed cat, who purrs. I think "At least her pussy likes me..."
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, PUNS, PETTING
FOAM, FURS, DREAMS: by Wayan; 2012-16, a blog on sewing giant dream plushies; 43 dreams!
My dreams urge me to build furry dream creatures with joints,
muscles & bones, then to heal myself by mating with them...
CAUTION: FETISHISM, FURRY NUDITY & SEX
GALLERY GAWKERS: by Wayan; 2003-5; sketches of San Francisco characters
For two years, I sat at the desk in our co-op gallery, and
secretly sketched our bewildered, art-assaulted customers...
GEEK SHORTAGE: by Wayan; 1990/2/12. Epic primitive digital painting on body image
A mural on how I became a dancer--the day I lost my old
body-image, failed to recognize myself in the mirror...
LESBOY: by Wayan; 1996/5/20, a dream on one's identity and place.
My Aunt Squid advises me to join a lesbian artists' co-op. But I'm a man! Not for long, though...
CAUTION: NUDE SUNBATHING, GENDER BEWILDERMENT
LILIES, DREAMER, FOX: by Wayan; 1998/5/27, acrylic on 46" plywood disk, life study.
She didn't want to be there. She closed her eyes and went elsewhere. So I painted where she went...
CAUTION: NUDITY
LUCID GIRDERS: by Wayan; 1993/8/18, an illustrated dream about dreaming.
Stayed up late, painting foreshortening. Then I saw a scene in color, motion, 3D, and knew
I had to be dreaming: I was visualizing too clearly, THINKING too clearly, to be awake...
CAUTION: NUDITY
MASK: by Wayan; 1989/11/21, digital print of dream-me trapped in the day-world.
I'm a unicorn in a life-drawing class, feeling more naked than the model...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY
MEETING CARAVAGGIO: by Phyllis Davidson, 1978, a dream earned the hard way
While painting a tribute to my hero/mentor Caravaggio, I dream we meet. He talks of his art
as we walk a dark space full of living chiaroscuro scenes we can circle, see from all angles...
MESOPOTAMIAN RINGS: by Herman Hilprecht, Jan.-Mar. 1883; two problem-solving dreams
I dreamt of a better translation of Nebuchadnezzar's name, since universally accepted...
I dreamt a priest of old Nippur told me two agate pieces, long separated, formed a pair...
NATURE DEFIES CONTOUR: by Wayan; 1999/9/20. waking vision in ink & acrylic applied with a stick
It's not nice to outline things that don't want to have outlines...
NAVAHO HORSES: by Wayan; 1972/8/1; childhood drawing, feltpen & color pencil
A museum sketch of Navaho horses who got me hot--teaching
teenage me that my sexual orientation wasn't (only) human...
NET PROFITS: by Wayan; 1998/7/14, a dream of family values and Web credit.
At a family picnic, my sisters and I fish for scholarships and grants. They put down my art, my website...
NOUVELLE BARBIE BODS: by Patagia, 2012/12/22, a playful poem on a dream-diorama
I visited my friend Chris Wayan's workshop and found him building
a dance troupe of joyfully obscene centaurs out of Barbie dolls...
ODE TO NOT WRITING ODES: by Wayan; 2019/7/17; a nondream non-ode
In an Oakland literary salon (no, not an oxymoron) I'm supposed to
write an ode. But it's so hot, and I have surreal dreams to sketch...
PERFUMES: by Hervey de Saint-Denys, early 1860s? Experiments in scent-triggered dreams
I trained myself to associate one scent with the mountains, one with an art studio. On a random
night my servant applied both secretly, and I dreamt artist & model burst into a mountain scene...
PHOTOS LURE SOULS: by Wayan; 2016/3/12, dream of summoning spirits
I'm photographing lifesize furry statues. How explicit, how sexy? If I get shots they like,
souls will be lured to enter their bodies and bring them alive...
CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES
PINKIE CLEANS THE WINDOWS OF PERCEPTION:
by Wayan; 2017/2/5, an advisory dream fusing Aldous Huxley & My Little Pony.
My new housemate Pinkie is a party animal, but she's really nice. She climbs a high ladder to help wash my
Windows of Perception. Then our unicorn friend Rarity walks in. She warns me to pace this renovation project...
CAUTION: PONIES
PLANET-SCULPTING APE: by "AE" (George Russell); mid-1870s, a childhood characterological dream.
On a cloud in space I met an ape molding a model of Earth, glancing at the original far below. We were much alike...
RACK: by Wayan; 2006/4/4; a comic business-bondage dream
My friend Chris gets tied up at the office--that’s his job, looking martyred! But when the boss is away...
CAUTION: NUDITY
RADIANCE: by Anonymous #42, 1996?, a transcendent dream backed away from
In the recording studio, some background noise. Isolated and amplified, it's a chorus of
inhuman voices praising an unknown deity. The song becomes a mandala pulling me in...
REST TOO: by Wayan; 1999/5/5. Acrylic on 12" LP; a life-sketch with a lesson.
The mysterious glyphs above the model's head are dream-language, warning me to...
CAUTION: NUDITY
RUBY UNICORN: by Wayan; dreamed 2012/11/15; a sculptural dream.
THAT DAY: My bandmates want to record crowd-pleasing songs. I want to record our strangest ones...
THAT NIGHT: In a woman's art studio, I'm struck by a low, feline, muscular unicorn mare, carved
out of a giant ruby. I ask, and she says "Oh, that's not mine. I found it in the trash"...
RUNNING START: by Wayan; 1989, a figure study.
A rather feline runner poised for the starting gun...
SELF-CENSOR?: by Wayan; 2022/11/4, an art-dream about dreams themselves
I'm in an art class drawing a dream image--a dog-taur or wolf-taur girl.
But I hesitate to draw her flashing me as she did in the dream. Should
I risk offending half my class, or make her modest and innocuous?
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY
SELF-PORTRAIT AS A YOUNG COYOTE: by Wayan; 2000/1/23; portrait of recurring dream self.
I'm more a dream artist than a realist, but one day I set up a mirror and looked in it...
SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CONVOLUTED TONGUE:
by Wayan; 1999/9/1; pencil mirror-drawing.
Einstein's tongue got its own poster, why shouldn't mine?
After all, even the Ein Tongue can't do this...
SEX SOX: by Wayan, 1986/9/1, half a life drawing, half imaginary
A life drawing I added a guy to, turning a piece about loneliness sex and socks into a wish fulfillment...
CAUTION: SEX, SOX (BUT UNLIKE BILL CLINTON, NO SAX)
SHHHH!: by Wayan; 1981, daydream in ink.
A sudden image of a woman whose other lips not only talked, they wouldn't shut up. Worse yet, they...
CAUTION: NUDITY
SILKY'S WEDDING: by Wayan; 1988/1/6, a dreamtale.
Silky, my often-animal anima, leads me into a strange pagan church where we get married at last...
SO TIRED OF MY BONES: by Wayan; 1999/9/13. Ink painted on with cardboard wedges; acrylic wash.
In my drawing class it was antlers and bones and skulls, death death death till I was tired of MY bones...
A SPHINX IN CLAY: by Wayan; 2017/2/25, a dream urging me to face my heritage. Also sculpt!
I'm a half-sphinx--human dad, sphinx mom--stuck in human form so far.
Will I ever learn to shift? I practice--sculpt my elegant feline future self...
CAUTION: SPHINX NUDITY
SQUEEZE LEGS FOR THAT LOVELY FEELING: by Wayan; 1988/11/14, nondream sex-fantasy in crayon
I couldn't find the motivation to do enough figure studies unless they were sexy, so...
CAUTION: SEX
STREAMLINING: by Wayan; 2004/11/10, a dream within a dream
I dream I'm an otter, and wake into a dream about sculpture--and learn my style's due to my species...
TRUST YOUR CANOE: by Wayan; 2012/8/16, two diagnostic dreamlets
I ride a magical self-guiding canoe, seeking the right beach and cove for me.
Even when the boat climbs hills so I can explore inland, I expect it to fail...
UNGHOSTS OF CHINA: by Wayan; 2009/9/2, a ghost-dream poem; Dreamverse #53
THAT DAY: art nonstop! Put myself down for obsessing. Empty man!
THAT NIGHT: I'm in rural China. Two women tell me their village declared them
dead, killed by demons. So are they ghosts, or just written off by idiots?
MORNING: wait--have I been calling me dead? Oh...
UNICORN BOY: by Wayan; drawing 1984, shaded 2001; dream-self portrait.
Me as a unicorn boy. Though I got a haircut since then, and most people can't see the horn...
CAUTION: NUDITY
UNICORN LEAP: by Wayan; 1987/10/27?, nondream ink sketch tinted with acrylic.
A unicorn in a dance performance--a solo vignette with a spectacular leap. And the dancer knows it...
UNICORN MENTALITY: by Wayan; dreamed 2008/7/16, a dream of unicorn art spilling over into reality
Dreamworkers gawk at sexy unicorn drawings all over my bed. One friend's part unicorn. The other? I wonder...
Ten years later, having learned I have a rare mutation making me not too human, the dream feels half-predictive...
CAUTION: UNIPORN?
A VALLEY NEAR HOPE: by Wayan; 1984/10/17-19, an epic dream.
I wander a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who love unicorns but
fear cyborgs, who love ants but fear unicorns! And while the Three Tribes squabble, cave-monsters
sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four aspects of my tetrahedral soul...
CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING
THE VEGETABLES OF SHADOW: by Wayan; 1999/10/4. Nondream surrealist art technique.
Make silhouettes of your beloved vegetables; then listen to the spaces between...
CAUTION: LEWD SQUASH
THE VERIZON EXPERIMENT: by Wayan; 2014/3/31, three linked dreamlets, the last self-flagging as predictive
1: A nature spirit's physics experiment proves that time forks. But how much? How dense is the multiverse?
2: I sculpt a model of this multiverse. A physicist likes it; the nature spirit likes it more. So she swipes it...
3: A 'friend' offers refugees my bedroom, crowding me and my work into a corner. I wake. The phone rings...
WAYAN'S STUDIO: Wayan, 1999/10/6, ink sketches of workspace
These sketches bare my work process: I multitask, but without planning, in a
flow state. I really do just follow my bliss. Works better for me than logic.
WHILE THE MEN WERE HUNTING by Wayan, 1981/11/3; a crayon-ink-Xerox art-prayer.
In cave times, while the men were all out hunting, it was
the women who learned to paint the cave walls to summon...
WOMAN WITH PLANS: by Wayan; May 1981, a crayon portrait
A figure study teaches me a lesson about the sexiness of brains. And about the unsexiness of no brains...
CAUTION: NUDITY; LIBELS ILLINOIS


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