February 24,  2003

       So the first meeting of the "Paint 'n Paddle" unofficial club was a huge success!  We lost one attendee to the weather and another to a damaged knee, but still had a comfortable showing of 7 people.  Four of whom were very happy to get quite naked - thank you very much :-)

      And one of 'em was a guy!

      Totally unexpected, but a great treat, was one model's husband's offer of posing as well.  i managed to get a few sketches of them that i was moderately happy with, but given that the whole "live person" experience was new to me, it took awhile to get the right flow going.  Once i did i started to understand how great it can be to have real people, instead of working from photos.  The only real problem i had with it is that i'm still in the learning therefore slow stage, and a pose can only be held for so long!

      The scanner isn't big enough to get the whole pic, so had to "splice" it together, but this is one of the quick sketches (not a lot of detail in it.)

      i was able to find the paint sticks as well, and as it turned out they were perfect.  Especially since the "label" on the one side, with the addition of an apostrophe and "s" added by hand to the end, spelled "sico's".  Perfect.  The pro art-eest buddy did the decorating - she's especially good at just about anything that involves a writing/drawing implement!

      So there we were, 4 "artists" (one is a pro and makes a living at it) sketching away, with 3 nekkid people posing this way and that.  i served a cheese and cracker tray, and some trail mix type munchies, plus had picked up a bottle of white wine.  Himself unfortunately had to work, but part way through the day i called up to Him; "sweetie... we have naked people in the living room!"  He hollered back; "do any of them know accounting?"  Poor man missed all the fun.  Well the fun at that point; He made up for it later.

      Then we lost one of the "artists" to the  model crew.  Next thing i know we have four nekkid people in the room.  We started closing curtains.  

      i discovered i purchased paper that was definitely too nice for quick sketching.  A dream to work on though.  And i even tried charcoal instead of regular HB pencils, although i was assured by the artist for a living buddy that it was very socially acceptable to use regular old pencils as well.  Bottom line - what ever makes you comfortable is cool.    

     6:00 p.m. arrived too fast.  i think next session we'll be moving the time up a bit - maybe 1 or 2 in the afternoon instead.  But a little bit of wine, and lots of laughter made 3 hours pass really quickly!  

      4 of the people stayed for dinner.  Himself was at His usual best, (yes He finally came downstairs to linger with the nakedness) presenting us with roasted chicken, beans and rice, and baked leeks with prociutto and cheese.  Yum.  In the meantime, the pro art person did a body paint on one of the attendees - over her pierced right breast she painted the head of a bull, complete with horns, and the nipple was the bull's nose, complete with ring.  It was perfect! 

       It's something about this house.  People just get naked.  And then the next thing we know, they are tied up to the staircase posts.  For dessert we had the lovely bull painted person strung up, with kitchen twine running through her nipple piercings to the hooks in the beams... blindfolded, legs bound - and mini flogger type things being liberally applied.  i cringed at the site of the nipples being pulled - all i could think was if one of those rings decides to rip .... heh - okay so i'm a paranoid person.  It was tres cool to watch however!  i admit to a ton of envy - being tied and bound and objectified is a huge turn on  for me.  And with the time constraints and sheer exhaustion Himself and i are enduring these days, time for that is pretty non-existent.  i think we need to address that!  But He was able to have a bit of fun with a few of the items from the toy bag, and ran a rather large machete type thing over her body.  He had a very satisfied grin on His face.  

      So, that was it - and absolutely a do-able thing for the future.  i'm thinking of maybe in April hosting another one - not so far away, but still time to recover from the one we just had.  And who knows?  Maybe i'll even get better and faster at the sketching!     

     “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
--Salvador Dali      

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