New York City six years ago – a small group of 14 young restless gay artists joined forces. Frustrated that the drawing courses on offer only had nude models in academic poses they decide to take matters into their own hands. Thus the Queer Men's Erotic Art Workshop was born! In the following years the group expanded to almost one hundred gay artists and their collaboration proved to be quite fruitful. Together they produced around 12,000 drawings – now collected in Dirty Little Drawings.
3 Reasons To buy this book
It's artistic
It's innovative
Perhaps best of all, it's dirty!
Review
Dirty, dirty, dirty and hot! This incredible cross-section of gay erotic art is a must for any admirer of the genre. What started as a small push for a creative outlet by a group of gay men has grown into a vastly talented melting pot of various artistic styles. Over 100 members participate in the Queer Men’s Erotic Workshop and the end result is a collection of drawings that range from romantic nudes to incredibly scandalous images of cumshots and gangbangs. The variety of mediums lends itself to the array of lascivious fantasies it showcases and inspires. And the genuine talent is as much evident in the obscure, impressionistic pieces as it is in the vividly detailed renderings of the male anatomy.
I would love to sit in on one of their workshops just to watch the creative “juices” flow and see the process that went in to constructing this delicious volume that, while tidy, is anything but clean.
The book DIRTY LITTLE DRAWINGS is an artwork in itself. Measuring about 6 1/2" by 6 1/2" it not only contains some superb art but it also serves as a catalogue for a project from a unique event that began in December 2000. Harvey Redding hired an adventuresome model and posed for a group of fourteen artists, each of whom sketched and drew from the model's input 'to expand the boundaries of academic nude figure drawing,' - 'full out, rock hard, unapologetic, sexual posing: nothing held back, nothing sacred.' The result was a collection of gay erotic art that became an exhibition of art works identically sized and priced. The exhibition and sale was so successful that there have been subsequent shows creating a collectors' dream and a new New York art scene.
This book may be small in size, but the artworks are vigorous, erotically charged and visually stunning. They range from simple head portraits to S and M influenced scenes, sex acts, and coupling and solitary pleasures. The variety of art types ranges form the hastily sketched pencil or crayon outline to fastidiously detailed drawings. The quality of the works may vary in degree of craftsmanship, but this selection of richly colorful works has one thing in common: the works are full of sensual energy.
The book and the concept are the work of Harvey Redding, Robert W. Richards, and Rob Hugh Rosen, the three directors of the Queer Men's Erotic Art Workshop in New York. The book is produced with finesse by Bruno Gmunder Verlag Gmbh. This is a fine art collection that started out to be a reaction to academic art. It is a superb little book!
A Surprisingly Rich Treasure Trove
