Life drawing with strippers is the best idea!
This brilliant idea was conceived by UK group East London Strippers’ Collective. Creative sex workers in Berlin decided to do it too!
Maxine was the beautiful, athletic young model. Strippers are extremely strong and graceful, so they can take and hold wild poses!
Above and below, actual one-minute poses!
This session was held at Angels Tabledance, a cozy and comfortable club just over the Prenzlauerberg border.
I saw fellow Berlin artists like Alexandra Ru (@barsketcher) and Sam (@midnightillustration).
I decided to experiment and brought my new water-filled brush pens, which was really fun.
The washes of cadmium yellow are from a Dr. Martin’s ink bottle from the studio of late comics trailblazer Marie Severin.
Colleen Doran sent it to me for supporting her on Patreon!
Here’s Maxine giving a lap dance to Chloe, another member of the collective!
This drawing and the one below were drawn from memory, not poses, using my “mental snapshot” technique developed in my years as a courtroom artist.
Life drawing event producer @chiquilovelovelove did a great job and I am most grateful for a lovely event!
Check the Berlin Strippers Collective website for lots of upcoming Life Drawing sessions at several locations.
At the end of the night a lucky artist got a personal lap dance 🙂
Such a joy to live in a city with so many talented artists, where both life drawing and sex work are valued!
As usual these drawings are licensed Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) for all to share and enjoy! Feel free to print for your home.
In addition, I release the copyright on each drawing to the performer shown and they may use the drawings for their own profit and pleeeasssure in any way they choose.
I don’t do life drawing often, because I did so much in art school.
She is also a professional life model, who worked for seven years at the top New York art schools, including the Art Student’s League and the School of Visual Arts, two of the places where I went to school!
So when I heard she was the model for the second-to-last ever session of my beloved 
The session was held as a collab between Sketchy’s and Drink and Draw, on Drink and Draw Berlin’s 
The boat is docked on the river Spree, and is set up as a permanent life drawing space, with model platforms, hanging drapery, props, easels, and a variety of seating including very comfy!
And there is a bar where one can get an apfelschorle, and it is just so lovely.
Towards the end of the session Liliana did a reverse strip with some marvelous undergarments, including a lovely pair of ouvert pants.
I love to draw models in stockings and lingerie, so I enjoyed this greatly!
Underthings are some of my favorite things! Liliana is so elegant and graceful it was like watching a master class in dressing for the boudoir.
