Nude Modeling
About four years ago I was contacted by an artist's agent in Santa Monica. He had seen my website where I used to have a large collection of nude photography modeling I had done. The agent told me that the artist, Don Bachardy, was interested in hiring me as a model for his painting. He dropped the artist's name like it was someone I should have heard of -- but I hadn't. I Googled him and found that he was a well known, established artist and one-time lover of Christopher Isherwood. He has painted portraits of such people as Mr Isherwood, of course, as well as Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Williams, W. H. Auden, E. M. Forester, and Igor Stravinsky. This is a sample of his style. And also a sample of the type of work he did with me. Although this is NOT me. He didn't let me have any copies of his work and this was what I could find on the Internet to give you a feel for his work. I agreed to pose for him. I was flown to LA, put up in a Four...