Author Archives: Suzanne Forbes

About Suzanne Forbes

Suzanne Forbes is a traditionally trained figurative artist who makes documentary art of queer culture and Berlin life. She also works in mixed media. She is a former New Yorker who immigrated to Berlin with her third husband and their two cats. Her work is crowdfunded by the support of her Patrons on Patreon; you could help! In previous lives Suzanne was a graffiti artist in downtown NY, a courtroom artist for CBS and CNN, a penciller for DC Comics on Star Trek, and a live-drawing chronicler of Bay Area alternative culture.

Rubyyy Jones as Freyja, with cats.

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Color drawing of Rubyyy Jones as Freyja by Suzanne Forbes Fen 21 2022 with staff and catsLove and strength and nonbinary goddesses.

We need them so much.

I finally caught some sessions of Life Drawing Rubyyy Jones this winter, including January’s “Historic Queer Artists” and February’s “Freyja” session. You know once I heard there would be cats modelling, well!

Rubyyy and their partner Prinx Lydia are creators of a whole Patreon community for life drawing, and more, including movement classes and act creation instruction.

Rubyyy’s Insta, personal Insta, linktree.Color drawing of Rubyyy Jones as Freyja by Suzanne Forbes Feb 21 2022 with staff 1“Freyja” is the third Rubyyy and Prinx session I made it to this winter.

It was before WW3 finally broke the surface, when I was most concerned about Omicron BA2, what’s happening in Kabul, ongoing suffering in Syria, and the famine in the Horn of Africa. A month ago seems like a dream now, after the thousand-year February of the tank advances.

I’m a goddam wreck. I got nothin. I know art helps me, so I’m sharing art, and I hope like heck it helps you. I love you.

I am so grateful to my Patreon Patrons, whose monthly financial support makes it possible for me to continue making art as a vaccinated but Covid-vulnerable disabled person.