Category Archives: Art

Artwork and various creative projects and obsessions from Berlin artist Suzanne Forbes.

My art book crowdfund is live til Oct. 14! Please help my last art project happen.

Demimonde The Live Drawing of Suzanne Forbes art book crowdfund campaignMy art career has come to an end. But I have one last big project!

This is your only chance to fund and purchase a book of my art!

For twenty years, I’ve used skills developed as a tv courtroom artist to live-draw LGBTQ+ and kink community. Now at the end of my working life, I want to preserve and share these portraits of cherished folx, many marginalized and often erased.

San Francisco Fetish Ball chapter from Demimonde: the live drawing of Suzanne ForbesYour 8.5″x 11″ (like A4), 200+ page hardcover copy of “Demimonde” includes color and b&w drawings of SF and Berlin kinksters, drag artists, and lots of trans beloveds!

Please help me make this happen.

It’s the biggest, deepest dream of my life, and it’s now or never.

Demimonde The Live Drawing of Suzanne Forbes art book crowdfund campaignHere’s how to help support and buy your copy of Demimonde: The Live Drawing of Suzanne Forbes!

Go to the link, choose “free support”, the option of having the E-book emailed, or choose having the physical book shipped to you.  Most payment forms are accepted.

This is the only way to buy the book.

It won’t be for sale on Amazon, at bookstores, or online after the crowdfund ends October 14. I am simply too sick to manage any kind of ongoing business.

Demimondebook.com

I’m so grateful to everyone who has helped so far!

Campaign header photo by Chayna Girling.

 

The blessing of doing the work I love for over forty years.

I am delving in my art archives for the memorial book of my life’s work as a portraitist. Just now I found something uncanny.

Left, @stefanpeterharshman drawn in a Chelsea laundromat, NYC 1984. Right, @simplicityagent Ramon Yvarra painted in San Francisco in 2014. Two men I love dearly. Amazing, creative men who have done fantastic things in their cities for decades. I had no idea they were in the same pose til now!

I’m at peace with having a shorter lifetime, because I have been exactly who I am my entire life, and known and loved so many fantastic people, and made art of them.

As I wind down my life’s work and work on creating a book of my art, you can follow me on substack (free of course) for updates about the book, art bequests and more.

I am incredibly grateful to my Patreon Patronswhose monthly financial support in this final year makes it possible for me to document my art archives.