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Full Moon Cabaret at Berlin Burlesque Week 2019!

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Coco Lectric at Full Moon Cabaret Berlin Burlesque Week June 2 2019 by Suzanne ForbesA show all about the vibrance of nature!

Here is beautiful Coco Lectric, as a lovely flower during the Full Moon Cabaret “Nature” show! So many incredible performers traveled from all over the world to perform at Berlin Burlesque Week, and I was thrilled to meet them and get a chance to draw them. 

Agatha Frisky at Full Moon Cabaret Berlin Burlesque Week June 13 2019 by Suzanne ForbesThis is Agatha Frisky, a gorgeous lady in a gorgeous outfit, as a Corpse Flower!!!

Her costume was exquisite, and she has an amazing shake!

Above, Miss Cherry on Fire, a classic bombshell!

I love her true vintage glamour. Here’s her Insta!

Crocodile Lightning by Suzanne Forbes July 16 2019Look at gorgeous Crocodile Lightning!

With smiles for miles and legs for leagues, she lit up the stage. Meeting her I was so touched by her warmth, and her Instagram is full of powerful, compassionate social justice messages. She recently performed at Hubba Hubba Revue in San Francisco, where I cut my burlesque live-drawing teeth from 2005 to 2014!

Below, producer and hostess with the most, Viva Lamore.

Because of recent changes in US law, I cannot create any drawings that show nudity, “implied nudity”, or breasts with pasties for my Patreon, which is how I have crowdfunded my free documentary art the last few years. I’ve created a new site for my documentary art about human sexuality and gender expression. I can’t link to it because of Patreon rules. Please don’t blame Patreon; blame SESTA-FOSTA. Maybe you could find the new site by googling!

There’s a post on my new site with new drawings from this Full Moon Cabaret too. It shows the breathtaking power and beauty of the performers at this show in all their glory. Skyclad, or in pasties.

I’ll continue to post on here too, sponsored and supported by my beloved, cherished Patrons, as right now that’s the main source of revenue for my art and I’ll always be interested in doing “work-safe” art as well as art with nudity such as life drawing. I’m working on a funding model for the new site.

Of course, you can always paypal me artist support money at suzanneforbes @ protonmail.com!

Viva Lamore at Full Moon Cabaret Berlin Burlesque Week May 28 2019 by Suzanne Forbes detail

New Portraits of friends!

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Portrait of Shakrah Yves at Ballhaus Berlin By Suzanne Forbes May 31 2019My friend Shakrah Yves, dressed in emerald velvet at the Jews!Jews!Jews! show of Berlin Burlesque Week.

I had to sneak this portrait of her as she chatted with a friendly gay boy from Oz, because she looked so luminous. we went for Thai food beforehand and she looked like a movie star, I was like oh la lala, just havin some iced tea with my friend the movie star.

This is done in pastels, gel pens and other mixed media on Strathmore Toned Gray paper.

I love this paper but it’s too big for my scanner so I have to photograph the drawings and with their complex, mixed pigment surfaces they are hard to photograph. I am gonna have get a bigger scanner sometime soon!

Lady with a baby May 9 2019 by Suzanne ForbesLady with a Baby

My friend S. with her little one, just a few weeks old. She has the most amazing kids. Seriously, the most amazing, beautiful, strong, full-of-identity from birth kids. I saw this one in the hospital and he was already right there. And the older kid- her glamour, character and self-possession are already legend among the Berlin demi-monde! “I saw her having lunch with Peaches one day, when she was just five years old”, someone whispered at a party. We are planning a portrait of mama and older child later this year.

This work, of making a record of the people I know, and telling the story of a moment in their lives – I cannot think of anything I am better suited to do, or any task more honorable.

I am so deeply grateful to my Patrons on Patreon, whose financial support makes it possible.