SEX PAINTING: masturbating girl with steel dildo

Masturbating Girl 9w*** 30 x 22 inches acrylic and charcoal on rives bfk
PLEASE NOTE: this is a preliminary IPHONE photo, filtered and sharpened and whatnot in photoshop, but STILL, ya know ! I will repost this after it is shot with the great lens and camera body. It will look better then.

Now this painting was a lighthearted undertaking. I mean I can only immerse my heart and soul in re-experiencing the death of Suzanne from that grinding, pernicious cancer for just so long before turning my heart and soul to the erotic and delicious vision of a beautiful girl masturbating with the justly famous nJoy Eleven (a steel dildo that is a thing of sculptural beauty in itself)!

DEATH PAINTING

Suzanne Dying 9wxx1 30 x 22 inches acrylic and charcoal on rives bfk

PLEASE NOTE: this is a preliminary IPHONE photo, filtered and sharpened and whatnot in photoshop, but STILL, ya know ! I will repost this after it is shot with the great lens and camera body. It will look better then.

The reference for this painting is also from December 20th, 2009, eleven days before Suzanne's death from metastatic hemangiopericytoma. I have come to call them death paintings, but I often think of them as KADDISH which is the Hebrew prayer for the dead.

For one thing I know: that nine-year journey from the diagnosis of the first brain tumor to her final surrender was a holy path I was blessed to be allowed to share, and at the moment of death God shook the universe and I howled.

DEATH PAINTING: my wife died a year ago today

Suzanne Dying 9w074 conté and acrylic on rag paper 19 1/2 x 18 inches

A year ago this morning my wife, Suzanne Mauer, died after a nine-year battle with metastatic hemangiopericytoma. Her doctors, Ronald Blum at Beth Israel and Robert Maki at Sloan Kettering, were wonderful doctors and loving men. Suzanne's death was long, lingering, agonizing, and included a vicious and very expensive legal battle to get treatment approved by her insurance carrier. She went, in a wheelchair, to Albany to talk to the lawmakers in the Capitol and, based on that trip and the incredible help of Mark Scherzer, there is now a New York State law that says that a person with a rare disease cannot be denied coverage based on a lack of "clinical studies".

She was tough, loving and complicated. Her computer screen saver said "LOVE RULES." These paintings are love letters. And I will continue making them until they stop demanding to be made. The hell with decorative painting.

DEATH PAINTING

Suzanne Dying (9w074) 18" x 18" conté and acrylic on paper

This painting and other related SEX AND DEATH artworks can be viewed in that gallery on my website.

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DEATH PAINTING

Suzanne Dying (9w048) 30" x 22" acrylic on paper

This painting and other related SEX AND DEATH artworks can be viewed in that gallery on my website.

JONATHAN HERBERT

DEATH PAINTING

Suzanne Dying (9w047) 30" x 22" acrylic on paper

This painting and other related SEX AND DEATH artworks can be viewed in that gallery on my website.

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DEATH PAINTING

Dead Suzanne (9w073) acrylic and charcoal on paper 72" x 52"

This painting and other related SEX AND DEATH artworks can be viewed in that gallery on my website.

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Naked Girl

SSS 9w15 24" x 18" brush and ink on paper

Other related NAKED GIRLS artworks can be viewed in that gallery on my website.

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Naked Girl

SSS 9w11 24" x 18" acrylic and charcoal on paper

Naked Girl

SSS 9d25 30" x 22" acrylic and charcoal on paper

Naked Girl

SSS 9w24 30" x 22" acrylic and charcoal on paper

Naked Girl

SSS 9w29 52" X 36" acrylic and charcoal on paper

Naked Girl

SSS 9W26 30" x 22" acrylic and charcoal on paper

Naked Girl

SL 9w5 18" x 24" acrylic and charcoal on paper

Naked Girl

SL 9w3 24" x 18" acrylic and charcoal on paper

Naked Girl

KB 8w492 30" x 22" acrylic and charcoal on paper

Naked Girl

RL 8w474 30" x 22" acrylic and charcoal on paper

Naked Girl

RL 8w477 30" x 22" acrylic and charcoal on paper

Naked Girl

KW 8w0481 30" x 22" acrylic and charcoal on paper

Naked Girl

RL 8w476 22" x 30" acrylic and charcoal on paper