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By Roxanne Reid The stories of Africa’s trees are also tales of its people and animals, from Herman Charles Bosman’s withaak to Rudyard Kipling’s Limpopo fever tree. Think baobabs that are 6 000 years old or marula trees long believed to have elephants stumbling away drunk. In these 10 stories about trees in Africa let’s root out the fables, facts and fictions about some remarkable African trees.

​1. Baobab bar The Sunland baobab in Limpopo is one of the world’s widest; about 30 people could join hands around its trunk. Radio carbon dating suggests parts of it are more than 1700 years old. Old baobabs become hollow and in 1993 Doug and Heather van Heerden, who own the farm where it stands, cleared out the compost build-up in the hollow. They discovered Bushman artefacts and tools that Voortrekkers used to fix their ox wagons. They turned the hollow space into a pub complete with door, railway sleeper bar and draft beer. ‘We’ve had 60 people inside the pub at once,’ says Heather, ‘but a big branch broke so now it’s open plan.’ In April 2017 another part of the trunk collapsed, though the oldest wood is still standing. ‘We’re hoping the broken trunk will start to grow again.’ Where: Sunland Farm, Modjadjiskloof, Limpopo. Sadly, as of May 2019 it is no longer open to the public. Factfile: Baobabs flower on spring nights and bats pollinate them.

2. Circles in a forest If you visit the indigenous Knysna forests on South Africa’s Garden Route you’ll understand what inspired Dalene Matthee’s book Circles in a Forest. Ahead of his time, her character Saul Barnard worries about the forest’s survival and the exploitative greed of timber merchants. Matthee died in 2005 and her ashes were scattered at a monument near an 880-year-old Outeniqua yellowwood. The tree towers above the canopy and Saul would be pleased to know it is now protected as a Champion Tree, which may not be damaged in any way. Walk one of the ‘Circles in a Forest’ trails nearby to immerse yourself in the forest atmosphere. Where: Krisjan se Nek picnic site, Goudveld Forest, Knysna. Factfile: Outeniqua yellowwood is South Africa’s tallest species, reaching up to 60m. In the past, the trees were used for ship’s masts. 3. Wonder tree The Wonderboom is a 1000-year-old giant wild fig. Over time its branches drooped to the ground and took root to form a circle of 13 daughter trunks – something not typical of the species. Voortrekkers rested under it in the 1830s. In her 1882 book In the Land of Misfortune Lady Florence Dixie noted that more than 22 ox-wagons and hundreds of people could shelter under it. The mother tree suffered some damage in the early 1900s when people dug holes looking for the Kruger millions. Today its crown is the largest of any South African tree – about half the length of a rugby field. It has been declared a Champion Tree in a Department of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries project that protects notable trees. Where: Wonderboom Nature Reserve, Pretoria. Factfile: Local legend claims it’s so huge because a tribal chief is buried under it. The summer fruits turn yellowish-pink when ripe. 4. Safe house poplar A skinny Lombardy poplar outside the safe house belonging to Ruth Fischer Rice was a beacon of hope for people on the run during apartheid. Ruth’s father, activist Bram Fischer, led the legal team that defended Nelson Mandela and his co-defendants during the 1963/4 Rivonia Trial. Although the prosecution wanted the death penalty, the team secured a sentence of life in prison. This changed the course of history, allowing Mandela to become South Africa’s first democratically elected president in 1994. ‘The people who stayed with us were mainly young men and a few young women referred to us by people we knew,’ Ruth remembers. ‘Some stayed for several months. There was surveillance but we were never raided. A storm-water drain ran from our street to the neighbouring [Johannesburg] Country Club, through which our son could lead anyone who needed to escape.’  ​Where: Corner of Lothbury and Fawley avenues, Auckland Park, Johannesburg. Factfile: The poplar tree is a fast-growing alien that sends out suckers – even from the stump after it is cut down.

5. Spring glory Zimbabwe’s musasa trees (also known as igonde, msasa and mutsatsa) drop their leaves in winter. Then, for just three weeks each September, the new leaves create a blaze of colour before they turn green for summer. ‘They are a variety of tones from palest blush to burnt orange and burgundy, with gold and reds in between,’ says artist Lin Barrie, who completed a series of paintings inspired by this spring colour. ‘Musasas were part of my early bush experiences, with branches to climb on, colour to marvel at and carpets of flowers and mushrooms beneath. My father was a keen walker and birder and as a child I often went with him on excursions to the musasas. They were the backdrop for birds like spotted creepers, owls and pennant-winged nightjars.’ Lin’s oils and acrylics of natural scenes are in collections around the world. Where: Mukuvisi Woodlands in Harare, Zimbabwe, in September. You can see permanent displays of Lin Barrie’s art at her studio in Borrowdale Brooke Estate, Harare, or at the Cape Gallery in Church Street, Cape Town. Factfile: The orange caterpillars of the musasa moth appear in masses in March to feed on the trees. 6. The lion fig ‘Just north of Busanga Bush Camp in Zambia’s Kafue National Park lies an enormous sycamore fig tree on elevated ground,’ says safari guide Isaac Kalio. ‘The local tree-climbing Busanga lion pride likes to rest in the horizontal branches, so although it’s a beautiful picnic spot you first have to check who’s there! It produces four fruit crops a year that attract many animals. Tiny wasps breed inside the fruit and are in charge of pollination. The sycamore fig has been incorporated into Zambian teaching about HIV/AIDS because just as you can’t tell by looking at the outside of the fruit if it contains insects, you can’t tell by looking at someone’s face if they are HIV positive.’ Sad news is that this particular sycamore fig tree at Busanga fell in April 2019. Where: 500m north of Busanga Bush Camp, Kafue National Park, Zambia. Factfile: The genus is 60 million years old and the sycamore fig was mentioned in the bible.

7. Symbols and stamps The quiver tree is Namibia’s national tree and a symbol of the south, where it grows in rocky areas of desert and semi-desert. It got its name in the 17th century when Dutch Cape colony governor Simon van der Stel learnt that the San hollowed out its tube-like branches to make quivers to stash their poisoned arrows during the hunt. The trunks of dead quiver trees were also used as natural fridges to store water and meat because the fibrous tissue has a cooling effect as air passes through it. A member of the aloe family, it is protected in Namibia. It featured on Namibian postage stamps five times between 1961 and 2010 and appears on the Namibian 50c coin. Quiver trees were declared endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2010. Where: Quiver tree forest 14km northeast of Keetmanshoop, Namibia. Factfile: The quiver tree can live 100-200 years but only starts flowering at 20-30 years and has bright yellow flowers in winter. It is well adapted to hot, dry climates but coming under increasing threat from climate change.

‘Yes, there on the grass, in the shade of the withaak, the leopard and I lay down together. The leopard lay half curled up, like a dog, and whenever I tried to move away, he grunted. I am sure that in the whole history of the Groot Marico there have never been two stranger companions engaged in the thankless task of looking for strayed cattle.’ Herman Charles Bosman, In the Withaak’s Shade ​

8. Oom Schalk’s tree When Herman Charles Bosman’s character, Oom Schalk Lourens, lay down to rest in the shade of a withaak (white thorn) tree while supposedly looking for lost cattle, he imagined the tip of his boot was a hill called Abjaterskop. Before long a leopard appeared on the hill and started sniffing his feet. Its breath swept over his face in hot gasps as he lay paralysed with fear. Then the leopard turned and lay down next to him half curled up like a dog. Bosman’s deceptively simple satire brings alive the scenes and characters of the hardcore bushveld and mampoer country of the Groot Marico. Sadly, this story from Mafeking Road ends with a red splash on the leopard’s breast from a Mauser bullet. Where: North of Groot-Marico town, North West. Visit the Bosman literary festival each October at the Bosman Living Museum in Groot-Marico, a replica of the school where Bosman taught in the 1920s. Factfile: The long thorns are whitish or bluish in colour, giving rise to the dual names of withaak (Afrikaans for white thorn) and blue thorn/blouhaak. White spiky flowers appear from August to October.

9. The manhood tree The most noticeable thing about the sausage tree is its sausage-shaped fruit, which can grow as long as your arm and weigh up to 10kg. ‘In some parts of Africa, people use the fruits to enlarge their manhood,’ says safari guide Livingstone Sana. ‘With the instruction of a traditional healer, a boy climbs up the tree and chooses a young fruit. He cuts a round hole in it to mark his size then leaves the fruit to grow. When it gets to the right size he climbs the tree again and cuts the fruit down without touching it so that it doesn’t continue growing too big.’ Where: Just north of Little Makolololo Camp, Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. Factfile: The flowers, which open at night, have an unpleasant smell that attracts bats to pollinate them. 10. The tree of life The marula is called the tree of life for its many uses from food to medicine. ‘It’s a photographer’s best friend in summer when leopards climb it for shade,’ says Londolozi ranger Alistair Smith. ‘The growth structure provides comfortable platforms for them to rest. Other animals almost guaranteed to be near a summer-fruiting marula are elephants. Once they’ve eaten the fruit off the ground they often shake the tree so more crashes down.’ He adds, ‘Male and female parts are on different trees so Shangaan people believe a pregnant woman who wants a daughter should drink tea made from the bark of a female tree; for a son, she drinks tea made from the male tree.’ Where: Londolozi in the Sabi Sands Game Reserve, Mpumalanga. Factfile: The green African moon moth breeds on the tree. The fruit is made into beer and the ever-popular Amarula liqueur. That the fruit makes elephants drunk is a myth. Note: This article first appeared in British Airways’ High Life magazine with wonderful watercolour illustrations by Hazel Buchan. Like it? Pin this image!

You may also enjoy Magical treehouse in the Baviaanskloof Voices of Botswana: the tree man of Ngoma Copyright © Roxanne Reid - No words or photographs on this site may be used without permission from roxannereid.co.za

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Depuis quelques temps, j’ai envie de refaire des toiles, pour décorer mon intérieur. Comme nous avons refait plusieurs peintures de certaines pièces, j’ai le gout d’harmoniser mes toiles avec mes nouvelles couleurs.  J’avais envie également d’utiliser différents supports : toile de lin, de jute, et panneau de bois. For some time, I want to redo canvases to decorate my home. As we have redone several paint of some pieces, I have the taste to harmonize my paintings with my new colors. I also wanted to use different supports: linen, burlaps and wood panel.

J’ai commencé par habiller mon couloir, avec des carrés de toile de jute et de plâtre. J’aime beaucoup utiliser le plâtre avec du papier ou des matières naturelles comme la toile de jute ou la toile de lin. Ce mélange de texture apporte du relief et de la chaleur à nos créations.  I started by dressing my hallway with squares of burlaps and plaster. I really like using plaster with paper or natural materials like burlap or linen. This mix of texture brings some relief and warmth to our creations.

Et j’ai eu envie d’essayer les panneau de bois, vous savez ce genre de support :

Pour commencer je n’ai pas acheté des panneaux de bois de grande qualité, je ne savais pas si ça allait me plaire, et depuis que je me suis mise aux loisirs créatifs, au scrapbooking et mixed media en particulier, j’évite maintenant d’acheter tout ce qui me “plait” d’emblée sur un coup de cœur, je préfère tester et si j’aime ensuite investir. J’ai bien trop investi dans du matériel qui a fini dans un carton, amenant son lot de culpabilité devant tant de dépenses inutiles. Mes panneaux viennent donc d’un magasin au rabais ici un Dollarama (en Europe, un genre d’Action), 2 $ le panneau de bois, il ne faut pas s’attendre à une bonne qualité.  And I wanted to try the wood panel, you know this kind of support: First of all, I didn’t buy high quality wood panels, I didn’t know if I would like it and since I’ve been involved in creative hobbies, scrapbooking and in particular mixed-media, I’m now avoiding buying everything that I like from the start on a crush, I prefer to test it and if I like, to invest. I invested too much in material that ended up in a box, bringing hi lot of guilt in front of so many unnecessary expenses. My panels come from a discount store here the Dollaroma (in Europe it’s a kind of Action store), $2 the wood panel, so don’t expect a good quality.

  J’ai commencé par  appliquer quelques couches fines et croisées de Gesso (3)  et ensuite j’ai poncé, l’effet est saisissant, c’est lisse, lisse, lisse.  🙂 Et justement c’est si lisse, que le pinceau glisse. J’ai donc du “adapter” ma technique à ce nouveau support (j’ai encore quelques progrès à faire). J’ai fait deux “toiles” une essentiellement collage et acrylique, et une autre abstraite à l’acrylique.  I started by applying a few thin and cross layers of Gesso (3), then I sanded, the effect is striking, it’s smooth, really smooth. J And it’s so smooth that the brush slips, so I had to adapt my technique to this new medium (I still have some progress to make). I made two “canvases” one is more collage and acrylic and the other one abstract acrylic.

peinture, collage sur toile

details création collage panneau de bois

Toile que vous pouvez d’ailleurs retrouver dans ma boutique Etsy . Canvas that you can find in my Etsy shop.

Les panneaux de bois, (de bonne qualité) sont le support idéal pour mélanger différent médium comme le : plâtre, papier, modeling past, il est assez résistant pour soutenir toute forme de medium. Je vais pouvoir laisser libre court à ma créativité sur ce genre de support. Wood panels (of good quality) are the ideal support to mix different medium such as: plaster, paper, modeling paste… It’s more than enough resistant to support any form of medium. I’ll be able to give free rein to my creativity on this kind of support.

Et vous vous avez déjà testé les panneaux de bois ? vos impressions ? And did you already have tested the wood panels? What is your impressions? 

Le bonheur de créer sur différents support, panneau de bois, Bonjour, Hello, Depuis quelques temps, j'ai envie de refaire des toiles, pour décorer mon intérieur. Comme nous avons refait plusieurs peintures de certaines pièces, j'ai le gout d'harmoniser mes toiles avec mes nouvelles couleurs.

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I drew Lin-Manuel Miranda for a very special person in my life. It was my first time working with acrylics and doing a realism portrait in so long. I’m so so so proud of it, and I can’t wait to see the reaction of the recipient. :) // #linmanuelmiranda #acrylicpainting #painting #portrait #instaart #instaartist #hamilton #broadway #lyrics #history #tiedye #realism #beards #longhair

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My Constellation Prize (Solo SL)

^Just being in the condo was more than I had ever expected. In name, it was mine. I didn’t understand the why’s of it, but I knew that Daddy paid for the down payment, but it was my salary that was keeping this place. I still wasn’t sure about it, though. I knew we were going to have to make an appearance in Connecticut because of this.

Daddy claimed that all of it was fine. That he didn’t have to talk to his parents about it. But I knew how money worked. I knew that they were going to find out about him pulling three hundred grand from his account to pay for this place. The only person who would understand it was Emily. She was the only one that understood what it was like to want to tell everyone off. And in her own way, she had.

She still had that facade, though. She was still the perfect little Baines Girl. But I knew the pressure that came with that. I was the little Desmond Girl. I was supposed to be everything that my siblings weren’t. I was supposed to be the one that loved religion and loved her father. I was supposed to be the little girl my mother had always wanted. But I just couldn’t do it. I was starting to wonder how long it would take before Emily got to that point. Because, to me, it wasn’t a matter of if. It was a matter of when.

Daddy loved Emily. She was the only one I ever heard him on the phone with. I had yet to meet her, but that was more because of her schedule than Daddy hiding me away. She was the one person in his life that he would protect at all costs. It made me realize how much his family did mean to him. Those that he wanted to hold on to meant everything to him. They were the ones that he protected.

His family was growing. There was a baby in my stomach that was proving that fact. When we had first moved into the condo, I had to smile. Daddy had thought enough to give everyone their own room. Him and I had our shared space. The baby had a nursery. I had my own Little Space to be in. And then there was a spare office. He hadn’t told me what he was planning to do with it, but I decided to take the decision out of his hands.

He needed some place where he could just work. A place where he could be as creative as he wanted. He needed an art studio. And that was something I was willing to give. Mellie had been on board from the word go. While she wasn’t an artist, she appreciated the work an artist could do. It was how the space got filled with different types of ink, charcoal, pencils, and even acrylic paints. Mellie had somehow figured out that Daddy liked watercolors, so she wanted him to have every available source he could use for it.

The plan for the room was set. All of the supplies were sitting in my room for the time being. It had been hard to get time away from Daddy to do this, but he said Cherish needed him for some reason or another. So back to the publisher’s house he went. I had begged Mellie to give me Cass for the day so I could get this place worked on. I wanted it finished. I wanted him to enjoy this place as much as I enjoyed my space.

My ideas for the walls were simple in theory. Dark blues and deep greens. But there were a thousand and one techniques I could do to get this place the way I wanted. But the easiest way was with a dish towel and spray bottles. It was another thing Mellie had come through for me on. Calling her in a panic last night because I didn’t have the bottles was apparently the funniest thing in the entire world. All I had to do was combine the paint with water. It would give me the same effect on the walls as Daddy’s watercolors on a canvas.

I sprayed the blue on the walls first. I could create depth and different shades with how much I allowed to stay on the walls. I wanted it to be neat, though. This wasn’t the space for dripping watercolors. This was all about neatness with an artistic touch to it. It wasn’t something I was used to doing, but I’d give him anything if it made him smile.

After the blue had been laid in splotches across the walls, I followed right behind with the green. I wanted it to blend together. It needed to be somewhat fluid while still maintaining the idea that it was neat. It wasn’t something that I had seen done too much. I just needed to make sure that I didn’t add too much water. That tended to make everything a little more messier than I wanted.

Standing back away from the wall, I took in the room around me. I wanted this to be a place of inspiration for Daddy. I wanted him to be surrounded by those that he loved. It wasn’t going to be huge, but I liked the idea of it being more subtle. With a cup of paint in one hand, and a brush in the other, I set about adding Daddy’s family to the wall. First was Emily. Then Cassidy and Amelia.

I sat back for a few minutes before I let my full name settle on the wall. Daddy didn’t call me Caoilainn. In fact, no one called me that. Most people that knew me called me Cay. With the exception of Mellie. She liked to call me Lin. But that was in retaliation of me calling her Mellie. I knew Daddy was going to huff about why I didn’t just write Baby Love on the wall. But this was for the family. I’d put my mark as his little in a different spot. I wrote Myrick next to my name and made a face. The two of us were hardly ever formal. I never called him Myrick. He was always Daddy. But again, this wall wasn’t about titles. It was about family.

There was one name missing from the wall. The little boy that was growing inside of me. Daddy and I had talked at great lengths about what we were going to name him. But only one name fit for both of us. Just under Caoilainn and Myrick, my hand gently scripted out the name Watson. We were both sold on the name. His full name was going to be Watson Holmes Baines. There was only two people we could imagine naming him after. Watson for Amelia, and Holmes for Cassidy.

Grabbing a soft shade of pink and a new brush, I moved to the wall across to where Daddy’s easel would be. My hand was steady as I painted my nickname onto the wall. This room wasn’t just about his family. As much as I wanted him to be inspired by all of us, I was very aware that I, as his Baby Love, could be just as much inspiration.

The rest of the day was going to be easy. I just had to move things back into the space. I knew there was going to be things I couldn’t get in there. There was too much risk with as far along as I was. I wasn’t going to do anything that risked Watson. Daddy would throw a fit if I didn’t wait for him.

The only thing I was going to do was pull the drop cloths from the floor. They hadn’t been necessary when I was painting the names on the walls, but they were needed for the watercolor. This project had been my baby. I wanted Daddy to love it. I wanted him to understand that I saw him as more than just my Daddy. He was more than just Watson’s Daddy. He was still an individual. I knew that. He wasn’t defined by simply being my Daddy.

He was Myrick Noah Baines. He was the black sheep of the family full of lawyers. He put himself through college in New York studying art by getting scholarships. He had figured out a way to make it on his own without relying on his parents or their name. He loved his little sister Emily. She was the only Baines he trusted. She was the only one that knew about me. She was the only one he trusted with the fact that we were having a baby.

Daddy was protective of those he loved. And the ones he loved the most were on the wall. Sure, he cared for some more than others, but he did care about them. He wanted them happy, and he would do whatever he could to make them happy. They were our family. I just hoped he knew that I saw him as more than just my Daddy. I was hoping this room proved it.^

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This Russian Illustrator Turns Manga into Gorgeous Cinematic Moments

Manga and anime, though distinctly Japanese storytelling media, are highly adaptable to any individual artist's style, as can be seen in Pigo Lin's erotic works and Julie Watai's Manga-inspired photography. Ilya Kuvshinov, a Russian illustrator living in Tokyo, has been creating his own unique brand of manga-inspired illustrations over the last few years. While his style is undeniably manga, Kuvshinov imbues the comic book style with both a photographer's and a cinematographer's touch, creating everything from dreamlike lighting to the cinematic staging of scenes and characters.

Kuvshinov regularly posts his illustrations to Instagram, DeviantArt, and Tumblr, where he has attracted quite a following in the process. Recently, Kuvshinov parlayed this online success into Momentary: The Art of Ilya Kuvshinov, a book of select illustrations released by Tokyo-based book publisher PIE International (formerly PIE Books). The formatting is rather unique: two images are paired on each page, giving the book an added cinematic atmosphere. The works in the book range from Kuvshinov's dreamy manga street scenes to his sci-fi concept art and photographs showing work-in-progress illustrations.

Kuvshinov, who started drawing and painting at 11-years old, originally went to university for architecture in Moscow. Later, he returned to his childhood interests, taking up design and animation before eventually moving to Tokyo to be at the center of an animation and video game culture he so loves.

"I was fond of Japanese animation designs since I was a kid, but never thought about actually drawing in this style until one certain situation," Kuvshinov tells Creators. "When I was 13 years old, every weekend I rode a train to school and back home, so I used this time to sketch people on the train. One day I was sketching people on a train as usual, and at the end of the station a girl of my age was watching me draw all the way, and asked, 'Can you draw in anime style?'"

"I was like, 'No,'' he continues. "Her face suddenly become bored and she said, 'Oh, I see. Too bad.' and got out of the train. That made me think, why exactly can't I? So I just started doing it starting that day."

Kuvshinov says his first real job as a video game concept artist gave him some habits as far as artistic process. He usually starts with one idea or one word, then adds to it. He might add some shapes that he associates with a word; other times it's just a gesture, a fleeting moment, or an emotion he wishes to draw. Kuvshinov keeps building layers up until the scene more or less assembles into a clear vision.

When the vision and goal is strong, Kuvshinov says the production of the illustration can occasionally be mechanical. Much harder but more fun are the illustrations that change during the drawing process. However the illustrations develop, they have Kuvshinov's unique artistic touch and sense of imaginative atmosphere.

Before PIE International approached Kuvshinov with a book proposal last year, he was already thinking of putting out a collection of original illustrations. He says the book's editor, Kinefuchi-san, is really dedicated to his work. One of Kinefuchi-san's conditions for creating Momentary is that they finish the work before the end of 2016. Incredibly, they finished the book in just a few months.

The bookmaking process began with Kinefuchi-san showing Kuvshinov the rough layout of the book. Kinefuchi-san used original illustrations culled from Kuvshinov's various social networks. So most of the work was already there, as Kuvshinov says, though he did add some of his favorite illustrations and helped tinker with the layout for what became the final product.

"When I were creating the illustrations I wasn't really thinking of printing them," says Kuvshinov of creating images for social media, then collecting them into a physical object in book format. "Every illustration was created with a 'this is for the internet' concept in mind."

"For example, it's really important that illustration content be easy recognizable, even at small sizes, like when people see it on the screen of a phone," he adds. "But to tell you the truth, I was really amused when I first saw my illustrations printed on a book paper. Special inks were used, making RGB pictures look really good on paper. You can also see many more details in the printed versions, and the texture of the paper really adds to it."

Despite Momentary's recent release, Kuvshinov is already hard at work on other illustrations and projects. Currently, he is in the planning stages of creating a series of acrylic illustrations that he hopes to show in an exhibition, but isn't sure when this will happen. Asked if he plans to turn his cinematic illustrations into animated work, Kuvshinov would only say, "Something big is coming, so please look forward to it!"

Click here to see more of Ilya Kuvshinov's work.

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[NSFW] French Comic Book Artist Ouinesh Revives the Erotic Art of the Pinup

French comics artist Ouinesh, a.k.a., Vincent Roucher, never intended to become a vintage pinup illustrator. It is fair, however, to say that Ouinesh has played a role in resurrecting the lost artform via his popular Instagram account. His illustrations vary from the pornographic to the merely titillating, but are always artistically attractive. Like erotic illustrator Pigo Lin, Ouinesh's work celebrates women not just from the pinup era but from 20th century comic books as well. In one illustration, Wonder Woman is reimagined as a seductive pinup, and in other, Cat Woman looks as if she's about to attend a BDSM affair. To his own credit, Ouinesh has created a vast array of female characters in a number of styles and all manner of poses.

Pinceau

Ouinesh tells Creators that his is the usual story of a child who wanted to make comic books after reading comics. In the late 80s, he went to art school, then actually began making comic books in France. Many of these comics were created alongside his pal Stan as the part of the duo Stan & Vince, under which the two create storyboards for ads and movies.

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  "I started drawing because of my addiction to other artists, mostly American, and some French and Italian," says Ouinesh. "When I was a kid, Jack Kirby rocked my world. Then John Byrne's X-Men came, then Bernie Wrightson with both Swamp Thing and Frankenstein. Whoa! Coming from France was Gotlib and his hilarious comic book rubrique à brac. Then Moebius, and then, my big shock, Tanino Liberatore with RanXerox! That guy: he was God on Earth for me."

The pinup illustrations started in a rather roundabout way. Ouinesh would include little drawings in faxes, and later do the same in emails. For him, they were a bonus to his communications, and little slices of entertainment. Ouinesh soon noticed that people liked the pinups more than the other drawings, so he began making more of them.

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After years of doing this from time to time, the famous Swiss artist Zep asked Ouinesh to do an erotic graphic novel called Esmera. Although it is currently unavailable in English, he says it earned him the reputation of "the guy who draws naked women" but in a good way, he insists. Ouinesh currently works a side job for an erotic-themed pro-zine called La Bateau ( The Boat), and is now creating hundreds of drawings he hopes to soon collect into a book.

"Some of them go on my blog, some others on Instagram, and some are just for friends," says Ouinesh. "And some are too X-rated, not to be shown except to very special people."

Croby

"Technically, they're mostly drawn on paper, the old way," he adds. "Pencil first, then pigment markers, or occasionally deep black pencils. When they're in color, most of the time it's computer-colored. But still, some are done in real colored inks like acrylic inks."

Lately, Ouinesh has tried his hand at oil painting, but says it's "damned difficult." Mostly, he draws to put on paper whatever is currently manifesting in his mind. If people look at his artwork and get hot and horny without feeling uncomfortable, then he is successful.

"My egoist dream is to have women liking my drawings as [much as] most men do," Ouinesh says.

Inspired by a series of pictures by infamous British photographer Mike Dowson.

Click here to see more of Ouinesh's illustrations.

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