Greetings,

We are already a third of the way into the year of 2022. I expect the kids out there don’t get the same Scifi feel about hearing that date as those of us with more time eperiance.

I haven’t had a shoot since last week’s issue and I only have one shoot on Saturday before the next issue. This will be a new lady I haven’t worked with before and I’m looking forward to it. But I have shoots the 15th-17th so there is a flurry of them mid month. One new lady and two I have loved working with in the past. Then just one more before the end of the month.

And a lot of class activity at the end of the month with a big natural light shoot at the location I talked about last week and Elley as the model. Then we head to Bonita in May for the summer, with trips down to the studio as needed. And, I expect, more shoots up there in the cool pines.

As you know, I was promoting subscriptions on Patreon to see just how many might be willing to pay more for BTS videos and images that would be released there before anywhere else. It was fun but the numbers never made it up to being worth the effort. Sorting through images and deciding what I would show you and what they got to see. And then posting each day. And frankly, Patreon was just taking way to much off the top. So, if you were a patron of mine, thank you. If you want to see what was going on and see some beautiful work that has yet to grace these pages here, you can still sign up and spend the next three weeks going over the last 3 months of Patreon postings and watch all of the videos without worry that you would be charged again. I’ve turned off recurring billing and the account is closing in May. So, if you are so inclined, try www.patreon.com/dkartistics and for $12 you get it all.

Yesterday was the last day to sign up for the April 30th class at the sale price of $300. If you are a subscriber here you can still get that price with the coupon code ‘iknowdave’. Sign up here.

I’m about to spend more time adding to my online training site. I’ve learned new techniques so it’s time to spread them around on the site. And I’m going to be working with Elley to create at least one art book of her and possibly more since we have more than enough material. And I will continue with the art books with some specific topics, like B&W and Steampunk. I’ve always wanted to do one called smoke and mirrors where it is filled with the flame images with the lady in the mist of the smoke and then the best reflection images of the past.

And I’ve been digging back to 2016 and 2017 to some shoots that didn’t get nearly enough editing attention. I’m going to start small series of 4-6 images that complement each other and make them sets. Some sets will be available in prints. And I may experiment with some images that span multiple pictures so you can hang them up exactly right and have a very large art piece for above a bed or a fine art living room piece.

Enjoy this week’s art. I’ll vary a bit from the featured model to give you some interesting art that has been previously released only on Patreon. Now that it is going away, you’ll see more new work. And I may have some issues that feature a specific look opposed to a certain model. Like all body scapes for example.

Until next week. Stay crispy, happy, and healthy. Please!

Dave

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