Getting Ready for the Gathering

So Spring is here, and I have been making costumes to wear when I get to Tennessee.  Here are some photos of my outfits - I'll post photos of what I was up to while I was there over the next couple of weeks,

Felix

My outfit for the Kimono Party

And for Beltane Day.  I never got to wear this outfit because of the record rainstorms on Beltane day, but will hopefully wear it to Burning Man.  Check back soon for photos from the event!

Javier Returns for a photoshoot

   I recently introduced Felix to Arthur Russel's "Calling Out of Context" which is this really sexy album.  Which is now being played almost everyday.  Arthur Russel is this most amazing gay musician of the 70's and 80's.  He was most successful making dance music but never actually got any recognition for all of his unconventional music which now sounds very contemporary. 

   Javier,  the boy that we met at the beach a couple of weeks ago, has been modeling regularly. So Javier comes over to model and hears this song "Arm Around You" and immediately takes his clothes off and starts dancing all around the studio.  We couldn't even get the camera out in time but you can use your imagination.  Here are some of the pictures Felix took of Javier that day

Enjoy! -Jon Carlos

Javier Poses

Hello Friends,

This is Jon Carlos Felix's assistant. I am usually sitting in my office area with my brain directly connected to the web. Friday however was a beautiful spring day and Felix told me it was much too nice to be sitting around working. "Lets go to the beach!" he exclaims. (What an oppressive boss right?)

So we are off to Baker beach and let me tell you it really was a great day for it! As we walked down the beach looking for an ideal spot what did we find but a nude boy playing in the waves with his Labrador. "This is the spot" Felix says blushing. After we set out our blankets it wasn't even a minute before Felix was talking to the boy and giving him the repertoire. "I'm a fine artist...Your so cute..Let me draw you..etc"

Javier is a cute young student living here in the city. He aspires to be an lawyer but his true passion is being in the nude. I cannot tell you how Felix happens to find every exhibitionist within a mile of his perimeter but I assure you it's a constant you can put money on.

Today Javier came in to model and I thought it was appropriate to share this little story and some photos.

Getting Ready for Saint Bridget's

So the fairy's have a ball for Mardi Gras, the St. Bridget's Ball, which I arrived just in time to attend. Here are some photos of myself working on the costume.

The finished outfit above, and almost ready to go to the party. I decided the pants were too much, and will post some photos soon of what I actually wore.

Making the costume

Making the headdress.

Dazzle

My boyfriend has a good friend named Razzle whom I'm constantly running into at parties (sometimes by accident). At a recent party he happened to be naked, as one is at parties, and I found myself standing with him, feeling up his arm, and admiring various other attributes, having never before realized what a good looking guy he is! Naturally I asked him to come into the studio, and here is the result.

Four of Jade

My latest tarot card, the Four of Jade, with a few of the stock photos I took to make this painting.

I took several photos, perhaps about 10, using myself as a model - I just used a timer on my camera. I held the pillow in a variety of ways, knowing more or less what I as looking for, and then I selected my favorite pose to use for the drawing, in this case, the one in the center.

In this card, a young man sits on the parapet of a palace, with great jades upon his head and at his feet, and another held lovingly, or protectively in his arms. He is crowned with the turquoise diadem of kings and power, and his boots and belts are decorated with symbols of jewels and wealth. His gloves, however, are decorated with the cross-roads symbol, which represent dark paths and uncertain fates. At his feet is an open casket, in which are numerous cacao beans, which in the ancient Aztec world were used as currency.

This card represents possessions, holding tightly onto what one has, and jealousy of ones belongings. However, it also represents inheritance, gifts, and one's legacy; this card offers plenty, but warns against the seduction of the material.

Three of Staffs

The Three of Staffs, my latest tarot card, and the photo of myself I took as reference.

I am wearing a basket I bought in Laos, which is similar to the type used in ancient Mesoamerica. A young pochteca, or Aztec merchant, stands on the shores of a great lake, with great pyramids and a city in the distance. He is simply dressed for travel, and carries a back basket on his back, from which emerges a great fruit tree, the axis mundi, laden with fruit. The fruit tree held in the back basket is one of the symbols of Yacatecuhtli, the God Who Wanders, special patron of the pochteca, of those on journeys and on distant roads, and symbolizes the tree of shade he offers to the weary and the fruits of abundance he profers to the faithful. He holds a turquoise staff in his hand, crowned with the golden flower of fecundity, poetry and art, and two more stand beside him. In the distance three canoes laden with merchandise sail into the distance. The canoes are his, and carry his products to distant places. This card symbolizes effort, trade, enterprise, discovery, and fruitfulness visited from great effort. This is a card of success in commerce.

You can find this card on my website in the "Tarot" section, and in my ebay store.