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Artist Memo: People ask me why I choose to paint female images. Why nude figures? Have I ever thought about the social role of the female? Have I studied feminist issues? And why are 95 percent of nude images in major art museums and galleries female when only 5 percent of recognized artists in the art circle are women?

I don't really have all the answers to these questions. Over the past ten years, having spent thousands of hours drawing live female models, I have come to recognize and appreciate the different lines and forms of the female figure. The female form has become one of my main painting languages and sources of inspiration. I love it-I think the female form is the most elegant, exquisite, and mysterious image in the world. I am glad that it was a nude female model, rather than a monkey, posing in front of me the very first day I stepped into the drawing studio. Otherwise I might have thousands of monkey images in my drawing pads and paintings today.

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