Well, let me tell ya, I saw some pictures the other day, and they were somethin’ else. Erotic pencil drawings, they called ’em. Now, I ain’t no fancy art critic or nothin’, but I know what I like, and some of them pictures, well, they made me blush, I tell ya!
They had all sorts of pictures, you know? Some were just lines and shapes, kinda like when you squint your eyes real hard and look at the sun dancin’ on the water. Abstract, they say. But then there were others, oh my! People, you know, doin’ stuff. Intimate stuff. Stuff you don’t normally see, unless you’re married, and even then, maybe not!
- Some were black and white, just pencil on paper. Made ’em look kinda old-timey, like somethin’ you’d find in a dusty attic.
- Others were colorful, real bright and bold. Made you look twice, for sure.
This fella, Grant, they talked about him a lot. Seems he drew pictures for a long time, kept ’em hidden away, like secrets in a cookie jar. Now, they’re showin’ ’em off for everyone to see. Private stuff, they said, but now it ain’t so private no more. And these curators, fancy folks in fancy places, they’re the ones showin’ ’em off. Charleston, they said. Sounds like a place where rich folks go to drink tea and talk about things they don’t understand.
They had other artists too, not just this Grant fella. All kinds of folks, drawin’ all kinds of things. Sex, they said. Intimacy. Gender, whatever that means. And identity. Like who you are, I guess. But mostly, it was about, you know… the birds and the bees, but drawn out real pretty, or sometimes real… well, you know. Not pretty, but… interestin’.
Some of the drawings, they were real… how do you say it…sultry? Yeah, that’s it. Sultry. Like a hot summer day, makes you sweat just lookin’ at it. Odalisques, they called ’em. Fancy word for a pretty lady lyin’ around, I guess. And then there were those pop art things. Vixens, they said. Looked like somethin’ out of a comic book, but, you know, grown-up comics. And other famous artists too, names I can’t even pronounce. But their pictures, well, they spoke for themselves.
These drawings, they weren’t just about showin’ stuff. They were about feelings, too. You could see it in the lines, the way they were drawn. Sometimes soft and gentle, sometimes hard and rough. Like life, I guess. Expressive lines, they called it. And earthy colors. Made you feel like you were right there, in the picture with them. Seein’ things you probably shouldn’t be seein’, but you can’t look away. Men couplin’, they said. Didn’t hide nothin’, these pictures.
They had a whole bunch of ’em. Originals, they said. Not copies. Illustrations, too. Different styles, different ways of drawin’. But all about the same thing, you know? The human body, and what it can do. And what people do with each other.
Now, they talked about pencils too, believe it or not. Soft leads and hard leads, and how they make different marks. B pencils, they called ’em, for black. The softer the lead, the blacker the mark. HB, that’s in the middle. Good for writin’, they said. But for these pictures? I bet they used the soft ones, the ones that make the darkest lines. The ones that show everything, without hidin’ nothin’.
And you know what? There ain’t nothin’ wrong with it. Nothin’ shameful about showin’ the human body, they said. Satyrs, they called ’em, those half-man, half-goat things. And men bein’ manly. It’s all part of life, I guess. Even if it makes an old lady like me blush a little.
So, yeah, those erotic pencil drawings, they were somethin’ else. Made me think, made me feel, made me remember things I thought I’d forgotten. Art, they call it. Maybe it is, maybe it ain’t. But it sure is somethin’ to look at, that’s for sure.
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