Our experience getting painted for New York Bodypainting Day sparked an artistic impulse in our collective breast, so for our latest trip to Central Park we chose a secluded meadow and invited four of our favorite artists to accompany us and sketch us as we lay about in the (almost) altogether.
(Next time we might go all the way — full nudity is apparently legal in New York as long as it’s part of an artistic performance or exhibition, and being drawn or painted would seem to qualify. But this time only one of us was brave enough to go full monty in the grass.)
We had our favorite new books on hand (yet another member came bearing a copy of Dune!), along with miniature danishes and chocolate kuglof from Andre’s on the upper east side. The sun was high and merciless, the grass sere underfoot, the boulders craggy wonders — and yet we felt less like we were in an apocalyptic milieu worthy of a George Miller movie (we’re looking at you, Happy Feet 2!) than like, I don’t know, Brooke Shields in The Blue Lagoon, minus only the body of water. Which is to say, paradisiacal (if a bit hot).
A handful of people stumbled upon us as the afternoon wore on — several dog lovers giving their canine companions their daily exercise; a family of four who made no eye contact, just walked on through; two cute boys in college sweatshirts, ditto. And then there were the three oldish teens(?), who darted in with super-soakers in hand, sprayed us lustily, cackled, and ran away. We were torn between feeling incensed (and concerned for our not-precisely-waterproof cellphones, not to mention our printed-on-actual-paper books) and feeling refreshed by the brief cooling down. Still, next time, ask first, okay, boys…?
There was also this raccoon:
The art, meanwhile, was all quick sketchwork — but lovely sketchwork with exactly the free, lively, impromptu quality a gathering of nearly naked people in the woods calls for.
Next time: some extended poses. Who knows? Maybe we can even get easels and oils out there and make a proper Dejeuner Sur L’Herbe of it.
I love the way you are continually broadening your horizons – and the minds, I hope, of passers-by, whether armed with super-soakers or not. And I feel sure that being drawn or painted qualifies as being part of an artistic performance, so I look forward to some full nudity in the future – on purely artistic grounds, of course. From rainy London to sunny New York,
Douglas/Sweetsong
I reeeeeeaaly wish I could accompany you ladies.
The young lady in pic 12 ( fully clothed,sunglasses in neckline) is perhaps the loveliest
young lady in NYC…amazing smile…..just an observation, no funny stuff intended.
Thank you.
Yes, good looking girl, remarkably similar to Australia’s first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard!
The leader of the pack. 🙂
Girl with the penultimate photo.
May I ask her name.
She is beautiful.
I fell in love with her.
Sorry for my English
Thank you for the kind words. But we do not disclose our names, sorry.
But you could spend some very enjoyable nude, or nearly nude, time devising some appropriate, or better still, wildly inappropriate noms de plume (or should it be noms de clavier?!) for yourselves and each other. That way we could avoid the long-winded ways to describe the girls we want to mention.
I remember arriving at the motorcycle racetrack in Laconia, NH after a sweltering hot motorcycle ride, and having one of the ladies in a tent spray me in the face with water, and how absolutely fabulous it felt.
That sketch on the right of the very first picture (later, next to other four ones) is very good, it deserves being framed and hung on a wall, perhaps it may become the cover for the (sometime-in-the-future upcoming) OCTPFAS autobiography…
Thanks for posting this artistic collection on my birthday. It’s very thoughtful of you.
I love it very much…and wish to be a part of this naturism life with joy…..I love to way you are broadening your horizon……thanks for uploading….
It’s been well over a week’s worth of BEAUTIFUL (and hot) weather with no new postings. Did you all get busted by the cops or just go on a vacation like everyone else this time of year? If you went on vacation did anyone take pictures?
It has indeed been good weather, and we have met, we just haven’t gotten around to posting a new report. Yet. It’ll come. We promise.
Dune is an anagram of Nude. 🙂
how does one request to spray you with water? Do you mind if I squirt on you madam?
Admittedly, it may be a difficult request to word.
You ladies look lovely as usual, but how about some more pictures of the artwork?