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I guess it was no accident nor surprise to Mr. Tuddle the owner of the local art store, that when he asked me to pick out one of the new Walter Foster art-instruction publications for my tenth birthday, that I immediately chose one written by renowned pin-up artist Fritz Willis. As it turned out, Willis along with Playboy’s Vargas where to be the last of their breed. It was not until the arrival of Japan’s Sorayama, as seen in Penthouse, that it has made a come back again. Only this time around, it is finally being recognized as fine art. Since my early exposure to Mr. Willis’ work I have been inspired by a variety of artists, particularly pin-up artist supreme George Petty. Actually, though our styles are completely different in both medium and execution, it’s in the mood of the Petty Girl that most of the Pin-Up Noir poses are done. I’ve tried to give my girls a look of “I’m in control” sophistication combined with a leggy yet muscular body of the twenty first century, while still evoking the glamour posturing that was the norm in that genre in the late forties and fifties.
TommyG
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