Prep for a Date

34" x 48" Displaymaker Print

© 1996 Dan Younger/ArtStuff

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If you asked me to list the ten most embarrassing pictures of me, this would be on the top of the list. It was made at Knott's Berry Farm in California. There was a wooden mannequin dressed as a "dance hall girl" and my father told me to sit down and have my picture made. "Hold her hand" he said. I was self-conscious enough as it was, and to be holding the hand of a, well, you know, was a bit too much. It sure shows in the picture.

The floating naked ladies are my description of the mental state that occurs when testosterone and situations combine to produce the secular version of religious ecstasy.

Technical Stuff:

The gold frame was a wooden 5" x 7" frame that I laid right on the scanner glass. The floating ladies were drawing models at the university that I taught at. They were photographed and their images scanned from 4" x 6" color prints. In Photoshop, the layer of floating ladies had a lower layer of white "aura" and a upper layer of transparent white glow, to add to their otherworldly quality.