My previous post was a review of Mistress T’s autobiography – There is More to the Story. I had a couple of additional notes that didn’t really fit properly into the main review, so I thought I’d slide them into this follow-up.
Firstly, I was amused to read Mistress T’s view on the look she was given when shooting for kink.com. I wrote about this in 2016, commenting that the excessive makeup they’d used really didn’t play well with her natural beauty. In her book, Mistress T was even more cutting than I was, describing her eyes after the application of dark eyeliner as ‘looking like two piss holes in the snow’. I think that’s harsh but fair. Clearly a failure of imagination on kink.com’s part, and I’m glad I wasn’t alone in that thought.
The other potential crossover that caught my eye was the story behind the painting she used for the cover of the book. It was created by Vancouver artist Drew Young, based on a private commission from Mistress T in 2012. In her book she describes making the connection with Drew Young via a post on a fetish blog that featured one of his images and asked the question “Is this a cuckolding scene?” Similarly Drew Young, in his blog post on the painting in 2012, described her discovery of him as via a ‘prominent Femdom blog’.
Now, I don’t want to blow my own trumped here, but in this post in June of 2012, I featured the exact Drew Young picture Mistress T describes in her book, and I talked about the potential cuckolding slant. Following that in July of 2012, Mistress T talks about commissioning her painting, and then takes delivery of it in August. Given that timing, the similarity of my post to the one she describes, and the fact that I’m not aware of any other femdom blog featuring that specific image at that time, I’m going to claim credit here for the connection. And therefore also lay claim to a (very) indirect mention for this blog in Mistress T’s excellent book.
I actually emailed Mistress T to ask if this blog was the one in question. She thought my post seemed familiar, and it was very possible, but after 7 years there was no way to be sure. I did enjoy the fact that the artist had absolutely no idea what cuckolding was, and the original painting I’d featured was simply a trio partying and doing blow.
This is the painting created by Drew Young for Mistress T, and then later used as the cover for her book.
Fun background, and THIS post describing the process is fascinating: http://hedrew.blogspot.com/2012/08/blog-post_14.html
Wow.
Artists are amazing!
Ferns
Yes, that post was a fascinating read. My father actually worked and taught at an art college, so through my childhood I saw a lot of the artistic process and the sausage gets made. But, as someone with all the artistic talent of a lump of wood, I still find it amazing to see how a piece of work comes together.
It was from that blog post that I got the quote of a ‘prominent femdom blog’, which tickled me. The funny thing is – assuming my post was actually the spark for the connection – I actually said his original artwork *wasn’t* cuckolding. I found it on a femdom tumblr, where that was the obvious context it’d be placed in, but it actually seemed a kind of depressing piece to me.
Thanks for stopping by Ferns!
-paltego