Red Light District
'Next'
12x16 inches
Waiting to see what the next man would be like
'Contemplating going out'
12x16 inches
Thinking about returning to the pavement again
'Sleeping it off'
16x12 inches
The police, the johns, the pimp, drink, she was knackered
'Long Night at the Docks'
16x12 inches
'Working Late 3'
8x24 inches
Alone on the street in the big World
(Close up below)
'Heaven'
8x20 inches
She is appearing to offer heaven, what she is really doing is something quite else
'Working Late 2'
The eyes of the world she lives in are upon her
'Docks'
Business was slow enough without the competition
'Waiting'
If he didn't show up soon she knew she'd have to go back on the cold wet pavement to make ends meet
'Alone in the alley'
A dangerous place to wait
'Alley Girls'
Passing time
'Having a break'
'Which Side?'
The only interest to the girls was which side the ship would dock
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The oils below are no longer available
'Bar Girl'
'When she was in this frame of mind not even her pimp would talk to her'
She deliberately chose the higher stool to sit on to get drunk
NFS (not for sale)
The oils below I have painted over, so they are here for posterity sake
'Bar Girl 2'
I got the detail behind the bar better in this one, but painted over it when I needed a canvas for something else
'Saviour'
The idea for this one was the 'tart with a heart' story, she is selling herself to keep the tramp fed and because he is stuck in his ways she will keep looking after him as an excuse to keep whoring
'The Alley'
She is seeking refuge in the alley while she thinks things over
'Working Late'
The lone whore out in a dangerous murky world, having to wait somewhere the police don't find her but her customers do. So she chooses a spot near the docks
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