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Study for Future Paintings
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| Title: | Study for Future Paintings |
| Artist: | 2 by Sweet Dreams Studio, 3 by U Wish Studios (likely the same artist) |
| Date(s): | 1999, 2000 |
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Study for Future Paintings is a set of five K/S artworks.
Two are by Sweet Dreams Studio and created in 1999. Three are by U Wish Studios and created in 2000.
They are all likely created by the same artist.
All five were printed in T'hy'la #21.
The Titles
- "The Slave Owner's Dream" (aka "Study for Future Painting #1") "Wearing the symbol of his clan as well as the blue beads of Cha'ta, designating purchase," by Sweet Dreams Studio, 1999
- "Captain Spock" (aka "Study for Future Painting #2") "Inspired by the story "Spindrift" by Judy," by Sweet Dreams Studio, 1999
- "Study for Future Painting #1" by U Wish Studio, 2000
- "Study for Future Painting #2" by U Wish Studio, 2000
- "Study for Future Painting #3" by U Wish Studio, 2000
"The Slave Owner's Dream" (aka "Study for Future Painting #1")
![from issue #21, by Sweet Dreams Studio, "The Slave Owner's Dream" p. 84a: "Sweet Dreams Studio has a young dreamy looking Spock with long hair. It's a B&W pencil, I assume. Spock is really too slim for my tastes, but otherwise looks good. And he almost looks like Spock. I dislike the heavy print in the upper right of the picture. I would have preferred the picture to be minimized a little and had the print at the bottom-completely off the picture. This is a study for future painting # 1. It would be interesting to be able to see the painting in person once it were done." [1]](/w/images/thumb/b/bd/Thyla21art1.jpg/180px-Thyla21art1.jpg)
from issue #21, by Sweet Dreams Studio, "The Slave Owner's Dream" p. 84a: "Sweet Dreams Studio has a young dreamy looking Spock with long hair. It's a B&W pencil, I assume. Spock is really too slim for my tastes, but otherwise looks good. And he almost looks like Spock. I dislike the heavy print in the upper right of the picture. I would have preferred the picture to be minimized a little and had the print at the bottom-completely off the picture. This is a study for future painting # 1. It would be interesting to be able to see the painting in person once it were done." [1]
![from issue #21, by Sweet Dreams Studio, "The Slave Owner's Dream" p. 84a: "Sweet Dreams Studio has a young dreamy looking Spock with long hair. It's a B&W pencil, I assume. Spock is really too slim for my tastes, but otherwise looks good. And he almost looks like Spock. I dislike the heavy print in the upper right of the picture. I would have preferred the picture to be minimized a little and had the print at the bottom-completely off the picture. This is a study for future painting # 1. It would be interesting to be able to see the painting in person once it were done." [1]](/wiki/File:Thyla21art1.jpg)
"Captain Spock" (aka "Study for Future Painting #2")
![from issue #21, "Captain Spock" p. 84a: "Sweet Dreams Studio has done a "Supermanish" type Spock in this B&W pencil for a future painting number 2. The blurt in the upper left hand of the picture somewhat spoils the artwork for me. I am wondering if it was done intentionally so that no one could take the picture out of the zine and use it as an actual artwork? I see no reason why the explanation couldn't have been put at the bottom of the picture. The blurt) informs us that the picture was inspired by the story "Spindrift" by Judy. I have no clue who Judy is nor have I read the story. Obviously by looking at the "uniform" Spock is wearing (what little he is wearing) the ship that he is Captain of must be a very interesting ship. I sure he has no shortage of men and women signing up to serve under him. This is one handsome sexy looking Spock, who is rather similar to the picture on p. 84 a, but I think is more powerful and dynamic looking in this pose. This is a study for future painting #2." [1]](/w/images/thumb/c/c1/Thyla21art2.jpg/180px-Thyla21art2.jpg)
from issue #21, "Captain Spock" p. 84a: "Sweet Dreams Studio has done a "Supermanish" type Spock in this B&W pencil for a future painting number 2. The blurt in the upper left hand of the picture somewhat spoils the artwork for me. I am wondering if it was done intentionally so that no one could take the picture out of the zine and use it as an actual artwork? I see no reason why the explanation couldn't have been put at the bottom of the picture. The blurt) informs us that the picture was inspired by the story "Spindrift" by Judy. I have no clue who Judy is nor have I read the story. Obviously by looking at the "uniform" Spock is wearing (what little he is wearing) the ship that he is Captain of must be a very interesting ship. I sure he has no shortage of men and women signing up to serve under him. This is one handsome sexy looking Spock, who is rather similar to the picture on p. 84 a, but I think is more powerful and dynamic looking in this pose. This is a study for future painting #2." [1]
![from issue #21, "Captain Spock" p. 84a: "Sweet Dreams Studio has done a "Supermanish" type Spock in this B&W pencil for a future painting number 2. The blurt in the upper left hand of the picture somewhat spoils the artwork for me. I am wondering if it was done intentionally so that no one could take the picture out of the zine and use it as an actual artwork? I see no reason why the explanation couldn't have been put at the bottom of the picture. The blurt) informs us that the picture was inspired by the story "Spindrift" by Judy. I have no clue who Judy is nor have I read the story. Obviously by looking at the "uniform" Spock is wearing (what little he is wearing) the ship that he is Captain of must be a very interesting ship. I sure he has no shortage of men and women signing up to serve under him. This is one handsome sexy looking Spock, who is rather similar to the picture on p. 84 a, but I think is more powerful and dynamic looking in this pose. This is a study for future painting #2." [1]](/wiki/File:Thyla21art2.jpg)
"Study for Future Painting #1" by U Wish Studios, 2000
![from issue #21, "Future Painting #1" p. 84c: "The works by U. Wish Studios in T'HY'LA 21 have the same obnoxious printing on them that the works by Sweet Dreams Studio have. This one is labeled Study for future painting # 1 but Sweet Dreams has already used that in the zine. At least Sweet Dreams, also, put titles-even if I did object to them being printed on the picture. This B&W pencil drawing on 84 c is the first of three U. Wish Studios drawings that are Kirk and Spock. The style is very similar to Sweet Dreams and without the labels, you might conclude it is the same artist doing both. Or maybe it is the same artist and she just changed her label. I really don't know. [1]](/w/images/thumb/9/9d/Thyla21art3.jpg/180px-Thyla21art3.jpg)
from issue #21, "Future Painting #1" p. 84c: "The works by U. Wish Studios in T'HY'LA 21 have the same obnoxious printing on them that the works by Sweet Dreams Studio have. This one is labeled Study for future painting # 1 but Sweet Dreams has already used that in the zine. At least Sweet Dreams, also, put titles-even if I did object to them being printed on the picture. This B&W pencil drawing on 84 c is the first of three U. Wish Studios drawings that are Kirk and Spock. The style is very similar to Sweet Dreams and without the labels, you might conclude it is the same artist doing both. Or maybe it is the same artist and she just changed her label. I really don't know. [1]
![from issue #21, "Future Painting #1" p. 84c: "The works by U. Wish Studios in T'HY'LA 21 have the same obnoxious printing on them that the works by Sweet Dreams Studio have. This one is labeled Study for future painting # 1 but Sweet Dreams has already used that in the zine. At least Sweet Dreams, also, put titles-even if I did object to them being printed on the picture. This B&W pencil drawing on 84 c is the first of three U. Wish Studios drawings that are Kirk and Spock. The style is very similar to Sweet Dreams and without the labels, you might conclude it is the same artist doing both. Or maybe it is the same artist and she just changed her label. I really don't know. [1]](/wiki/File:Thyla21art3.jpg)
"Study for Future Painting #2" by U Wish Studios, 2000
![from issue #21, "Future Painting #2" p. 84d: "U. Wish Studios has something labeled Study for future painting #2, but that title has already been taken in the zine's portfolio. On p. 84 d, this is a Kirk and Spock embrace. It is the only horizontal picture of the five in the portfolio PLUS it is the only one with the obnoxious labeling tucked down in a comer so it's not so in your face. Like the others it's a B&W pencil. This picture, however, is much like the one following it which is, also, a Kirk and Spock embrace. Both remind me of poses that The Southern Cross did long ago. However, I no longer have my zines so I can double check and cite specific zines and pages. But it doesn't matter, since, of course, there are only so many variations you can do over about 25 years for embraces of Kirk and Spock. Of the two embraces, I like this one better. I think it's highly charged with eroticism. And if I were buying any of these five artworks in the T'HY'LA portfolio as prints, this is probably the one I would buy." [1]](/w/images/thumb/6/65/Thyla21art4.jpg/180px-Thyla21art4.jpg)
from issue #21, "Future Painting #2" p. 84d: "U. Wish Studios has something labeled Study for future painting #2, but that title has already been taken in the zine's portfolio. On p. 84 d, this is a Kirk and Spock embrace. It is the only horizontal picture of the five in the portfolio PLUS it is the only one with the obnoxious labeling tucked down in a comer so it's not so in your face. Like the others it's a B&W pencil. This picture, however, is much like the one following it which is, also, a Kirk and Spock embrace. Both remind me of poses that The Southern Cross did long ago. However, I no longer have my zines so I can double check and cite specific zines and pages. But it doesn't matter, since, of course, there are only so many variations you can do over about 25 years for embraces of Kirk and Spock. Of the two embraces, I like this one better. I think it's highly charged with eroticism. And if I were buying any of these five artworks in the T'HY'LA portfolio as prints, this is probably the one I would buy." [1]
![from issue #21, "Future Painting #2" p. 84d: "U. Wish Studios has something labeled Study for future painting #2, but that title has already been taken in the zine's portfolio. On p. 84 d, this is a Kirk and Spock embrace. It is the only horizontal picture of the five in the portfolio PLUS it is the only one with the obnoxious labeling tucked down in a comer so it's not so in your face. Like the others it's a B&W pencil. This picture, however, is much like the one following it which is, also, a Kirk and Spock embrace. Both remind me of poses that The Southern Cross did long ago. However, I no longer have my zines so I can double check and cite specific zines and pages. But it doesn't matter, since, of course, there are only so many variations you can do over about 25 years for embraces of Kirk and Spock. Of the two embraces, I like this one better. I think it's highly charged with eroticism. And if I were buying any of these five artworks in the T'HY'LA portfolio as prints, this is probably the one I would buy." [1]](/wiki/File:Thyla21art4.jpg)
"Study for Future Painting #3" by U Wish Studios, 2000
![from issue #21, "Future Painting #3" p. 84e by U Wish Studios: "This picture, a B&W pencil of Kirk and Spock embracing, is the final picture in a five picture portfolio. Again an obnoxious label appears in a comer at the top as it did in four of the others. This shows the two embracing from the hips up. Kirk is impossibly slim. I thought it curious that the artist chose not to completely draw Kirk's left arm, Kirk's right arm and Spock's hips. I suppose this was to intensify the preliminary aspect of this drawing for us zine viewers." [1]](/w/images/thumb/8/81/Thyla21art5.jpg/180px-Thyla21art5.jpg)
from issue #21, "Future Painting #3" p. 84e by U Wish Studios: "This picture, a B&W pencil of Kirk and Spock embracing, is the final picture in a five picture portfolio. Again an obnoxious label appears in a comer at the top as it did in four of the others. This shows the two embracing from the hips up. Kirk is impossibly slim. I thought it curious that the artist chose not to completely draw Kirk's left arm, Kirk's right arm and Spock's hips. I suppose this was to intensify the preliminary aspect of this drawing for us zine viewers." [1]
![from issue #21, "Future Painting #3" p. 84e by U Wish Studios: "This picture, a B&W pencil of Kirk and Spock embracing, is the final picture in a five picture portfolio. Again an obnoxious label appears in a comer at the top as it did in four of the others. This shows the two embracing from the hips up. Kirk is impossibly slim. I thought it curious that the artist chose not to completely draw Kirk's left arm, Kirk's right arm and Spock's hips. I suppose this was to intensify the preliminary aspect of this drawing for us zine viewers." [1]](/wiki/File:Thyla21art5.jpg)
Fan Comments
Wow. That's what I said when I opened this zine and saw this portfolio consisting of five portraits, even though I usually like realism in K/S portraits and these portraits are not all that realistic. The two images of Spock presented by Sweet Dreams Studio are both done in a warrior/fantasy sort of style, with an emphasis on masculinity (Spock's jaw seems even squarer than Nimoy's really is, particularly in the second Spock portrait). In U Wish Studios' three portraits, Kirk and Spock are locked in three different forms of an embrace (one with Spock's head draped over Kirk's arm, one with them lying down with Kirk on top, and one in which they're standing together in a pool beneath a waterfall). In the "embrace" trio, the artist seems to be going for a soft, almost boyish look, particularly in Kirk's case. But even though none of these portraits is a precise fit to my usual preferences, they still took my breath away. Several times. I think my favorite is U. Wish Studios' Study for Future Painting #2 (the one with Kirk on top of Spock), but they're all great. [2]
These are a series of five studies for future paintings that just about took my breath away. (I'm not sure I would survive seeing the actual paintings!)The first is titled "The Slave Owner's Dream," and shows a long-haired, very sexy Spock bared from the waist up "wearing the symbol of his clan as well as the blue beads of Cha'ta, designating purchase" in his hair. Gorgeous! Perfect face. Perfect body. (Leonard should ever have looked so good!) Truly the stuff sweet dreams are made of—at least my sweet dreams. This was obviously meant to illustrate a story, and the fact that it was published separately leads me to the sad conclusion that for whatever reasons the story is not going to be printed. I want—no, NEED to read this story!
The second study is equally well executed. The caption says it was inspired by Judy's story "Spindrift," which I will have to reread with this picture in mind. Spock is wearing what appears to be a metal breastplate attached to a long cape draped over his shoulders. I adored the look of arrogance on "Captain" Spock's face.
Next up is basically a head shot of the two of them. Kirk is cradling Spock in his arms and looks to be about to plant a kiss on a particularly delicious part of Spock's neck. All soft lines. Gentle and soft and loving feelings displayed here.
The fourth one shows our guys engaged in a passionate kiss. Spock with long hair underneath the muscular body of his captain. Oh my!
The last is another kiss. This time they are standing in a lake while a waterfall splashes in the background. Our captain's assets are lovingly revealed.
I've always admired this artist's work, and it was such a treat to see it again after years of being absent from the K/S scene. It is obvious she is a Spock person, and while her vision of the character with his idealized face and body may be too AU for many, it happens to fit my fantasies to a tee! [3]