Satheara has been a Portland Pin-Ups Bombshell for a couple of years, but due to scheduling conflicts we haven’t managed many sessions. Sadly, Satheara is leaving sunny (bwhwahahahahah) Portland for New York at the end of January. She will be back, and we WILL be shooting more!!

All images on this site are © Mike Long 2011. Considerable time, effort and skill was spent creating these artworks…please do not steal my work.

Another Bombshell session with Portland Pin-Ups very own Mandy Apple!! Always fun…

All images on this site are © Mike Long 2011. Considerable time, effort and skill was spent creating these artworks…please do not steal my work.

All images on this site are © Mike Long 2011. Considerable time, effort and skill was spent creating these artworks…please do not steal my work.

While transferring data to a new server here in the studio, I found myself browsing some old Bombshell sessions and found a few portraits that didn’t get finished the first time around. Here are a couple of the first Portland Pin-Ups Bombshell, Cherry Dollface, and a couple of Dottie Diamond, also.

All images on this site are © Mike Long 2011. Considerable time, effort and skill was spent creating these artworks…please do not steal my work.

Ms J – Look at those…eyes!!!

All images on this site are © Mike Long 2011. Considerable time, effort and skill was spent creating these artworks…please do not steal my work.

Another Ms A!!!

All images on this site are © Mike Long 2011. Considerable time, effort and skill was spent creating these artworks…please do not steal my work.

Ms A – what a fun session! Don’t often get hula skirts to play with!! Four of my favorites from the book we created.

All images on this site are © Mike Long 2011. Considerable time, effort and skill was spent creating these artworks…please do not steal my work.

Just back from the awesome Motor City! I had a great time with one of my Pinned-Up workshops. This time, I borrowed the studio of my good friend, Kelly Scaccia. We had four great models and had a blast!

These are my favorite portraits created during the workshop.

For info on arranging a workshop at your studio, see my training site:

Pin-Up Workshops

A few of me in action:

Me, Kelly and the models:

The attendees!:

All images on this site are © Mike Long 2011. Considerable time, effort and skill was spent creating these artworks…please do not steal my work.

I’ve just got back from a trip to Detroit to present one of my Pinned-Up workshops, more of that in another post. While there, I was taken downtown by my good friend, Harold, from my album supplier, Finao. From the horror stories I’d been told before heading there, I wasn’t expecting much, but what I found wasn’t a war zone, but rather a faded but proud city. It’s a shame to me that the city is in such decline – there are a lot of proud people left and I believe a willingness to hunker down and get to work making it great again. If big business would move in, it could be.

Here are some of my favorite images from my trip:

All images on this site are © Mike Long 2011. Considerable time, effort and skill was spent creating these artworks…please do not steal my work.

Ms H – a very fun session!! And just look at those awesome shoes!!

All images on this site are © Mike Long 2011. Considerable time, effort and skill was spent creating these artworks…please do not steal my work.