Thanks to Joanna Lark for pointing me in the direction of Niagara Deroit, punk musician and painter. In stark contrast to the man in my previous post who wanted his real-life women to resemble inanimate, voiceless pictures, Niagara’s subjects seem to leap from their frames with as much power, personality and bad-girl beauty as the artist herself.

“…The ‘Niagara Girl’, who appears in many female guises, would come to represent feminist swagger with drop dead gorgeous looks and an equally dangerous demeanor,” says Wikipedia. “Hard-boiled, tough talking gals who would rather dispatch a man than put up with any of his antics…”

See more of Niagara Detroit’s femme fatales at FemdomArtists.com or go to her own website, NiagaraDetroit.com.