BEAUTY: Painting--Andrew Sedgwick Guth

Andrew Sedgwick Guth's style is so open and honest and approachable, from his simply sketched figures to his fun, bright color palette, to his use of mixed materials like found ephemera and beeswax!

Top to bottom: Acadia I (tell me all your stories); after, after (oh, winter); I didn't change, I became (a thousand voices); poets (there's a blue light, there's a feeling); stories of gods and heroes (spring); the things i loved (summer); watching boats, planes, and pretty white clouds (the song begins); watching the stars collide; where we used to go when all was wrong (lilies and jewels); your blue waves in the night (come back, come back)

http://www.andrewsedgwickguth.com/

BEAUTY: Painting--Hrvoje Majer

The portraiture work of Hrvoje Majer is a homoerotic love letter to the beauty of men's faces and bodies.

Top to bottom: Afternoon In Berlin; Equinox Encounter; Grandfather's Coat; He Just Couldn't Deal With It; He Was Good With His Hands; He Was Good With His Hands II; Holiday; Letting It Go; Looking At The Freud; Past Hurts...Until You Let It Go; Skater's Morning; The Great Gardener

https://www.instagram.com/hrvoje.majer/

BEAUTY: Painting--Andre Serfontein

With yesterday's posting of Travis Collinson's exaggerated figures in mind (seen here), let's look at the paintings of Cape Town artist Andre Serfontein. Instead of exaggerating the eyes like Collinson, he paints his models with sensual, elongated necks.

Top to bottom: Braced; Cityslicker; Empty Crisis; Eutierria; Fractured Dream; He cried a lot but he stood his ground; Milk and Honey; Monkey on the Shoulder; Paradise Recovered; Porthole; The Crossing; The Fur

https://www.andreserfontein.com/

BEAUTY: Painting--Paul Schulenburg

Artist Paul Schulenburg paints fishermen and dock laborers from a voyeuristic vantage point. He celebrates not only the dignity of the intense labor required for the fishing industry, but also the beauty of the male form at work and at rest in these simple but majestic homoerotic images.

Top to bottom: A Tenuous Line; Back To The Harbor; By The Pier; Days End; Fisherman In The Shadows; Fresh Ice; Pensive Fisherman; Ready The Line; Shoveling Ice; Wait For The Next Boat

http://www.schulenburgstudio.com/index.html

BEAUTY: Painting--Jack Balas

Jack Balas is an American painter, photographer, and writer whose homoerotic, collage-like work references graffiti, sports, cartoons, typography, and advertisements. Balas was a 1995 recipient of an individual fellowship in painting from the National Endowment for the Arts.


Top to bottom: Introducing The Universe; It's Not Over Til It's Over; Joe Boy (See'd); Southern Cross; Sweet Dreams (Ditto, Babes); The Enduring Times; Tug; Vast, Yet Still
http://www.jackbalas.com/