Bob Dylan, artist?

I didn't know he was as good at painting as music.  This is one of his. (Click to enlarge -- See more at The Guardian's article)

Painting

I paint de temps en temps, but I have a way to go, compared with this!

Odorous Cedar

The Lady of Shallot, by John William Waterhouse

O for a chamber in an eastern tower
Spacious and empty, roofed in odorous cedar;
A window to the ocean, lest of the stormy world
Too deep seclusion make me forgetful.

George Santayana

Gay Artists

In a comment on my Leyendecker post, someone suggested the name of Henry Scott Tuke as a painter of beautiful men. And so he was. I looked him up in Wikipedia. And I've given you some of his pictures. A very different style from Leyendecker, not so? He was most probably gay, being friends with Oscar Wilde and other gay luminaries.

In my research I also discovered the painter Thomas Eakins, who wasn't gay but who obviously was very unconventional and was prepared to defy at great personal cost the strait-laced conventions of society.

Enjoy the images. Beautiful they are.

These are two of Eakins' paintings:

The Wrestlers

Swimming

And here are three of Tuke's:

The Bather

Under a Tree, Jamaica

Noonday Heat

Michael Breyette

Another website I pop into now and again is Michael Breyette's, also in the links on the right of this blog page. He draws and paints extraordinarily beautiful men. This is his latest image. You can buy copies of his paintings from his website.

I like the title of the painting: Rapture. A moment's thought will tell you why.

I confess that it's a little discouraging looking on these idealized, perfect beauties, since I am quite a long way from that. Never mind, I'm very slowly losing weight. But even slender, I won't look like his guys.

[Image copyright Michael Breyette; used with permission]