Using what he calls a «glamorization technique», the artworks of artist Fred Pyrczak make interesting statements about the nature of male beauty. The technique makes the portraits look like male versions of heavily retouched Hollywood divas from the 40s and 50s, a treatment normally reserved for portraits of women. Beautiful in a kitchy, Pierre&Gilles-like way, the portraits are quite interesting and well worth a look. The online gallery is a bit quirky in it’s navigation, but more importantly: it gives the artworks plenty of room.

I rate the gallery 4 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit ZakImages by Fred Pyrczak.

The artwork of MIchael Broderick is caracterized by an extreme beauty of line. With excellent draughtmanship, the drawing’s sinous outlines and Art Nouveau-like compositions contrasts interestingly with the often rather brutal subject matter. Even though the gallery in total may seem a bit similar and monotonous after a while, it is worth a visit - if only for the originality of expression and beauty of the drawings.

I rate the gallery 4 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit Michael Broderic’s Hottlead gallery.

The online portfolio of the Washington DC based artist Scott G. Brooks is hard to classify. Charmingly executed pencil drawings, and paintings with a sweet, childlike look belie their dark, twisted content of sexuality, disfiguration and wierdness. Brooks' background as an illustrator of childrens' picture books is evident in the drawings, and this combined with the contrast of the very somber thematic content of the artworks give them a very special, haunting quality. Not all are obviously gay-themed, but an undercurrent of outsiderish gayness runs through it all. It's facinating on the whole, grotesque and funny - and expertly executed. Scott G. Brooks' online portfolio is very well worth a prolonged visit, I rate it 5 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit Scott G. Brooks' homepage.

The website of the South African artist Moxy Hart is a mixed pleasure, but a pleasure none the less. A fun and charmingly refreshing interface leads the way to four galleries, consisting of nudes, portraits, drawings and something called the "Good Phallus". This last one is very original: mobiles made of coloured or transparent perspex, in the form of be-winged penises floating about under a peaceful cloud. Perhaps not the thing for everyone's drawing room, the artistic contrasting of the "forbidden" motive with the innocence of the object and material makes them interesting pieces of art on their own right - as well as good fun of course. As for the other sections, the drawings is not too good actually, but the nudes and especially the portraits are worth a visit. Mr Hart looks like an artist that has a lot of interesting things coming if he lets him self loose. As it is the gallery is still well worth a look.

I rate the gallery 2 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit Moxy Hart's online gallery.

As a site dedicated to black&white erotic photos of older, heavyset men, Among Gentlemen does not deliver too much. A total of 17 photos, and most of them rather bland, leaves this reviewer mostly cold. But this is not the complete picture: A small handful of the pictures are very good, a couple is arrestingly excellent. So if you have the patience to sort the chaff from the wheat, the site is worth a look. It seems that the gallery is very new, so one can hope that the proportion of good photos will increase over time.

I rate the gallery 2 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit the Among Gentlemen gallery.

The AfriBoy gallery is actually much more interesting than it looks at the first glance. Rather messily presented, the website gives little away of the many interesting artworks the site actually carries. The many paintings, watercolours and drawings in both ink and pencil are presented as rather uninteresting details, that seldom does credit to the whole piece of art. So it all runs down to clicking away on the thumbnail to see if a good - or not so very good at all - artwork turns up. The site is not uninteresting, with original thought in both the artworks and the accompanying text. A better presentation, and a heavier sorting of which artworks to include or not would have helped the gallery enormously.

The most interesting part of the site is the section "Notebooks" - where you actually can flip through the artist's sketchbooks on your own. A good idea, which gives a very special intimacy to seeing the artworks.

I rate the gallery 3 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit the AfriBoy gallery of African male erotic art.

The website of Dutch artist Peter Welleman is a fun and unpretentious collection of his gay comic drawings. Quite cheeky some of them, all are drawn in a charmingly simple style. Not all innocent fun (well, maybe innocent isn't the correct word here), some of the drawings raises a more political tone. Many of the drawings sadly have only Dutch text, but the rest make the site well worth a visit. A refreshing site on the whole, I give it 4 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit Peter Welleman's gay cartoon gallery.

Having reviewed the artwork of Paul Richmond earlier in this blog, it is interesting to note that in this new online gallery his work is much easier accessible. In addition to building a flashy but professional looking front-end for the gallery, a clearer sorting of the artworks makes visiting the gallery to a much better experience than earlier. The most interesting work is found in the gallery "Paintings", where poetic watercolours and collages give a sensitive treatment of questions of identity and sexuality. The "Cheesecake" gallery is all kitschy fun, a irreverent pastiche of American commercial painting in an Rockwellian vein. The gallery's heavy use of Flash makes the site rather slow, but it's very well worth a visit and recieves 5 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit the Paul Richmond Studio.

The online gallery of the Californian artist Sam Frazier is neatly divided into two large sections: Photo and "Artwork" - which here doesn't at all mean that the photos aren't works of art. Neither section is uninteresting, both have many good artworks. The photos are mainly shot as to look as candid, intimate pictures of close friends or lovers in what mostly looks like their private lives. In the bondage-inspired "Restraint" section of the photos, the surroundings are naturally a bit rougher, but here as well the photos mostly give a feeling more of peace and harmony than of violent restraint. An interesting contrast, and in the other sections the feeling of snapshots of gays having a good time with their loved ones is very marked. All with a nice sense of composition and colour, the photos are well worth a look.

The "artworks" are divided into two sections again, photo collages and other collages. The photo based section is by far the most interesting, with its mystical, dreamlike quality. The incorporated nudes take on a symbolic, often haunting quality in the artworks, making this section possibly the one most worth a prolonged visit.

TrustFido.com has much interesting art from a very prolific artist, and I rate it 5 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit TrustFido.com.

The Mannenknipwerk web gallery is something as unusual as traditional decorative paper cuttings - with a homoerotic twist! Technically accomplished, the delicate cuttings make an interesting contrast between the innocent old-fashioned technique and the controversiality of homoerotic art. Celebrating the beauty of the form of the male nude, the artworks make the homoerotic content seem idyllic in the vein of greek vase painting. A larger contrast between subject matter and technique would have made the collection even more interesting, but it is well worth a short visit as it is.

The website also has a collection of charming pencil drawings, but it is the paper cuttings that stick in memory.

Mannenknipwerk is quite original, and worth a look. I give it 3 out of 6 stars.

You can visit the website of this anonymous belgian artist by clicking here.

The online gallery of German artist Rinaldo Hopf is well worth a visit, even though the navigation is rather quirky. The artworks spans over a series of styles including watercolours, photography, installation art and painting, and some still shots from an art film. It's all actually good, and some of it more so. The paintings are not his best work, but the photography is mostly excellent, ranging from portraits of drag queens and queer celebrities to traditional nudes and more "arty", and indeed better, seminudes. What looks like the strongest work of the artist is his installation work, which seems to be very strong and intriguing. This kind of art is not easy to assess from photos, and I´d truly love to see some of them live sometime.

Mr Hopf's website is very well worth a visit, and I give it five out of six possible stars.

Click here to visit Rinaldo Hopf's online gallery.

What can one say about the art of Ted Fusby? A lot of it is not very good technically, and the variation in themes between the artworks doesn't seem to be very large either. But. But. Taking a closer look at the artworks reveals their originality. Charmingly similar to children's books illustrations, the art is executed in soft watercolours and coloured pencils. The subjects are often touchingly portrayed, and looks like portraits of persons (ok - men) close to the artist, laughing, having fun, or looking shyly away. Not all pictures are of this quality, as some are quite trite, but the main body is actually quite appealing and interesting. Well worth a prolonged visit if you can bear with sorting the chaff from the wheat.

I rate the gallery 3 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit Ted Fusby's online gallery.

The fine art photography of French artist Partick Gerbier seems at first to fall into the classical, "tasteful" niche of gay photography. Row upon row of photos of nude, muscular men that are graphically arranged in a photographic studio, shadow and light playing gracefully in black & white over their clean-shaved surfaces. Quite well done actually, but oh so traditional. But this is not all the truth about Gerbier's varied portfolio. His earlier work is a large series of mixed-media work, or to be more precise: painted photographs, where the artist in an expressionistic and original way seems to explore various facets of male energy and character. Well wort a visit!

I rate the gallery 4 out of 6 stars.

You can visit Patrick Gerbier's home page by clicking on this link.

The art of the South African artist Chris Diedericks is truly excellent. All the more a shame that the web design on his home page is quite unfortunate, as an all but unreadable font in the menu system leaves the visitor guessing his way around the sites messy structure - or leaving in frustration. But the art is actually well worth some hard work. Poetic and sensitive sculptures of male nudes and gay couples, intriguing collages, exciting concept art and delicate drawings is just some of the works of art you can find on the web site.A very talented and prolific artist, and I'd truly love to see more of his work presented in a more proficient way.

I rate the gallery 4 out of 6 stars, the art itself is worth a full 6, but as it is it's to hard accessible for the full mark.

You can visit Chris Diedericks by clicking on this link.

Flying Wolf Studio is the creation of Jeff Spicer, a Kentucky based artist specializing in gay and homoerotic art in addition to portrait work. The gallery is not huge, but has a varied and interesting selection of pastels of the nude male body, and brings really excellent workmanship to the quite original artwork. Each artwork is well commented by the artist, adding further interest to the images. It would be interesting to see some more work by this artist, perhaps extending the scope of the subject matter further. The gallery is very well worth a visit for its originality of subject matter, and the beauty of some of the pastels.

I rate the gallery four out of six stars.

Click here to visit Jeff Spicer's Flying Wolf Studio.