The gallery of Virginia artist David Alan Crumpler is worth a look. He is a truly excellent draughtsman, rendering his sensitive portraits and male nudes with soft pencil shades and lightning, and very beautiful lines. Even the perfect-bodied nudes seem more like portraits of real people, with character and personality, than simple idealisations.

The artistic depth of the artworks is not great however, and after a while one gets a bit bored by their similarity. But I assume that these artworks aren’t actually made to hang together as a large exhibition. They are presumably meant to hang alone, for example as a commissioned portrait of a loved one – and in that capacity they are nice, very proficient – and quite likeable in their straightforward way.

I rate David A Crumplers gallery 3 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit his website: http://www.muscleart.org/malenudes.htm