MY OWN ARTWORK 2 - JUST BOYS / boys-beach.jpg

goodguy60 🇦🇺 2012-04-14 12:39
One of the few gallery paintings that depict boys actually embracing in the nude... Playful or affectionate depictions are rare indeed and I wonder if painters and illustrators are actually censoring themselves in an attempt to duplicate the cold, academic, classical style. Boys are not made of polished marble... This artist knows that and paints real flesh and blood boys.

roddy9uk 🇬🇧 2012-09-12 19:17
Thanks for posting this. To go naked in the sun was a rare enough (and forbidden) pleasure as a boy.

goodguy60 🇦🇺 2012-11-26 05:57
My gang used to go to a place deep in a forrest to swim in the nude. As 12 year olds, it seemed natural to remove our underpants away from puritanical adults. A group of schoolgirls saw us once, it was the only time we were discovered naked in the river. They just stripped down to their vests and school knickers and played leap frog as if they were in a gym. We eventually emerged and mixed with them naturally. Nobody acted or talked silly, we just enjoyed each other's company. How strange would that be these days.