Framed on a wall, saved in a collection or even hidden in the closet, these MALE EROTIC ART PRINTS beg for and get your attention :-)

Here on eBay, I sell original artwork and limited edition prints of the originals. If you take the time to check out my seller feedback, you'll see that you can bid with confidence. From my gypsy days as show-dancer a yearning for travel stays strong, and sometimes, especially during the winter for months at a time I suspend activity here on eBay while practicing my art in sunnier warmer places like Brazil or Mexico. I am especially fond of these two places because of the beauty of the men and a mentality that for me is dangerously seductive. I can only hope that my art reflects my total admiration and enjoyment of a healthy masculine mind in a healthy naturally endowed body. As idealized as some would say my images are, the models themselves do exist. I like to think my art captures some of the perfection, of the moment in time, and is a reminder of what is, what was, and what will be.

All the prints of my own artwork are  on 8 1/2 x 11 heavy-weight satin-finish stock using the highest quality ink. They are signed and dated when mailed.
 

With a few noted exceptions (when the original artwork demands it) the image area is just slightly larger than the opening of a standard 11x14 matte and for use in an 11x14 inch frame. This standardization of sizes will simplify  framing or otherwise displaying a collection.

 The print is sent in an clear acrylic sleeve, in a double cardboard reinforced envelope,  inside a plain manila 10x13 inch envelope using first class mail.  More than one print may be included at mailing, but there is no discount on multiple purchases.

 Check my FEEDBACK and you'll bid with confidence 

- More about my prints -

My prints are listed here on eBay only 7 months of the year. Normally I stop listing in October and hope to begin listing again the following April. All my prints use the same technology, are of similar size and fall into two basic categories:

In the first category are prints made from scans of my own artwork. They're listed on a rotation basis. Sometimes, but not often, I list one of my original pieces. To see my art go to www dot tomjonesmen dot com

In the second category are prints made from scans of work by artists that I highly respect such as Harry Bush and Sadao Hasegawa, Antonio Lopez and Bill Ward, who are no longer alive and whose work (as I present it), to my knowledge, is not available elsewhere. These prints are listed during two to 5 weeks, once or twice a year. The Harry Bush, Bill Ward and Antonio Lopez prints do conform to standard matting, being sized 9.7 x 7.6 inches. However, the Sadao Hasegawa and Leonard prints would need custom matting, as the images don't conform to a standard uniform size. These images are printed as large as possible on 8.5 x 11 inch heavy-weight satin-finish stock.
 

It's been said that in our culture, we are defined more by what we have rather than who we are. But changing who we are, for better or worse, is also done through choosing what we have. Valuable time and resources are used in creating and offering something, but energy is also involved in purchasing things which we imagine to enhance our lives – something to have and to hold, something not to throw away. Should you buy my art, our exchange is from one person to another. It is mediated by eBay, but essentially only you and I are transacting - it involves no anonymous corporation, no mass media marketing, nor a trade system that depends on supplying repetitive reproductions at the cheapest price. I like to think that this one-on-one aspect helps us, you and I, maintain solidarity as gay men despite all the systemic attempts to make us feel alone and isolated as anonymous programmable consumers. The images I post here are one more affirmation that gays exist in every culture and historical framework and that we have contributed immensely to the astounding variety and betterment of the incredible world we live in.

Returns for replacement (in the case of accidental damage) are accepted.

Returns for refund are not accepted.

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Go back with me, if you will, to the mid-80's. If that's beyond your memory span, watch 'the celluloid closet' to get an overview of gay life at that time. Being ever the rebel, and as most professions that used my talents were not willing/able to acknowledge openly an employee's sexuality, I consciously decided I wouldn't work any job situation that didn't. I'd spent 10 openly gay years professionally dancing overseas and refused to be put back in the closet to appease Jesse Helms and company (google the bigot if you don't get the reference).

At the time a too-young air-headed blond Saggitarian slept in my bed but lived in another world. We tried to connect, or at least it seemed we should have, but it ended up him wishing me dead. Why? because I refused to let him use my license plates/insurance to drive his car wherever he and his dizzy friends decided to go . he'd lost that right thanks to a DUI (driving under the influence). at the height of my frustration I dreamed us on opposite snowy cliffs, me shouting across the void to him and him yelling angrily back "what! I can't HEAR you!" Of course the yelling itself triggered the avalanche and I woke up shivering realizing I should be worried about ME, not him. Then came the realization that all the classic advice I'd been spouting to him about finding something he WANTED to do and DO it, was advice I myself should take. That morning I mailed off a few of my small collection of male nude drawings to the number-one gay publication, Advocate Men and some to the address inside a little gay publication that often used horrible, truly horrible, male nude art (worse than toilet stall stuff). sad but true, my entry into my profession was made easy by the pathetically low standard that existed then (and in many cases still does) in male erotica. My drawings were accepted. Advocate Men offered me a portfolio showing and FirstHand Publications offered a contract.

They'd send me all kinds of stories to illustrate and I discovered I had more range than I'd thought. And soon on I developed a drawing technique that sped up the process and my drawing ‘style’ emerged - drawing with an eraser. (Take a hard graphite stick and a piece of sandpaper and make some graphite dust, then swipe a big pink pearl erasure through it and stroke it on the paper. You get a sharp line if the eraser has a sharp edge and you get a wide soft stroke using it flat. What you don’t get is a mark indented in the drawing paper, which means you can rework the drawing a lot before it’s trashed.) Those early drawings were initially fairly discrete, pretty. I remember the initial surprise and then spreading satisfaction of drawing my first close-up of an asshole.

After some portfolio showings in the glossies, (Advocate Men, Torso, In Touch) things settled down to monthly contributions to illustrate the jackoff manuscripts the FirstHand publishers sent me. It seemed the glossier the magazine the more neurotic and obsessive the art director and most of the time the hassle wasn't worth it.

FirstHand publications, based in New Jersey, accepted every drawing I mailed them and paid promptly and in full. The W2 forms they sent showed income enough to pay my bills, keep me in drawing shape, and exercise my imagination muscles. but it wasn't like it was 'important' work, just a way to get by and live like I wanted. And I liked doing it. Over the years, other artists would mail me of their woes of missing payment and unfair dealings. While others suffered in their labors, those publishers treated me like a prince. The only problem I ever had was toward the end when there were management changes and a lot of originals were 'lost'. I'd have been tempted to steal some of them myself, so I understood and resigned myself to not obsess about it.

During those years I also got acquainted with the California art scene. I had a built-in distrust because of my correspondence with Harry Bush. He'd hated everything about the business there and he warned me to expect the worst. It was as he said. Stars magazine ripped me off for $1000 as soon as they could. Christopher Harrity at Stroke used my work and seemed a nice guy, but the magazine was, for both Harry and me, over-the-line sleazy. Then there was a love/hate affair with the Tom of Finland guys, Dehner, Valentine (president and artist/secretary) and Sharp being AOK and Volker (art director) the monkey wrench. I went to California a few times and everyone in the business was cordially smiling perfect teeth and nice, but advised me not to trust anyone else in the business, all with rip-off stories of their own.

Every month complimentary copies of whatever magazine my art appeared in were in my rural mailbox, and every month I'd have to take time to tear them up and burn them on the trash pile, making sure no wayward singed image of cock remained for some family or foe to discover. I was out to my family, but not THAT OUT:-) I wouldn't have minded them seeing my stuff, well, most of it, OK, some of it, but the magazines taken as a whole were over-the-line all of the time. So I'd just save the pages with my art, unless I'd drawn something that shocked me!

As the era died with the advent of free porn on the Internet, the magazines were finally very slick and glossy but sales dropped and the publishers cut their illustration budgets and reprinted old stuff for free. The survivors wanted color illos, not black/white. I had to adapt, i.e. learn to paint. instruction was excellent and cheap on PBS’s ‘Welcome to my Studio’ with Helen Van Wyck. It looked easier than it was. But eventually I caught on. My advantage was knowing the anatomy from the inside out, having a healthy contempt for the moral standards of my time, being ignored and having time to learn, and getting enough encouragement from whatever source. And that led me out of the commercial side and into a more artistic stance as I stopped with all illustration assignments and concentrated on just doing a painting.

Then in 2000 my eyes were opened as to what a computer could do. I connected to the Internet and sat there gazing into cyberspace seeing my future. It seems in no time at all computer tech has combined with my newly-found ability to paint to connect me with a worldwide audience on eBay. But there censorship and sundry other things clipped my lusty sails for a bit, but the fickle wind at times picks up speed.

My art has been featured in Blue magazine (published in Australia)  Homens (published in Brazil), Unzipped, InTouch, AdvocateMen, Stars, Stroke and FirstHand (all American).

it's also been included in three hardcover art books - Stripped, 100 Male Artist of the Human Figure, and "The World's Greatest Erotic Art of Today - Vol. 4"

Hey, as long as you're here....
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Tom Jones Men