Arm Pit Faust, 36x48x2" inches oil on gallery stretched canvas by Kenney Mencher

You won't have to frame this painting. The stretcher bars are super thick and wrapped in canvas and stapled on the back.

This homoerotic portrait of a hairy bearded man showing armpits is an attempt to take my art to next level. I've been moving up in size and trying to take my men to the monumental level.

The paint texture is important in my paintings. I work with thick impastos (thick layered paint) and this takes quite a lot of time and materials to work on. I've been taking some of the smaller successful works and attempting to work on the same subjects again in a larger format where I can experiment with texture and mark making a little more.

In the studio shots you see a smaller version of the painting which is already sold (sorry). There is also a small preliminary drawing of this one available of the same subject here.

This is on gallery stretched canvas which means it is stapled on the back and the canvas wraps around the sides.

You won't need to frame this painting because the edges of the canvas are wrapped with canvas and are 2-3/8" deep (see one of the photo of the back and edge above.) The canvases themselves are a work of art and really well constructed.

There's just something about a hot young man and his armpits. This gentleman has that perfect hair and goatee beard that I always associate with a devilish person. The Falling forelock and the chest hair