John H, (Silver Fox) 11x14 inches oil on canvas panel by Kenney Mencher

John H, 11x14 inches oil on canvas panel by Kenney Mencher

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This is an original oil painting not a reproduction.

My friend John is a “silver fox.” What does it mean to be called a silver fox?

Fox is a word that has not just one positive anthropomorphized quality, but two: cleverness and attractiveness. A term with a more specific positive connotation is silver fox, generally meaning “an attractive middle-aged man having mostly gray or white hair.” Smoldering look not required.

In this painting, I also liked the added components of his cowboy hat and his tank top tee shirt.  Combined with his devil may care smile and gray beard this guy is an incendiary kind of gay fantasy.  A bit of a departure for me was to drop in the landscape with the sunset sky in the background, both interesting as a metaphor and as a colorful almost abstract color and texture study.

Daddies are huge online, as middle age gay guys (‘sirs’) hunt for younger guys (‘sons’ or ‘bois’) to overpower.

Built on the classical power imbalance of a sub/dom relationship, the Daddy scene overlaps with the thriving leather and kink scenes. Hey consenting adults can do whatever they like, as long as they clean up afterwards.

This is painted on a canvas panel.  Why do I paint on canvas panel? Mainly for the durability.  Canvas panels are made with a rigid core with canvas glued directly to the rigid base.  Unlike stretched canvas, boards warp less and expands and contracts less.  It’s sturdier to ship and will endure the heat and cold better so the paint will crack and chip less than a stretched canvas which flexes and changes as in different temperatures and environments.

It's also a standard frame size so you can buy an “open back frame kit” anywhere on the web from Amazon, to Blick, or even on Etsy.  Visit a framing shop and they usually have premade frames in this size that they can pop into a frame and wire up for you right on the spot.

If you look closely, you may be able to see a little bit of the crayon sketch I did to lay out this painting, however, this painting was completed in about eight hours and done in the wet into wet or alla prima method.

Alla prima refers to a direct painting approach where paint is applied wet on wet without letting earlier layers dry. In Italian, the term alla prima means “at first attempt.”

Paintings created in this approach are usually completed within a single session. This made it popular with the Impressionists, as they were able to more easily capture the fleeting light and color of the environment.

Prior to the rise of alla prima painting, artists commonly used a layering approach, which involved painting one layer, letting it dry, then painting another layer on top. Artists sometimes built up over 50 layers of paint. As you would expect, this is a very laborious and time-consuming approach, especially considering the slow drying time of oil paint.

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