Ben Kimura

Ben Kimura is a wonderful Japanese illustrator and artist who paints the most exquisite men, mostly athletes, and that includes a lot of swimmers and well-carved men in tiny speedos. He is represented by Studio Kaiz, a Japanese online gallery (the website is in Japanese, except for a few headers).

A few years ago, I happened on a number of large images of his paintings, and turned them into wallpapers for my own desktop. Then I saw nothing more about him until recently, when I stumbled on some of his newer speedo images with his gallery's name on a few different art blogs. So, here for your pleasure, and perhaps for your consideration, are some of my favorite Ben Kimura paintings as mirror-style wallpapers. Most are 1365 x 1024. Three are 1680 x 1050.