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Horse Show in the works

Posted in abstract, abstract expressionism, Art, art on paper, contingent art, design, events, exhibits, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, gesture, mixed media, monotype, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, Work in Progress, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 23, 2013 by Tom Bennett

I have several works in an upcoming group show in Brooklyn. The exhibition has a theme: Horses. Theme shows are sometimes iffy, but I have confidence this will be very good. These two mixed media monotype/paintings in progress are part of several final pieces I’m working on for this show. The first one is in a very unresolved stage.

Strawberry Letter 22 or 23

Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , , , on April 6, 2013 by Tom Bennett

Here are just a few recent life drawings done on the MTA, the NYC subway. I take the D, N and R lines to and from Brooklyn and Manhattan; most of the sketching is done at night on the train from Rockefeller Center in Manhattan to Sunset Park, Brooklyn. I have a smallish sketchbook right now, about 8″ x  5.5″. The  challenge is to draw the subjects quickly and hope they don’t catch your eye. That kills it.

I grew up 70 miles from NYC, in the rural town of Ridgefield, Connecticut. I started visiting Manhattan from the age of 2 or 3, driving down the Saw Mill Parkway with my parents as my father delivered art to the publishing houses who hired him to do book cover illustrations. One of the main clients was Pocketbooks, a division of Simon & Schuster, whose offices are on 6th Ave, right across the street from the subway station I use now every day.

The music that speaks New York to me is particular and special to my history of NY as visitor then a 25-year resident. The attached song by the Brothers Johnson will forever conjure up trips to New York in 1978 that invariably ended up with bar-crawling, party-crashing and public debauchery.subway 3-27-13 a

sub 3-27 b

subway 3-27-13b

sub 3-28 a

sub 3-28 b

Old Crotchety Carracci

Posted in Art, art on paper, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, male nude, monotype, narrative art, nude, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 31, 2013 by Tom Bennett

Here’s an old monotype from the archives.

I once spent a week in the Uffizi drawing room collection when one could be issued a special permit to examine original old master drawings by hand (wearing special cotton gloves, of course)–literally holding the ancient drawings on paper in your hands! Needless to say, that special provision is history. Carracci impressed me with his beautifully facile line and form. I came away with a man crush on the old italian.

Montego

Posted in Art, art on paper, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, nude, oil painting, Painting, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , on January 8, 2013 by Tom Bennett

A bit prosaic. Oil on paper, 22″ x 16″

Drawing of a Bear At A Polka Party

Posted in Art, art on paper, Collage, Drawing, J. D. Hastings with tags , , , , on November 20, 2012 by jdhastings

Bears Page 7537

Truth in advertising. I drew the bear. Toni cut it out.

-JD

Sandy Turner

Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, expressionism, expressionist, homage, landscape, monoprint, monotype, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , , on November 9, 2012 by Tom Bennett

This massive storm that rode up the east coast & caused unprecedented havoc has been described to hyperbolic death. So here I am presenting some monotypes I made as a response.  For the first few days after, I kept thinking of JWM Turner’s transcendent paintings.

Tom

Breach 2, monotype, 16″ x 20″

Breach 3, monotype, 16″ x 20″

New York is Tough

Posted in Art, art on paper, expressionism, expressionist, landscape, monotype, news, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , , on November 1, 2012 by Tom Bennett

I’ve lived in NY city for a long time and have experienced this city through many crisis both natural and man-made. It may sound like a cliche but I have found it absolutely true: NYers are  best when circumstances are worst. Hurricane Sandy, the most destructively powerful natural disaster in recorded city history slammed the the northeast causing devastation through the boroughs, not to mention the whole tri-state area. Fear and destruction played out through the last several days but individuals steel through it.

Below is a photo I took several blocks from my house in Brooklyn, as the storm was slowly heading towards us.

Below is a monotype I made later that night, as the city was flooding and i was fortunate enough to have electricity and a dry house.

Breach stage 1

Breach 1, stage 1, monotype, 16″ x 20″

enter … storm sandy

Posted in Art, art on paper, laelia e. mitchell, printmaking, technique with tags , , on October 29, 2012 by laelia e. mitchell

here i sit awaiting the wrath of the superstorm sandy.  so far we still have power and so i’ll quickly post.  spent the weekend in a printmaking workshop in northampton ma discovering the joy of the pronto plate.  it’s a super versatile material originally developed for the commercial printing industry.  here’s a link http://www.nontoxicprint.com/polyesterplatelitho.htm   i’ll definitely continue exploring this process.

in the meanwhile, today i’ll play with woodblock stuff.  since i’m at home, i’ll spread some old tablecloth or something and have some fun

Tramp o’ Lean

Posted in Art, Toni Tiller, Tom Bennett, Painting, mixed media, art on paper, portrait, figurative, work on paper, oil painting, expressionist, expressionism with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 25, 2012 by Tom Bennett

With this piece, based on an image of Toni Tiller (supine on a trampoline), I approached the treatment a little differently than the recent paintings on paper I’ve been doing over the past year. I struggle with an objective analysis here, but the controlled application of paint , conscious distortion and drawing I see as a reaction to the graphic quality of the photo I worked from.

Tom Bennett

Trampoline,  oil on paper, 22″ x 30″

I’m Looking a Little Like Henry Miller

Posted in Art, Tom Bennett, Painting, mixed media, printmaking, monotype, art on paper, portrait, work on paper, oil painting, expressionist, expressionism, monoprint, self portrait with tags , , , , , , , , , , on September 27, 2012 by Tom Bennett

2 self portraits as a grizzly old man. Monotypes with oil overpainting both 20″ x 16″

Tom Bennett

Self Portrait 9-12 Work in Progress

Self Portrait 9-12 #2

Indomniac

Posted in Art, art on paper, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, technique, Tom Bennett, Toni Tiller, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 20, 2012 by Tom Bennett

Took a monotype I made a few years ago of an homage to Valentin de Boulogne’s  Martyrdom  of St Bartholomew and painted back into it. It went from an old man being crucified to a young woman who may have just done some crucifying herself.   I was inspired by a photograph of Toni.

Tom Bennett

The original monotype I found a little  clumsy.

The reworked image.

Dominant at Rest, oil over monotype on paper, 16″ x 20″

Last Day at Beach Point

Posted in Art, art on paper, figurative, gesture drawing, Tom Bennett, Toni Tiller with tags , , , , , , , , , , , on September 13, 2012 by Tom Bennett

She was enjoying a bit of late summer sun  before heading back to the grind.

North Truro, Mass is a tiny piece of heaven.

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Ink & brush pen sketch from life

From the archives: Canecutter

Posted in abstract expressionism, Art, art on paper, expressionist, figurative, gesture, monoprint, monotype, nude, printmaking, Tom Bennett, Toni Tiller, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 22, 2012 by Tom Bennett

Here’s an old monotype inspired by Toni Tiller in a swimming pool one late Connecticut summer day.
TB

canecutter

Canecutter, 2008, monotype, 17″ x 11″, private collection

Mixed Media painting on paper: Sunset Boulevard 2

Posted in Art, art on paper, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monoprint, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 16, 2012 by Tom Bennett

Sorry for the really shitty photograph.

My father, when I was about 10,  once looked down at me and said, “Don’t do what I do, just paint.”

I apparently didn’t learn. Bills to pay , crushing work, hence all I have is this.

Gloria Swanson is grimacing in my sub conscious.

Sunset Boulevard 2, oil, crayon & oil stick over monotype on paper.

printmaking

Posted in Art, art on paper, laelia e. mitchell, monoprint, printmaking, work on paper with tags , , on August 13, 2012 by laelia e. mitchell

i spent last week in a printmaking workshop and am totally enchanted by the medium.  it seems to satisfy both my need to make marks and my love of process.  there’s a lot of process involved … i love it!  i made nothing of merit, however, this little piece started me on the path of mixing monoprinting with chine colle (a fancy french term for glueing paper to paper).

 

 

monoprint with chine colle (poorly photographed with an iphone, hence the vignetting)

Monopoly, Monogamy, Monotony, Monotypes

Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, expressionism, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 2, 2012 by Tom Bennett

Some small painted monotypes for an upcoming show in Massachussets and a naked monotype which came out looking like Gloria Swanson with big boobs.

Tom Bennett

Beauty 2

Beauty 2, monotype with oil overpainting, image 8″ x 6″

beauty

Beauty, monotype with oil overpainting, image 8′ x 6″

sunset boulevard

Sunset Boulevard, monotype on Rives BFK, 12″ x 9″

Small Monotype as Underpainting

Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, Work in Progress, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 26, 2012 by Tom Bennett

This I’m going to paint into.

TB

Age

Age, monotype, 8″ x 6″

art and food …

Posted in "But Is It Art?", art on paper, laelia e. mitchell, Work in Progress with tags , , on July 16, 2012 by laelia e. mitchell

two of my favorite activities.  this week i joined them in a union that may lead me somewhere.  i had just boiled some beets and was really taken (again) with the deep rich color left behind in the water.  i soaked a piece of sketch paper and left it to dry overnight.  testing the paper with white ink, i started drawing circles … a rather mundane yet meditative practice.  the result … barely interesting.

Exit Stage Left

Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, gesture, mixed media, nude, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , , , on July 12, 2012 by Tom Bennett

1st Stage of a painting on monotype.

exitstage1-1

Tom Bennett, Exit Stage 1, work in progress, oil & oil based printmaking inks on Rives BFK,

9″ x 12″

circle game

Posted in art on paper, Drawing, laelia e. mitchell, work on paper with tags , , , on July 2, 2012 by laelia e. mitchell

last week was a circle week in more ways than just drawing … I’ll let you figure that one out. 10 foot rice paper scroll of circles very meditative

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