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Oslo

Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, gesture drawing, mixed media, nude, Painting, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Drawing, figure, ink and pencil, mixed media, nude, Painting, Tom Bennett on July 28, 2011 by Tom Bennett

Oslo
india ink, benzyl ink, pencil, graphite and gouache on paper

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Unconscious Crab Roll on the Beach

Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, gesture drawing, mixed media, nude, Painting, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, Drawing, figure, mixed media, nude, sketch, Tom Bennett on July 14, 2011 by Tom Bennett

Another quick sketch between lunch and the next thing.

I’m thinking about the cottage and the lobster and the sea. Not that this image necessarily says that.

mixed media: pencil, graphite, ink, benzyl ink, gouache on paper; 9″ x 12″

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Pussy Cats and Dead Girls

Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, gesture drawing, monotype, nude, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, Drawing, figure, ink and pencil, monotype, nude, nude and cat, sketch, Tom Bennett on July 7, 2011 by Tom Bennett

That sounds like a good title for a hard-boiled pulp detective novel by someone named Max Phillips, doesn’t it?

Nude and Cat
mixed media on paper, 12″ x 9″

Figure and Cat
mixed media on paper, 12″ x 9″

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Art Monkey and the Aborted Doodle

Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, gesture drawing, nude, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Drawing, figure, nude, Tom Bennett on June 16, 2011 by Tom Bennett

I’m back in my midtown studio playing the court jester of drawing. While I was waiting on what is known as a “CD”, I started and abandoned this scratchy scrawl. pencil, ink, xylene, gouache and angst. yeah, right.

Nude as Landfill

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Monotypes from Life, Indirectly

Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, gesture drawing, monotype, nude, printmaking, technique, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, art on paper, bestiality, cat, figure, life drawing, monotype, monotype printmaking, nude, printmaking, Sleep, Tom Bennett on May 19, 2011 by Tom Bennett

To be clear, if one is making a monotype from life, working from a an inanimate subject like a still life doesn’t pose many problems. working from a live landscape is more challenging in that one requires a press(if one is using a press) to be nearby, and working from the live model is only problematic if the model becomes uncomfortable since the process can be a stop and start, dragged out thing. The monotypes below were made from life “once removed”, in that I drew the model in a sketchbook first and then created the monos from the drawings.

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