Archive for the gesture drawing Category

no studio time makes laelia cranky

Posted in Drawing, gesture drawing, laelia e. mitchell, work on paper with tags , , on March 12, 2012 by laelia e. mitchell

not once last week did i enter the studio … nor did i make the little spare time i had into ad hoc drawing time.  this makes me a wee bit grouchy, HOWEVER, here’s a drawing from a couple weeks ago that i kinda like.  this week is all different with a couple days dedicated to …ME! :)

 

Nude as Land Mass

Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, gesture drawing, mixed media, nude, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , on March 8, 2012 by Tom Bennett

My cat’s sick, my car’s in the garage, I’m doing commercial work and I’ve got several unfinished paintings in a state of mess in my studio, so I’m posting this simple direct mixed media sketch. My alma mater won at the Garden in OT, though, so that mitigates something. I think.

Folded Figure

Folded Figure
India Ink, benzine ink and graphite on paper, 11 x 17

Oslo

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

oslo

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

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 , , , , , , , 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.

crab roll

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

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 , , , , , , , , 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 & cat

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

figure with cat

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

Art Monkey and the Aborted Doodle

Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, gesture drawing, nude, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , 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

Nude as Landfill

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 , , , , , , , , , , , 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.

Tom Bennett

Rex and Rabbit 1

Rex and Rabbit 1, monotype, 16″ x20″

Rex and Rabbit 2

Rex and Rabbit 2, monotype, 16″ x 20″

Represent.

Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, gesture, gesture drawing, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , on March 31, 2011 by Tom Bennett

From the NYC subway, yet again.

T.B.

sub 3-30 d

sub 3-30 a

sub 3-30 c

sub 3-30 b

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