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! 
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
India Ink, benzine ink and graphite on paper, 11 x 17
Oslo
india ink, benzyl ink, pencil, graphite and gouache on paper
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″
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″
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
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, monotype, 16″ x20″
Rex and Rabbit 2, monotype, 16″ x 20″
From the NYC subway, yet again.
T.B.
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darteboard
jdhastings
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Tom Bennett
Toni Tiller
Jason Gray
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