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Nice and Easy

Posted in Art, art on paper, expressionism, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, technique, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , , , on December 22, 2011 by Tom Bennett

When taking monotypes and working back into them with other media, I intend to allow the under-print to be an integral part of the process and have a dialogue with the fresh mark making. With this piece I fear I have pushed to far with the paint and the literal form. The most overt area revealing the print is the space on the right with amorphous cell-like blobs. That said, I like the spotty abstracted relationships and may accept this as sort of a red-headed step child, even though she’s a brunette.

Tom Bennett

Wrong Turn

Nice and Easy, oil on monotype, rives bfk paper, 20″ x 16″

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Work in Progress: Konja

Posted in Art, art on paper, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , on December 15, 2011 by Tom Bennett

A monotype currently being revisited. Something about this makes me think of, remember fondly, my experiences in Turkey. I can’t tell you why.

WIP-Konja

WIP: Konja, 2003-2011, oil paint over oil based monotype on paper, 24″ x 18″

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in some sort of transition …

Posted in Art, Drawing, laelia e. mitchell, mixed media with tags , , , on December 5, 2011 by laelia e. mitchell

i’ve concluded that there’s a substantial part of me that has always wanted to be a painter/printmaker.  the move to a studio has allowed me to open up to other mediums … and i’m eager to investigate.  the generative process of printmaking is especially appealing as it requires me to fiddle around with a mechanical component (which i love) and it provides multiples (which i also love).  drawing is also calling to me as it enables me to play and be spontaneous.  it’s all very unnerving having spent so many years as a photographer.  what is apparent, however, is that i’m still working within a frame.  that’s the photographer in me and that’s ok as it provides some sort of platform.

this is acrylic on paper and ink.  image is approx 7″ x 7″ .

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Oil Paint Over Older Monotype: Age Before Beauty

Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, expressionist, figurative, Miscellaneous, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , , on November 24, 2011 by Tom Bennett

Happy Thanksgiving.

age before beauty

Age Before Beauty, 1993-2011, oil study into monotype on paper. 20″ x 16″

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Signed, Sealed and Delivered

Posted in Art, art on paper, art school, current events, events, exhibits, figurative, Miscellaneous, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, openings, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 6, 2011 by Tom Bennett

Silvermine Art Center in New Canaan, CT is organizing a fundraising event it has hosted for 10 years now, Signed, Sealed and Delivered. It’s an art sale and auction designed for collectors and art lovers featuring over 500 small, 4″ x 6″ original works in all media for sale at $50 each, to benefit the Center’s programs and outreach.

I’m contributing these 3 tiny paintings, all oil over monotype on Rives BFK printmaking paper. I rarely, if ever, paint this small with oil and I find it to be a disciplined exercise in control and direct manipulation of materials and form. Hellzalotta of fun.

Tom

ssd1

SSD 1, oil on monotype on paper, 6″ x 4″

ssd2

SSD 2, oil on monotype on paper, 6″ x 4″

ssd3

SSD 3, oil on monotype on paper, 4″ x 6″

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In the Auerbach of my Mind

Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, figurative, male nude, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , on September 8, 2011 by Tom Bennett

Another reworked monotype. I was thinking about Frank Auerbach, the great british figurative expressionist. He’s one of the painters floating in the back of my head; his aggressive paint-slathering is of such a unique character it has hammered itself there into my sub-brain. My application isn’t mimicking his nor is it close, it’s the attitude he has with working and reworking this viscous medium until it practically destroys the surface and has to be scrapped down and rebuilt all over again. I’m having a great deal of fun exploring and tripping along with these old prints I made back at Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking workshop in Manhattan.

A Nod to Frank

A Nod to Frank, 1993-2011, oil paint on monotype on paper, 24″ x18″

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Dark Trade: New Coat of Paint for Old Print

Posted in Art, art on paper, figurative, gesture, male nude, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 1, 2011 by Tom Bennett

I’m continuing to take old and not particularly successful monotypes and reworking them with oil paint. It’s not quite working here perhaps because I haven’t resolved the relationship of the figure and its treatment with the breaking up of the picture plane. The shapes are not jiving, but I do like the figure.

Extended Right 1992-2011

Extended right, oil paint on monotype on paper, 1992-2011

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Sketches for Painting

Posted in abstract expressionism, Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, homage, mixed media, nude, oil painting, Painting, sculpture, technique, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , on August 25, 2011 by Tom Bennett

One of the many themes I’ve worked on over the years is the male figure; in particular the male back, often inspired by classical painting and sculpture. I find The heightened muscular forms and volumes of figures created by renaissance and baroque artists like Michelangelo, Bandinelli and Caravaggio great subjects for abstraction and distortion. Many of the details of figures from antiquity, when looked at with an open perspective create vast conceptual worlds of abstracted landscape and space.

Here I’m making loose color studies as an exploration for larger finished pieces. Its an exercise in balancing control and accident on the way to discovering expressive formal, emotive and metaphysical paths. I’ve included an older oil painting I created years ago in Spain as one of the first forays into this area. It was based on sketches and watercolors I had done from a sculpture of Neptune in the Piazza Signoria in Florence.

herc

Herc, mixed media on paper, 12″ x 9″

signoria

Signoria, mixed media, 12″ x 9″

Barcelona Neptune, 1986, oil on canvas

Barcelona Neptune, 1986, oil on canvas, 48″ x 36″

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Insomniac Oil on Paper

Posted in Art, art on paper, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , on August 4, 2011 by Tom Bennett

Late the other night while I was half asleep I was slogging through my dungeon studio making monotypes. I pulled the final one which I decided had some interesting passages. A few days later I realized it was only salvageable by working back into it with more materials. I painted into this with more oil paint and varnish medium as well as various paint sticks of different viscosities. It’s not working completely; I’ll look at it again later in the week. She’s someone to take home to mom, huh?

The torpid stare is how I felt the other night in the dank sweltering basement, so maybe it has some validity after all.

Insomnia, oil  on Stonehenge paper, 20″ x16″

detail

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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 , , , , , , , on July 28, 2011 by Tom Bennett

oslo

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

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Salad days

Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, mixed media, portrait, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , on July 21, 2011 by Tom Bennett

Greens were eaten that hot day at the neighborhood bar in Carroll Gardens. She was amused that he had ordered a Greek Salad as the Japanese team brought honor to their distraught nation.

Salad Days

mixed media: graphite, pencil, goauche, benzyl alcohol ink, india ink

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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 , , , , , , , 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″

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Making Art is All About the 4 year-old.

Posted in "But Is It Art?", Art, art on paper, Drawing, gesture, mixed media, technique, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , on June 30, 2011 by Tom Bennett

I’m tired and when I’m tired I throw stuff down on paper and slop it around, pretending that my subconscious has something to do with the chaotic garbage that is left.

But is it art?

Humans are full of sh*t , huh?

PIG, mixed media on paper, 11″ x 7″

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Sketch of a Nude

Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, mixed media, nude, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , on June 23, 2011 by Tom Bennett

another pencil/ink/mixed media sketch

Nude as Landfill 2

Nude as Landfill 2, mixed media on paper 8″ x 10″

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Drawings

Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, geture drawing, mixed media, nude, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , on March 3, 2011 by Tom Bennett

from the NYC subway this week:

And not from the subway:

pencil, graphite, gouache and ink:

Undercooked

Pear

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The Ice Woman Cometh

Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, gesture, mixed media, nude, Painting, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , on December 16, 2010 by Tom Bennett

The dead of winter is upon us here in the Northeast. But I’m free from the corporate chains I’ve been carrying, at least for a little while.
Now I can whip myself back into painting full time. Flagellation, begin!
In the meantime, here’s a trifling mixed media drawing on paper.

Darkness Falls(

Darkness Falls
india ink, graphite, letraset ink and gouache. 9″ x 12″

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Pole Dance

Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, gesture, mixed media, nude, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , on December 9, 2010 by Tom Bennett

The figure in a dance of distortion. ink and graphite with gouache on paper. 11″ x 8.5″

Elin Pole 12-10 (L)

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Disturbing

Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, homage, mixed media, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , on November 18, 2010 by Tom Bennett

Someone recently suggested these were disturbing in a Tracey Emin kind of a way. Peculiar. That is scary. I don’t know.
These may have some autobiographical connections. The first is loosely based on a Van Dyke.

Mixed media: india ink, letraset ink, graphite

drunken silenus 1
Drunken Silenus 1

drunken silenus 2
Drunken Silenus 2

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Abstraction and Representation

Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, figurative, mixed media, monotype, oil painting, Painting, portrait, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , on September 9, 2010 by Tom Bennett

This week I’m posting 3 more or less unrelated pieces. I started the portrait last week with oil paint and a black oil medium with turpentine washes on a composite board treated with a gypsum-based hide-glue gesso, hand-made decades ago by my father. It’s a work in progress I’m posting as a documentation of a first “state”.
I’m including an abstract monotype that I printed with two separate images on the same paper, creating a layered print which provides a subtle depth that does not appear easy to find with a normal one-pass.
The other monotype is a loose portrait of the newest family member in fellow blogger Toni Tiller’s life.

Tom Bennett

Work in Progress: Tone

WIP: Wiltonian in Progress, oil on board, 24″ x 24″

Indian Summer

Indian Summer, monotype, 20′ x 16″

Lala

Lala, monotype, 16″ x 20″

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Like Any of My Shit is that Important: Matisse, Monotypes and Moma

Posted in Art, art on paper, collection, current events, events, exhibits, figurative, homage, mixed media, MOMA, monotype, museum, nude, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , , on August 12, 2010 by Tom Bennett

I ran over to MOMA ( the Museum of Modern Art, for all those neophytes) the other night and zipped right in with a membership card through the thousands of tourists and what seems like -every friday night at MOMA- a holiday weekend at JFK. I visited a great show from their Contemporary collection, and a mind-blowingly large retrospective of Henri Matisse. Among the intense range of his paintings and drawings from his years in Paris, Morocco and Nice were some monotypes which he obsessively did for several months in 1914. He made 70 that year, 10% of his lifetime total. The simple, rich, heavy, flat yet deep black with contours drawn to reveal stark white lines against said black were powerfully elegant.

I came home and played around with the black that I had drifted away from. Here is a figure I made using tools like a screwdriver, pencil, knife and razor blade. I’m also including a related but tonally very different image, one from a series made with india ink, pencil and letraset ink on paper.

neverland 2
Neverland 2, 2008,monotype, 14″ x 10″

neverland
Neverland 1, 2008, mixed media, ink, pencil, 11″ x 8″

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