Last week I posted a WIP and this week I post the finish, which isn’t much different. I made a few tweaks here and there; I took a more accurate photo. Tell me what you think.
Pheromoning, oil on canvas, 36″ x 62″
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The Final Pheromone
Posted in abstract, abstract expressionism, Art, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, nude, oil painting, Painting, Tom Bennett with tags abstract, Art, expressionist figure, expressionist nude, figure, nude, oil painting, Painting, pheromones, Tom Bennett on May 17, 2012 by Tom BennettPheromoning
Posted in abstract, Art, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, nude, oil painting, Tom Bennett, Work in Progress with tags abstract, Art, expressionist, expressionist nude, figure, nude, oil on canvas, oil painting, Painting, Tom Bennett on May 10, 2012 by Tom BennettNothing finished right now, so here’s a working experiment on canvas. oil on linen, 36″ x 62″. It’s about finding the right rhythms with this.
Titanic
Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, monotype, nude, oil painting, printmaking, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, expressionist nude, figure, heavy nude, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett on May 3, 2012 by Tom Bennettsmall painting on paper.
In the Hold, oil painting into monotype, 20′ x 16″
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Posted in Art, art on paper, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, expressionist nude, figure, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil into monotype, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett on April 26, 2012 by Tom Bennett The title is a reference to the non-committal online connections that pass for friendship bonds today. The whole concept is silly and sad. That said, please don’t un-follow me or I’ll cut my ear off.
With the paint into monotype I’m continuing to explore a guarded, nuanced and neutral palette with some higher hues thrown in. Here the cool grays got too blue and of course the yellow blares out a bit. The figure may have pronounced itself rather more than was intended, but I’m ok with it.
Unfollow, 2008-2012, oil into monotype on paper, 18″ x 12″
Basketball and Sex
Posted in Art, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, Tom Bennett, Work in Progress, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, basketball, expressionist nude, figure, jeremy lin, monotype, new york knicks, nude, oil painting, Painting, paper, printmaking, Tom Bennett, wip on April 19, 2012 by Tom BennettJeremy Lin is the the cinderella story of the NBA this season. He was a no-one who came out of Harvard and was on the bench for the New York Knicks when he was chosen to come on the court where he went on an electric run to rejuvenate the team. I had made a couple of monotypes dedicated to him but both were unsuccessful, poorly formulated attempts. Here I took one of these flat prints and I’ve begun the process of reforming a composition with a slightly sexualized nude, utilizing bits and pieces of the underlying marks and forms. It is only fitting, I think, to honor this injured basketball player, who has had surgery on his leg and will be out the rest of the season. Baseball and sex are the usual analogies, but I’m throwing up a three pointer and lets see if it misses. This is a work in progress.
Lonely Girl, First Stage
Posted in Art, art on paper, expressionist, figurative, monotype, nude, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, expressionist figure, expressionist nude, figure, lonely, monotype, nude, paper, printmaking, Tom Bennett on April 12, 2012 by Tom BennettUgh, been working nonstop for the man. The marketing man who thinks what he does is art, is rock & roll. It ain’t. I squeezed out a monotype the other night and I’ll be slathering paint onto the this soon. Keep you up dated.
Lonely Girl, monotype on rives BFK, 16″ x 20″
Cluster Fluck
Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, current events, events, exhibits, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, Toni Tiller, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, expressionist nude, figure, Hennessy Youngman, itsa small small world, J. D. Hastings, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil on monotype, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, Toni Tiller on April 5, 2012 by Tom BennettYesterday Toni Tiller posted about the show Its a Small, Small World, also called Cluster Fluck, an open show at Family Business, a 10′ x 12′ foot space curated by a very funny Hennessy Youngman. Entertaining art happening. There may have been maybe 100 artists represented; here’s the little piece I had in it. It was in a good spot. On the other hand, when you’re talking about 120 square feet, any spot is a good spot.
Drunken Silenus, ink and graphite on paper, 11 x 8
Below is a recent Monotype reworked with oil.
April, oil paint into monotype on paper, 24″ x 18″
International Collaboration
Posted in abstract, Art, Collage, expressionism, figurative, mixed media, nude, oil painting, Painting, Tom Bennett with tags abstract, Art, collaboration, Collage, mixed media, Painting, Tom Bennett on March 29, 2012 by Tom BennettSometime last year I had a conversation with Jean Christensen, a collage artist whom I’ve befriended through an online art group and who lives and works in France, about the idea of a collaboration. I had pitched the idea to him just because I thought it would be a interesting exercise in managing decision-making within a control-variable situation. I’m a bit of a control freak as I think Jean is, although I believe we’re both generously diplomatic at the same time. But as he has suggested himself, he and I are quite different in our styles, tastes and history.
So he agreed to the idea and sent me a 10″ x 14″ hardwood board he had glued various cut paper to. Images of fish, food, mammals, rocks, etc. I worked oil paint into it and sent it back to France. He added more collaged bits and sent it back where I sat on it for a long, long time. I Had been trying to make it work abstractly but it wasn’t happening so I went in another direction and finished it. I think it works pretty well under the circumstances, formally and somehow as expression.
I suggested to him if we do this again, I’ll start the piece and he finish it. The artist to last work on a collaboration like this has the advantage of final say.
This is a mediocre photograph but I’ve included the first 3 stages of the process as well.
Tom Bennett & Jean Christensen, Collaboration, oil paint, collaged paper, varnish. glue on wood, 10″ x 14″
Below are the first 3 stages.
stage 1:
Stage 2:
Stage 3:
WIP: Limbs
Posted in abstract, Art, expressionist, figurative, nude, oil painting, Painting, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, expressionist figure painting, expressionist nude, figure, nude, Painting, Tom Bennett, wip on March 22, 2012 by Tom BennettLiving in NY requires money. I have little time to eat or breathe. I suppose I’ll have to learn to live on 4 hours of sleep to give myself enough space to paint and do my laundry. What ends up happening is I’m left with beginning projects that require blocks of time to conceptualize, think, sit and allow to grow. I don’t have those blocks. This is another piece that may very well ferment like so many others have over the past few months.
WIP: Limbs, oil on canvas, 31″ x 46″
I Like Cake
Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, cake, expressionist nude, figure, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, paper, printmaking, sex, sweets, Tom Bennett on March 15, 2012 by Tom BennettI admit it. I’m a sweet junkie. I was brought up in an old school household with an Irish Catholic mother with a thing for chocolate and just about every other great sugar treat. Her mother had ancient recipes for a slew of desserts from fried donuts to tollhouse cookies, to brownies you want to shoot up in your veins. The tradition made it to my oldest sister Debbie, who had a passion for baking pies and cookies and cakes while I would assist, at the age of 5, by licking the mixing bowl of uncooked batter and butter frosting. Invariably it would be pasted all over my face and dungarees. Jeans were called that back in the 18th century.
I buy a chocolate cake and tell myself I’m ok with my high cholesterol and I store it in what I pretend are places my girlfriend can’t find and of course she finds it. It’s right there on the top shelf of the fridge or in the bread box with an electric arrow pointing at it. Cake is love. It’s sensual. So is sex. Therefore, cake is sex.
eat it.
Tom Bennett
Perfectly Good Cake, oil over monotype on paper, 18″ x 14″
Nude as Land Mass
Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, gesture drawing, mixed media, nude, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, Drawing, figure, mixed media, nude, Painting, Tom Bennett, work on paper on March 8, 2012 by Tom BennettMy 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
WIPWIPWIPWIPWIPWIPWIP
Posted in 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 Art, expressionist nude, figure, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, wip, Work in Progress on March 1, 2012 by Tom BennettUnfinished study oil over monotype on paper, 14″ x 20″
WIP
Posted in abstract, Art, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, Work in Progress, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, expressionist nude, figure, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, paper, printmaking, Tom Bennett, wip, Work in Progress on February 23, 2012 by Tom BennettThis is a bad photo of a work in progress. I’m going south for a couple of days.
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WIP, oil into monotype on paper, 18″ x 24″
Nod to Basch
Posted in Art, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, expressionist nude, figure, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil on paper, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett on February 16, 2012 by Tom BennettHere I’m publishing the 1st stage – an original monotype – and the finished overlaid painting. Looking at the two images now I can see what choices I would make differently. The energy of the 1st state has been redirected distinctly.
I’m working on some monotypes dedicated to Jeremy Lin, the phenom of the NY Knicks. I hope to post the results later.
Tom Bennett
Nod to Basch, 1st stage, monotype, 18″ x 28″
Nod to Basch, oil over monotype on paper, 18″ x 28″
The Fat and the Thin in the Corner
Posted in Art, art on paper, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, technique, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, expressionist nude, figure, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, paper, printmaking, Tom Bennett on February 2, 2012 by Tom BennettMore paintings made from monotypes. These two pieces I finished a couple of days ago and I’m of two minds about them. The first, In the Corner, may be a tad too defined in the figure. I’m not sure I’m pushing the abstraction enough. The second painting I’m on the fence about as well. How’s that for mixed metaphor cliches?
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In the Corner, oil over monotype on paper, 28″ x 20″
The Fat and the Thin, oil over monotype on paper, 20″ x 16″
Hidden Defect and Lauren’s Underbelly
Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, technique, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, art on paper, expressionist figure, expressionist nude, figure, mixed media, monotype, nude, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett on January 26, 2012 by Tom BennettTwo more explorations in the current series. The one called Lauren’s Underbelly got its title from the happy little fact that the underpainting/monotype was a portrait of a pregnant woman. She apparently gave birth to this painting. It’s a girl!
Hidden Defect, oil into monotype on paper, 22′ x 16″
Lauren’s Underbelly, oil into monotype on paper, 18″ x 12″
Ectoplasmic Monotype/Painting
Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, technique, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, ectoplasm, expressionist nude, figure, kodak, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil over monotype, Painting, Photography, printmaking, Tom Bennett on January 19, 2012 by Tom BennettThis piece has a photographic feel and Kodak is on its death bed. That’s a sad thought.
Ektachromoplasm, oil over monotype on paper, 20″ x 16″
First Two Stages
Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, Drawing, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, technique, Tom Bennett, Work in Progress, work on paper with tags Art, Drawing, expressionist figure, mixed media, monotype, oil on monotype, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, reworked print, Tom Bennett on January 5, 2012 by Tom BennettPhotos of the first stages of the process I’m exploring with these current reworked monotypes-to-paintings.
The monotype is an ancient relic from the early 90′s. Drawing over the image and reintegrating the underlying forms with the new marks, I then bring in paint of varying viscosities with brush and knife. The recontextualization of form may be overtly reconsidered or more likely metamorphosizes ‘organically’ (for lack of better pompous phrasing). Here much of the original is obliterated yet structurally the new image is recognizably built on form that is now rendered abstract. I’m away from my studio this week and won’t be reworking this until I get back, so this current unresolved stage will have to ferment like a soft wheel of gouda, also known as my head.
Injected Meaning
Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, expressionism, expressionist figure, expressionist nude, figure, monotype, nude, oil on monotype, oil on paper, Painting, paper, printmaking, Tom Bennett on December 29, 2011 by Tom BennettMy apologies for the mediocre photo, I left my equipment in Baltimore over the Christmas holiday and was forced to use my iPhone.
Happy New Year. If you get wasted, hope its a good time.
Tom Bennett
Injected Meaning, monotype reintroduced with oil paint, on Rives BFK paper, 24″ x 18″
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 abstract, Art, expressionist nude, figure, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil over monotype, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett on December 22, 2011 by Tom BennettWhen 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
Nice and Easy, oil on monotype, rives bfk paper, 20″ x 16″
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