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, 2003-2011, oil paint over oil based monotype on paper, 24″ x 18″
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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 abstract, Art, figure, monotype, nude, oil on paper, oil over monotype, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett on December 15, 2011 by Tom BennettOil 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 abstract, Art, expressionist figure painting, figurative painting, figure, mixed media, monotype, nude, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett on November 24, 2011 by Tom BennettHappy Thanksgiving.
Age Before Beauty, 1993-2011, oil study into monotype on paper. 20″ x 16″
Hedy
Posted in Art, art on paper, figurative, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, expressionist nude, figure, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil over monotype, oil painting, Painting, paper, Tom Bennett on November 17, 2011 by Tom BennettLeafing through the archives of not-quite successful prints, I came across a good candidate. I didn’t document it in its original stage, as I haven’t really done for most of the pieces in this series, but suppose I should. I will, however, search for a slide of it, which I am almost positive I have catalogued somewhere in the cave I call my studio.
I’m not isolating the printmaking paper with hide glue or gesso or anything. It should last at least until a meteor hits the earth, destroying civilization as we know it.
Hedwigs’s Spread Spectrum, oil over monotype on paper, 20″ x 16″
Anachronism
Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, figurative, monotype, nude, oil painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, figure, mixed media, monotype, nude, NYC, oil paint on monotype, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett on November 3, 2011 by Tom BennettI’m writing this on the 2 V’s, vicodin and vodka, as I try to recover from a kick-arse flu.
This is an oil painting on paper.
Anachronism, oil paint over printmaking ink on paper, 20″ x 16″
Submissive
Posted in Art, figurative, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, technique, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, dominant, figure, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil on paper, Painting, printmaking, submissive, Tom Bennett on October 20, 2011 by Tom BennettThis is pending sale, pending on spending.
Submissive, Oil over monotype on printmaking paper, 20″ x 16″
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 exhibit, figurative painting, figure, fundraising event, mixed media, monotype, nude, nude woman, oil on paper, oil painting, Painting, paper, printmaking, Silvermine Arts Center, small paint, Tom Bennett on October 6, 2011 by Tom BennettSilvermine 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
SSD 1, oil on monotype on paper, 6″ x 4″
SSD 2, oil on monotype on paper, 6″ x 4″
SSD 3, oil on monotype on paper, 4″ x 6″
Paint, Print, Paper, Pigeon
Posted in Art, art on paper, figurative, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, figure, monotype, monotype printmaking, nude, oil on monotype, oil on paper, Painting, paper, printmaking, Tom Bennett on September 22, 2011 by Tom BennettI’m continuing the exercise of painting over monotypes and I’m just exploring the application and reaction of the oil on printmaking paper. The paper is a medium to heavy weight Stonehenge brand and absorbs the oil paint and turps relatively quickly; the opposite of the method used in making the monotypes, since with the monos its about oil based paint and ink applied to plexiglass: no tooth nor absorption but simply a resistant glassy surface that the paint glides over. With painting directly on the paper, its about discovering the various lengths of time different paint films and colors tack up and how they interact with paint layers placed over them. I’m allowing and developing loose abstracted form with these early stages. Technically these could be called either paintings or monotypes, but you can call them anything you want. If it’s a four-letter word, I don’t really need to know about it.
Pigeon is old slang for a young woman, back when men were men and misogynist was a 10-letter word.
T.B.
Old Ruling Class Revise, oil on monotype on paper, 20″ x 16″
The original monotype:
there are many formal aspects of the print that I really like and have been changed and obliterated. Ah well. You must destroy to create to destroy again.
Tastes like Chicken
Posted in Art, art on paper, figurative, monotype, nude, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, cape cod, chicken, hunger, monotype, monotype printmaking, printmaking, Tom Bennett on September 15, 2011 by Tom BennettI’m in Cape Cod this week and kind of stuck without proper art-making materials as I work fixing up a beach shack. I’m lying here while a chicken is cooking in the kitchen and the smells waft into my flared nostrils. I’m hungry and you’ll just have to deal with this older monotype from the pompously named “archives”.
Tastes Like Chicken (formally titled Untitled Figure #2), monotype, 14″ x 9″
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 abstract, Art, figure, Frank Auerbach, monotype, oil paint on monotype, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett on September 8, 2011 by Tom BennettAnother 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, 1993-2011, oil paint on monotype on paper, 24″ x18″
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 abstract, Art, art on paper, boxing, figure, male nude, monotype, oil on paper, oil painting, Painting, paper, printmaking, Tom Bennett on September 1, 2011 by Tom BennettI’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, oil paint on monotype on paper, 1992-2011
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 abstract, Art, color sketch, Drawing, Painting, sculpture, study, Tom Bennett on August 25, 2011 by Tom BennettOne 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, mixed media on paper, 12″ x 9″
Signoria, mixed media, 12″ x 9″
Barcelona Neptune, 1986, oil on canvas, 48″ x 36″
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 Art, figure, insomnia, oil on paper, oil paint on monotype, Painting, paper, printmaking, Tom Bennett on August 4, 2011 by Tom BennettLate 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″
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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
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 BennettAnother 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″
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 BennettThat 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″
Sketch of a Nude
Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, mixed media, nude, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, Drawing, figure, landscape, mixed media, nude, paper, Tom Bennett on June 23, 2011 by Tom Bennettanother pencil/ink/mixed media sketch
Nude as Landfill 2, mixed media on paper 8″ x 10″
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 BennettI’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
An Ex-Soldier and Painting
Posted in abstract, Art, figurative, Harry Bennett, homage, nude, oil painting, Painting, plein air, Tom Bennett with tags abstract, Art, figure, harry bennett, homage, landscape, memorial day, Painting, plein air, Tom Bennett, Towson, world war 2 on June 2, 2011 by Tom BennettI’m spending a week care-taking my parents. My father Harry painted through memorial day weekend.
Harry was a reconnaissance officer in the south pacific throughout World War 2. Rarely talks about it nor his bronze star medal for bravery. He is a very special man.
His painting above. oil on board, 16″ x 20″ He may still want to tweak it a little. I think he should call it Memorial Day.
Mom and Dad.
I realized how much I miss talking painting with him and his thoughtful insight. He took a look at a painting I started months ago and gave me some valuable input on design and rhythm.
This is it:
Daughters (revise) oil on glue gesso board, 20″ x 26″
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 BennettTo 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″
Work in Progress Painting
Posted in Art, figurative, nude, oil painting, Painting, Tom Bennett with tags dante divine comedy, figure, harry bennett, heavy nude, nude, oil on panel, oil painting, Painting, Tom Bennett, Work in Progress on May 12, 2011 by Tom BennettWork in progress, another in the series “Old Ruling Class”.
The support is a cradled masonite board treated with a white clay ground, which produces a nice balanced surface that is both a resist and absorbing platform which allows me to do reductive mark-making with tools such as a razor blade, which is a technique my father, Harry, used to great effect in a number of projects such as his Divine Comedy series.
Harry celebrates his 92nd birthday this weekend. Happy Birthday, Dad!
Old ruling Class 5, wip
oil on board, 24″ x18″
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