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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 abstract, Art, figure, french bulldog, monotype, Painting, portrait, printmaking, Tom Bennett 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.

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

Indian Summer, monotype, 20′ x 16″

Lala, monotype, 16″ x 20″

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No Art, A Dog, And Advice Needed

Posted in Toni Tiller with tags french bulldog, macaroni art, pasta, process, Toni Tiller on September 8, 2010 by Toni Tiller

Whenever I talk about this blog to people I always describe it as mostly a process based blog, where we all spend time talking about how and why we do things, as well as posting the end results, for better or worse. Once in awhile part of the process seems to be producing, well, nothing.

I could have gone into the archives for something to post, but instead I’m just going to be honest and say I just didn’t have time this week. There have been summer flu’s to indulge, guests to entertain, and in the biggest news of my week, a new member to the family. Everyone, meet LaLa, my new French Bulldog.

She’s been pretty much dominating my week with getting adjusted and doing that house training stuff (very important business). Don’t worry, I’m not going to lose my mind and start posting a thousand pictures of my dog in lieu of art, just this one, to introduce her and say hello.

Moving on, I have a small quandary. I got into an art swap situation with a twitter friend where we challenged each other to use certain materials. In this case he ended up with glitter and I took macaroni, which at first I thought I would do something sculptural with, but now I am not so sure. I started wondering if it would be possible to cook the pasta, pulp it down in the food processor, and roll it out into sheets that I could then dehydrate in the oven and either print or paint on. Does anyone have any experience with this? Do I need to add some sort of other binder? Should I just think of something else? Feel free to throw out ideas because I am a little stumped.

Naturally, in keeping with our process based theme, whatever I decide to go forward with I will document and show the results of.

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I am NOT A DOG PERSON!!!

Posted in Miscellaneous, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags cheer up, cute, french bulldog, funny, puppy, video on April 24, 2010 by ssstephg

I’m actually a crazy cat lady, but if there were a place where you could drop a buck or two to rent a french bulldog puppy for an hour or so, I’d be broke. You’ve probably seen that video of the squishtasticly adorable french bulldog on it’s back rolling side to side over and over again in a futile attempt to right itself. (No?! OK, I’ll post that, too at the end.) But have you seen the one of the tiny new pup with the squooshy frog butt trying to threaten a confused cat? Or the one of the plush little porker lying on his back fast asleep like a cute drunken troll? Well, other than gessoing a couple of panels, I haven’t done anything in the studio this week so this is what you get. Watching silly videos and doing yardwork in the sunshine is how I’ve kept my spirits up. We just lost one of our long time feline friends to old age so I’ve been a little down. Right well, looklooklook! Every time I watch these I giggle.

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