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monster painting

Posted in Art, Daniel Allyn Lee, Painting with tags , , , , , on May 2, 2011 by Daniel Allyn Lee

This is one of the pieces I did for the Meth & Hot Dogs 2 show at Lift designer toys and gallery in Royal Oak, Michigan, which is near Detroit. It opened on Saturday and from the photos it looks like a great show with a fun opening.
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Form a Line Please, 11″ x 30″, 2011

This is a little more straight forward then I plan on working on in the immediate future, but I like it. I just bought a bunch of canvas and stretchers, and after a craft fair coming up in may I plan on concentrating on painting more. Til then, its sew, sew, sew, monsters, monsters, monsters, with maybe a little sketching in between.

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monster pattern

Posted in Daniel Allyn Lee, design, Drawing, Illustration, Textile with tags , , , , on March 21, 2011 by Daniel Allyn Lee

Here’s another fabric pattern I was messing around with. I don’t know about the plaid in the background, but that can be easily changed out. I might try polka-dots instead.
monster pattern

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Test Pattern

Posted in craft, Daniel Allyn Lee, design, digital, Illustration with tags , , , , on March 14, 2011 by Daniel Allyn Lee

I managed to get this group of monsters to wrap around after fiddling with them forever on the computer. I’ve wanted to try this for a while to get some fabric printed with my characters in the pattern. The pattern doesn’t match exactly, but close enough. I’ll probably just have a swatch printed with this exact pattern. I’ve had some fabric printed with monster faces before, that I made into dolls, but not an original drawn pattern. I’ll have to experiment more with.
test pattern

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M & M Peanut in a Tea Cup, or Blindfold Painting Helps your Organs

Posted in Art, comic, Illustration, Painting, performance, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , , on March 10, 2011 by Tom Bennett

All I have is this representation of how I feel with or without coffee.

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This may be a solution:

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moonman

Posted in Art, Daniel Allyn Lee, digital, Drawing with tags , , , , , on November 15, 2010 by Daniel Allyn Lee

I decided to try to employ some of my digital collage techniques to an illustration. I should have done this before. I think it turned out pretty nice. Definitely, something I will explore and play with.
moonman Moonman, 8 1/2″ x 14″, digitally altered ink drawing, 2010

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a study

Posted in Art, Daniel Allyn Lee, Painting with tags , , , , , on November 1, 2010 by Daniel Allyn Lee

Hi, I haven’t been around for a while. I had a show in Ohio last month and got really busy at the end of September. I got waaaay behind on my daily drawings and just didn’t have anything to share. It was a kind of nice have a break from art for a while.

I’m so over being conflicted about art vs. illustration vs. craft. I still want to make art, but I worry the kind of art I want to make won’t be taken seriously. I guess, its a silly thing to worry about. Anyway, I’m getting caught up on the Daily drawing project, but I’ll pry mostly keep that on my other blog. I do plan on doing other stuff, like a series of studies for larger paintings.
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I’m just playing around with color and layering images right now.

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Nude study. (and a blog post about Harry)

Posted in Art, art on paper, figurative, gesture, Harry Bennett, Illustration, nude, oil painting, Painting, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , , , on October 28, 2010 by Tom Bennett

A mixed media study:

10/27/10 nude
ink, graphite, gouache on paper, 10 x 14

….and more stuff about my dad. He deserves it. A fine and fun blog out of England called Existential Ennui(<click in the hyperlink) pays tribute to him and his paperback book art. The blogger, Louis XlV, even mentions our blog.
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The Man with a Getaway Face, 1963, Pocket Books division of Simon and Schuster

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warriors

Posted in Art, Daniel Allyn Lee, digital, Drawing, Illustration with tags , , , , on August 23, 2010 by Daniel Allyn Lee

This week, for my daily drawings I’ve been concentrating on people instead of monsters. I’ll pry continue this theme next week too, although, I need to practice my perspective drawing.  I’ve also been thinking about trying some paintings were I use my own drawings as I would a found image. I made these two digital colored drawings as kind of a sketch; one being a straight forward approach to color and the second a more arbitrary abstract approach.
I like the arbitrary one a lot and I would like to explore the idea in paint, as soon as I have time.
warrior warrior 2
Warrior & Warrior 2, ink on paper 8 1/2″ x 11″ scanned and colored on paintshop pro

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guilty/innocent

Posted in Art, Daniel Allyn Lee, digital, Drawing, Illustration with tags , , , on August 16, 2010 by Daniel Allyn Lee

Not much to say this week, just trying to keep it weird, make some drawings. I’d like to try doing some daily paintings but I’m not sure how I’d do that and make a bunch of plush toys too. I’ll see if I can work it out.
guilty/innocent
guilty/innocent, ink on paper, scanned, colored and altered with paintshop pro

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trying it weird

Posted in Art, Daniel Allyn Lee, digital, Drawing, Illustration with tags , , on August 9, 2010 by Daniel Allyn Lee

This week, I started to concentrate on embracing my weird a bit more. I think, I need to stop editing my ideas, trying so hard to be cute, funny or clever. Maybe its not a perceivable difference to anyone but me, but I’m really digging it and will probably continue for a while.
trying it weird

trying it weird, ink on paper

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mons

Posted in Art, Daniel Allyn Lee, Drawing, Illustration with tags , , , on August 2, 2010 by Daniel Allyn Lee

I’m working on about five new paintings for a small show in Ohio this October. These are a couple sketches for them. I wanted to do a few small grouping of monster and them a couple of the paintings will have large crowds of them. All of which will be surrounded by plush monsters on the wall.
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I’ll post some of the actual paintings when they are finished.

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falling

Posted in Art, Daniel Allyn Lee, Illustration with tags , , on July 26, 2010 by Daniel Allyn Lee

This is more of a doodle-y drawing, blue ink pen on paper. I liked how it turned out. I’d love to do more of these, the same size drawing just on a much larger canvas; might be fun.
falling

falling, 9″ x 12″ ink on paper

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More Dreams: Monotype Studies

Posted in Art, contingent art, Illustration, monotype, printmaking, Tom Bennett, Work in Progress, work on paper with tags , , , , , on July 15, 2010 by Tom Bennett

Here is a finished monotype and some unresolved studies illustrating chosen dreams of  Toni Tiller’s.
The medium allows for quick studies to be worked and reworked on the plexiglass matrix, so that experimentation is always an easy and disposable exercise. The first I’m happy with, the rest are problematic and I’m posting them as WIPS of a sort. I’m using rags, a steel comb and razor blades as some of my tools here.

Click on the link after each title to read the corresponding dream.

Dream of a Tail

A Tail Like a Cat, monotype, 9″ x 12″
Dream from 7/02/10)

dream study/floating to the surface

Dream study/ Floating to the Surface, monotype, 18″ x 14″
Dream from 6/12/10

The above has a number of issues. its too busy and the figures seem to be a bit static, for starters.

dream study/storm

Dream study/ Storm, monotype, 18″ x 14″
Dream from 7/11/10
This is clumsy to me, and I’m not happy with the design, nor the drawing.

dream study/eating mice

Dream study/ Eating Mice, monotype, 9″ x 12″
Dream from 5/31/10
I had designed this to be viewed vertically, but the issues I have with the mouth and general drawing pushed me to present it horizontally. The composition is more dynamic and the tension works. I don’t think know if it represents the tone of the dream right, though.

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flower

Posted in Art, Daniel Allyn Lee, Illustration with tags , , , , on July 12, 2010 by Daniel Allyn Lee

This is actually the first drawing I did for this daily drawing project that I started last week, but I just got around to inking it the other day. I ordered some new pens and I think they are helping me remember to vary my line weight.
flower
(after the jump-more from last week and my illustration Friday drawing.)
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drawing a day

Posted in Art, Daniel Allyn Lee, Drawing, Illustration with tags , , , on July 5, 2010 by Daniel Allyn Lee

In an effort to become better at illustration I’ve decided to commit to making at least one drawing a day for the next year or more. If I get stuck on what to draw, I’ll randomly select a word from the dictionary.  I plan on posting my favorite drawing once a week online.
for this drawing the word was ‘eleventh’.
eleventh

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Rough Dream Studies

Posted in Art, art on paper, contingent art, figurative, Illustration, monotype, picture book art, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , on June 18, 2010 by Tom Bennett

Toni Tiller has been documenting her dreams in a well written blog . She’s agreed to allow me to attempt a series of interpretations of some chosen narratives. Here are some preliminary monotype studies. I’ll keep you updated.
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dream 1

dream study 1

dream study 2

dream study 3

dream study 4

dream study 5

dream study 6
© 2010 Tom Bennett

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dance party

Posted in Art, art on paper, Collage, Daniel Allyn Lee, Illustration, Painting, work on paper with tags , , , on June 14, 2010 by Daniel Allyn Lee

Well, I did my first craft show last weekend. It was fun but it rained a lot and I didn’t sell as much as I’d hoped. This last week I’ve been doing a little relaxing, organizing stuff, taking pictures and listing it on etsy and putting together some shipments to a couple of consignment shops. Now, I want to make some art and try and write a story book.

Anyway, here is something I started a while back with plans on finishing for the show but instead I finally got to today.

monster dance party in yellow
Monster Dance Party in Yellow, collage and acrylic on paper,13 x 17 1/2, 2010

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hipster monster

Posted in Art, Daniel Allyn Lee, digital, Illustration with tags , , , on May 10, 2010 by Daniel Allyn Lee

hipster monster

Hipster Monster, 8″x10″, digitally colored pen and ink

I’m still working hard on stuff for the upcoming craft show, I’ll have a booth at. This is just a fun lil sketch I decided to play around with in the computer. I’m hoping to concentrate a bit more on drawing and writing after this show next month.

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Horror Ad

Posted in Art, Drawing, Illustration, Miscellaneous, Tom Bennett with tags , , , , on April 29, 2010 by Tom Bennett

I didn’t have the time nor the energy to shoot any thing new this week so I came across this old storyboard, with only the title “Mask” as identification, I did for an ad agency called West and Vaughan. This was done with pencil and marker, and is from like 10 years ago. I can’t remember what the product was but it reads like a disturbing hybrid of Hitchcock and Ricky Gervais. I’m having second thoughts about using homemade face masks made from avocado. Here are a few frames, not in any continuity.

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card

Posted in Art, craft, Daniel Allyn Lee, design, digital, Drawing with tags , , on April 19, 2010 by Daniel Allyn Lee

monster card
I just ordered some post cards of this and another design. This one is three different sketches mashed together and colored on the computer.
I’m doing a craft show in the beginning of June. Its my first one; I figured I’d try one out and,  see how I do and if I like it. Anyway, I’ll pry sell little sets of postcards plus, I plan to stick them in the bags instead of a business cards.
I’m already freaking out about not having enough time to get everything I want to do done. I plan to make a few collage/paintings between now and then, but mostly I will be sewing my face off.

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