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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 Bennett

To 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.

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Rex and Rabbit 1, monotype, 16″ x20″

Rex and Rabbit 2, monotype, 16″ x 20″

Represent.

Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, gesture, gesture drawing, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, contour drawing, Drawing, figure, gesture drawing, life drawing, sketch, subway drawing, Tom Bennett on March 31, 2011 by Tom Bennett

From the NYC subway, yet again.

T.B.

sub 3-30 d

sub 3-30 a

sub 3-30 c

sub 3-30 b

Grind

Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, Drawing, gesture, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, Drawing, figure, gesture, life drawing, subway, Tom Bennett on July 7, 2010 by Tom Bennett

Due to the grind of a daily schedule, I haven’t been able to create new work over the last couple of weeks outside of sketchbook drawing. These folks feel the grind as well.

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Lucky

Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, gesture, geture drawing, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, Drawing, gesture, ink, life drawing, subconscious, subway, Tom Bennett on March 4, 2010 by Tom Bennett

I sometimes wonder what place my semi-dispassionate nature and the circumstances of my life have in the creation of my art. I had been lucky enough to have been born into a stable family with loads of support and, outside of the average run-of-the mill crisis, I haven’t spent a lot of time in an emotionally perilous state. No such stridently awful moments in adolescence that would see me trying to purge my demons as an adult, and so my psychological state has been in balance. How does this play out in my art-making? I do know that there is a lot of subconscious murk buried deep inside, I just don’t spend enough time consciously examining it; I make paintings instead. I’m thinking about this because I’ve known so my artists in my life who have struggled with psychological or emotional pain – real, imagined and self-inflicted, and I ask myself how this informs the art. Does it make that art more emotionally and intellectually valid than mine?

Oh christ, I apologize if this commentary is coming off a bit adolescent. Hey, I’m 10.

Oooookay… anyhoo, posted here are some drawings from the subway and one drawing I pulled out of my a– eh, my subconscious.

Subway, 3/01/10-A, pen and ink and benzyl

Subway, 3/02/10-A, pen and ink and benzl

Subway, 3/02/10-B, pen and ink, benzyl ink

Subconscious Image of a Figure, pencil, india ink, benzyl ink

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Dad Partied with Joe Cocker

Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, gesture, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, Baltimore, Drawing, figure, harry bennett, Joe cocker, life drawing, MD, sketch, Tom Bennett, Towson, woodstock on September 2, 2009 by Tom Bennett

When the storm came in at Woodstock. Anyway, I spent time this week down in old Baltimore with the rents and did some drawing with Harry. His concentration tightens and his energy accelerates when he draws, which doesn’t happen as much as it should, as far as I’m concerned. Here are Harry’s drawings: