this is an example of the prints I’ve been playing with. the handcrafted experience as opposed to photography seems to resonate these days. all play in the studio is good! (this post is being written on an iphone…. ahhhh technological gadgetry)
Archive for monotype
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Posted in laelia e. mitchell, monotype, printmaking with tags Art, laelia e. mitchell, monotype on November 28, 2011 by laelia e. mitchellOil 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″
Purgatory Can be a Happy Medium
Posted in Art, art on paper, Painting, Tom Bennett with tags Art, figure, monotype, nude, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett on September 29, 2011 by Tom BennettThis was an very old, unresolved monotype I’m painting back into and as it’s developed, I realized that a bit of my father’s design sensibility had creeped in; the Dante series to be specific. I’m not quite sure about the lower portion with abstracted stalagmite ink streaks. I wanted to have an area to strike a tense balance down there. What do you think?
A Bow to Purgatory, oil over monotype on Rives BFK paper, 24″ x 18″
detail
Below is a painting on monotype from last week.
The queen in the Afternoon, oil on monotype on paper, 20″ x 16″
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
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″
Sea Creature
Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, figurative, gesture, landscape, monotype, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, bay, cape cod, figure, low tide, monotype, printmaking, sea creature, seascape, Tom Bennett on June 9, 2011 by Tom BennettIt’s the beginning of what many climatologists say is a long period of climate change and hot summers in this hemisphere. Its hot here in New York and I wearily prepare for the heavy clammy dampness and the heat and the high electrical bills. So this image is a mild counteractive to that. I am thinking of Cape Cod Bay and its temperate tone , yet the warm yellow may mitigate even this attempt at the cool.
Tom
Pilgrimage, 2011, monotype, 16″ x 20″
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″
Commitment and Non-Commitment
Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, figurative, monotype, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, figure, monotype, monotype printmaking, nude, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett on April 28, 2011 by Tom BennettTwo recent monotypes and a painting. The painting is in a stage of quasi-resolution in a process.
Tom Bennett
Spring 2, 2011, monotype, 16″ x 20″
Spring 1, 2011, monotype, 16″ x20″
Non-Committal, 2011, oil on panel, 18″ x24″
The Old Ruling Class 4 and Art of the Northeast
Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, events, exhibits, figurative, homage, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags art exhibits, Art of the Northeast, exhibit, monotype, nude, Painting, printmaking, Silvermine Guild, Tom Bennett on April 14, 2011 by Tom BennettI haven’t been in my printshop in weeks so when I found myself with some time the other night I crawled into my basement, where the etching press is located and made some images. I used some lower grade oil paint along with the professional grade inks and came up with an almost realized print. When it was dry I went back into it with oil sticks. I’m placing it into the series of nudes I started a couple of months ago.
The Old Ruling Class 4, monotype, 20″ x16″
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Art of The Northeast
The annual regional survey “Art of the Northeast”, representing artists from New England, New York and New Jersey, is up again at The Silvermine Arts Center in New Canaan, CT. http://www.silvermineart.org/about-silvermine/directions.cfm
I have this painting in the show. It’s a take on Caravaggio’s The Crucifixion of St. Peter.
The juror this year is Tom Eccles, Executive director, Bard College, Curatorial Studies Program.
The opening is this Saturday, 4PM to 7PM
Pete’s Going Away, 2011, oil on panel, 40″ x 30″
In the Pines
Posted in Art, art on paper, contingent art, figurative, monotype, narrative art, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, bluegrass, figure, lead belly, monotype, music, narrative art, printmaking, Tom Bennett on February 17, 2011 by Tom BennettI was listening the other night to the classic old folk song “In the Pines”, or “Black Girl” sung by the blues great Lead Belly. Here are 3 monotypes that were influenced by it.
Listen to the audio I posted at the bottom, its beautiful.
9″ x 12″
12″ x 9″
12″ x 9″
W.I.P. #2 And White Square Project
Posted in Art, digital, Links, monotype, printmaking, Toni Tiller with tags Art, landscape, Links, monotype, printmaking, Toni Tiller, tumblr on February 9, 2011 by Toni TillerI am working the same source image as last week and am about half way through this one, two runs through the press so far, and at least one more to go. I have realized recently that one of the real benefits in using fabric is that it can be soaked and re-soaked as many times needed without breaking down, an option paper doesn’t offer. What I am learning is that because fabric is more selective about what ink it wants to grab multiple printings gives me an opportunity to build values slowly and gives me more decision making options. So far I like where this one is going, hopefully I won’t fuck it up.
In other news I was contacted the other day by the friendly people over at The White Square Project, a fun participatory Tumblr blog. Every two weeks they give people a new theme and a 250 x 250 pixel square to fill. The current theme is color, and this was my contribution*:
I chose a digital piece, but they accept all mediums, so come on over and play!
*confession – I wish i knew how to quilt like JD because I would totally quilt the hell out of this pattern.
Monotypes: Dream Series Redux
Posted in Art, art on paper, monotype, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, art on paper, diamonds, dreams, monotype, printmaking, prints, Tom Bennett, whales on February 3, 2011 by Tom BennettThis week I have some more interpretive monotypes based on dreams of blogger Toni Tiller. I have included two variations of a dream that involves reform and retribution. In Toni’s words: “I got away with murder once, so I thought I could do it again, turns out it was only beginners luck. I paid my debt to society and was released into the sea, instantly transformed into a whale, enormous and weightless. It was only in moments of exhilaration when I leapt above the surface was I reminded of the heaviness of truth, and came crashing back down.” The other print is based on her succinct narrative: “spitting up diamonds.”
Whale Dream 1, monotype, 16″ x 20″
Whale dream 2, monotype, 16″ x 20″
Spitting Diamonds, monotype, 16″ x 20″
W.I.P. It Wednesday
Posted in Art, landscape, monotype, Toni Tiller with tags Art, landscape, monotype, printmaking, Toni Tiller, winter on February 2, 2011 by Toni TillerThis is the second in an attempt at working from images of winter donated by artist Molly Sanger Carpenter. This is my first pass at it, and while I am not in love, I do see where I might want to make some adjustments and take it next. The plan had been to make a few attempts at this in a row, but the weather conspired against me by forcing me into shoveling heaps and heaps of snow cut into art making time, at least it got me in a wintery mood though.
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Toni Tiller
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