Last weeks request for penises (thanks for nothing people) got me thinking about images of men in general, and it kind of gave me a much needed little creative boost. I don’t have time at the moment to do anything about it so I am going into the archives to find a launch point for where I hope to go next.
Sarah-Jane Lynagh’s photographs incorporate some of my favorite elements, drama, portraiture, and occasionally dead things. Click on the chicken and have a look.
I’ve been invited to participate in a small show of printmakers in a gallery out in Oregon, where my father is well known and loved. So I’m making more images of him to be possibly included. Here’s another stab at the old prince, fresh off the press. The paint and ink is still wetter than an otter in the Saugatuck Reservoir.
Oil paint, etching ink, lithography ink, turpentine, pencil, razor, knife, rag, et al on rives bfk.
Tom Bennett
Portrait of Harry Bennett, Sr. 2009, monotype, 12″ x 18″
From the twentieth century archives, in a private collection deep in the chesapeake bay, my favorite neice, Eve. She was but 8 years old then. She now slays them at all the best Johns Hopkins sorority bashes.
Tom Bennett
Eve, oil on canvas, 24 x 30
We’ve seen the photographic portrait-a-day sites (I linked one I liked a few weeks ago) and the painting-a-day sites, and here the two happily meet. Send Me Your Head takes the photos of people’s heads and depicts one a day (maybe) in paint, with the added bonus of what music and literature accompanied the artist while painting. I like the simplicity and polaroid feel they have and am enjoying them immensely, so have sent in my own head for consideration, if you would like to then you can email the artist at kschmidt@sendmeyourhead.com. Here’s a few of my favorites.
I made a monotype for my father on his 90th birthday celebration.
Tom Bennett
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.
- Mark Rothko
Harry, 2009, monotype, 18 x 12
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Because I will put on your clothes, pretend I am you, then take a picture and put it on the internet.
My father, Harry Bennett, has been an illustrator and a painter all his life. Over the last year and half he has experienced some physical, neurological and life-style upheavals and he had stopped painting or even drawing. I have been spending more time with him in the last few months and I am trying to coax him back to drawing on a more regular basis. The other day we spent some time doing gesture drawings and blind contours of each other. He was so energized and he loved it.
These are some of his drawings of me. ink on paper:
And a couple of mine:
And now everybody get on the Hope Train! Here we’re looking at the art looking forward to the Obama administration.
“Obama Plush” by Bisbee Stitches
To me this is the perfect place to start because America does have a particularly warm and fuzzy feeling towards President Obama, like he’s simultaneously our security blanket and teddy bear (so named after Theodore Roosevelt). With everything coming apart at the hinges, I hope it’s all justified, but for today I’m satisfied to bask in the plush goodness. Read more »
This week I’m posting a monotype that was requested as a gift, below; and another in a series of interpretations of allegorical paintings, this time the baroque “Neptune and Venus”, by Tiepolo.
Tiller, monotype, 18′ x 12″
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Neptune and Venus (after Tiepolo), monotype 18″ x 12″
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