Ben Toupein


Evan & The Brave
June 1, 2011, 11:33 am
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A good mate of mine asked me to do the poster for his latest gig. The idea for the logo was something I was thinking about doing for a while.

Was good fun to draw.

Check out their site –  they are really good.

http://evanandthebrave.tumblr.com/



Without Walls
January 4, 2011, 1:12 pm
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Had a great time getting involved in the latest Without Walls show.

Was at Ambush Gallery in Waterloo a couple of weeks ago with some really good artists getting involved.

Check out their site here http://with-out-walls.com/

Everyone designed a T-Shirt to sell and also put some works up on the wall.

For the first time I had a go at building my own frames. It turned out pretty good.

Click the pictures to make them a bit bigger.



Saturday In The Slips. Dropped Catch.
August 30, 2010, 6:07 am
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Heres’s my entry for the Cricket Art Prize.

Trying to capture some of what it felt like to sit in the slips for hours and hours on a Saturday afternoon.

The tiredness. The pasty-white sunscreen mixed with the bright red sun burn. The annoyance as a terrible batter hangs around after a catch gets put down.

Wanting to get home so you could meet everyone later at the pub.

Done with pencil, paint and charcoal.

Click on them to see them a bit bigger.



Doughboy Pizza
July 10, 2010, 2:49 pm
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Here is my entry for the Doughboy Pizza comp.

It started with the shape of a pizza in the bottom section and it went from there.

Click them to see them a bit larger.



Punched in the face area
October 12, 2009, 11:14 am
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Here is something I did a while ago. It was for a poster show.

The whole was done for fun. I was kinda obsessed with boxers and astronauts at the time, so I decided to pit them against each other. The other 3 pictures are the side attractions that would have run alongside the fight.

The idea was to make everything look those old photographs that have been hand coloured. I used really watered down paint and different kinds of ink and watercolours.

Click on the pictures to see them in more detail.



Stuck at the Desk
October 9, 2009, 1:12 pm
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Here’s something I did recently that went up at my old university.

Its a man sitting at a desk. I used watered down acrylic paints and black ink.

I posted a few close-ups so you can see some of the details.

To see them bigger, click on the pictures.




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