The Art Of Tim Stringer

The painting is complete but I did remember to save a few snapshots along the way. Above is the piece with the solid black background, foreground roughed in and some of the underpainting.  Look closely and you’ll see see the drawing still visible.

This snap shot shows most of the underpainting complete. Major light and shadow is roughed in as well indications of the detail work to follow.

This stage shows the detail work in full swing.  Most noticable are that the feet and legs.

Here we see the lighter areas reworked and defined.

And the final painting.  Additional detail work done to the hands and feet as well as matching the floor shadow to the figure. Before it was just roughly there.

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In the past I’ve tried to take snapshots of works as they progress but sooner or later I’ll forget at some stage and then the effort is lost. I’m trying it again, but this time I’m going to post them as I do it. Maybe I’ll actually get snapshots of every major step.

Most of my paintings begin as a drawing.  In general they aren’t terribly detailed, just the shapes and indications of major light and dark points. Digital drawings unlike my conventional drawings tend to be less detailed.  I haven’t exactly mastered a digital drawing techniques, so I tend to use a cross hatch method of shading.  As a preliminary for a painting it works well enough.  As a stand alone drawing there is room for improvement.

The painting as I envision it will have a limited color palette, black and blue. In my mind confusion if a blue emotion so the entire figure will be done in blue with a black background. The concept I think is great. Hopefully I can pull it off.

It has been a couple of weeks since I’ve had anything to post. Evidence to the contrary, I have been very busy. The last week of May my partner and I were able to travel to Maui, Hawaii. It was a once in a lifetime trip and we made the most of it. Not only did we return with many wonderful memories but we also came back with over a thousand pictures and a couple hours of video.

Upon returning I spent the better part of week just sorting through the photos. I spent several more days resizing and posting them on a subdirectory of my site.

Once I had the pictures posted, them I selected a few to upload to Redbubble for purchase. Those can be seen here.

Once that was all done, then I started tackling the video. I wanted to tell the story of what we saw and did while on Maui. And to make it available to everyone, I wanted to post the whole thing up on YouTube. It took me over a week to put it all together and then I discovered that it was way too long for YouTube. They allow a maximum of 10 minutes for a video. In total, my complete video came in over 40 minutes. So I went back and broke it into segements. In the end there were six segments and I even added a few more still shots to the first one. You can see all of them on my YouTube channel. I hope everyone enjoys. We certain will never forget our week in paradise.

This is one of those pieces that sat on the back burner for awhile.  The original concept work was done several months ago.  In many ways this is a very straight forward painting of dried and cracked earth. The question to me is that if global warming becomes a more serious threat, will this become a more common sight?

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I hadn’t intended on working on, let alone completing a painting today.  I had thought that finishing Dunes At Sunset yesterday had fulfilled my need to create. Even when I started the piece I didn’t think I’d finish it, but once I began, they was no stopping until it was finished.

Cliffs, which is an abstract landscape painting done with subtle shifts between blue and magenta. Like the other paintings in this series, it began with blocks of color that was pushed and pulled around the canvas. And as with my other abstract landscapes, there was considerable detail work done after the shapes emerged.

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