The Art Of Tim Stringer

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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I do have an affinity for desert scenes.  There is a certain purity to be found in a seemingly lifeless desert. Wind, shifting sands, features that change on an almost daily basis’s.  Having seen more than a few shows on the Discovery Channel, I know that a seemingly lifeless desert is just that. Life does exist there and in surprising abundance.

Again I have started with large blocks of color and just pushed them around until shapes emerge and then work those shapes into abstract landscape painting It is an interesting process and one that for the time being has captured my imagination. 1 of 1 Edition and prints available from my main website.

Another of my experimental pieces done in same manner as Melted Landscape, large blocks of color and then push them around until something starts to take shape. As before I used a fairly small palette of color. Taupe Dunes is far more tranquil than Melted Landscape and to me seems reminiscent of early morning or late evening. As with any abstract though, what the viewer sees is just as valid.

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As much as I have been enjoying working with abstracts I still enjoy returning to traditional subject matter. In a sense it is comforting to me as an artist to just paint what I see instead of trying to convey a thought or emotion through abstraction.
Bashful Poser is fairly straight forward; a figure posing but also being just a bit shy about it. The style is loose, broad brush strokes with minimal blending.
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Experimentation is something I’ve been doing a lot of lately. I’ve been pushing my boundaries and trying different techniques.  Abstract art continue to capture my imagination. Melted Landscapes is the result of experimentation of several kinds. To start with I created several geometric shapes and then began pushing the colors around in an almost aimless fashion. After a bit I just “saw” the basics of a landscape begin to emerge. Once I saw that,  then I began working the piece with a purpose, further defining the landscape.   Prints are available through Imagekind by clicking here. Also available in a 1 of 1 signed canvas, 48×36″. See my main website, for ordering details.