"Three Black Eyes"

"Three Black Eyes", Mixed media, 5x5

"Three Black Eyes"

"Lily Field"

"Lily Field", Mixed media, 5x5

"Lily Field"

"Alone in the Superunknown III"

"Alone in the Superunknown III", Mixed media, 5x7

"Alone in the Superunknown III"

"Daphne"

"Daphne", Mixed media, 7x5

"Daphne"

"Alone in the Superunknown II"

"Alone in the Superunknown II", Mixed media, 5x7

"Alone in the Superunknown II"

"Oak Study"

"Oak Study", Mixed media, 6x5

"Oak Study"

"Marigolden III"

"Marigolden III", Mixed media, 3.75x4.75

"Marigolden III"

"Confide in Wolves at Night"

"Confide in Wolves at Night", Mixed media, 5x8

"Confide in Wolves at Night"

"Marigolden I"

"Marigolden I", Mixed media, 4x4

"Marigolden I"

"Standing Next to a Mountain"

Another new piece-

"Standing Next to a Mountain", Mixed media, 7x5

"Standing Next to a Mountain"

New small works!

A handful of new small works are incoming - one a day for over a week! Keep an eye out!

"Window of Opportunity", Mixed media, 7x5,

"Window of Opportunity"

Tonight's efforts

Got a bit more mapping done on this tonight,

and perhapsss look out for some experiments in color this weekend.

Plugging in!

World,

While I see you've been flying on like a freight train without me lately, I'm back on board. After another of countless hiatuses, I am plugging back in... for good! My reasons for tuning out were legitimate, but I am feeling creative, productive, and motivated of late, and I'm ready to be back on track. As proof of my commitment, you can now follow me on various social networking platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest (/ThePenumbrous)!
On my website, find the product of my motivation this past month in a new piece titled "Extricate or Atrophy" (catch a little detail shot below). This I feel is a milestone piece for me and will set the tone aesthetically for the direction I'm headed in the near future. I am also, bit by bit, updating my site, starting with a sort of re-design, which has already occurred. If any of this strikes your interest, follow along with me, and please, tell your friends! I've already got new pieces taped down and in the works! Stay tuned, the best is yet to come!

Thanks for the support,
Best,
J

Extricate or Atrophy (detail), Graphite, pen, and ink transfer on paper, 16"x16", 2013

Sketchbook pages from February

Spreads are 3.25 x 10 inches, from one of my handmade sketchbooks. Sorry the scans aren't great.

Pen, acrylic

Pencil, pen, gold acrylic

Pencil, pen, gold acrylic

 This one is still in progress, pencil and pen (shown both ways up).

...tol' you I'm back.

Images © J. Timlin 2012.

Drawing for class

Joaquin Sorolla, Sewing the Sail,

Powdered graphite on Lennox,
Image © J. Timlin 2011

Commencement Exhibition!

I'm a little behind here, thanks to all the year-end fuss, but let's start back up with this:
Some photos of my senior thesis work at the Commencement Exhibition! There was a big pedestal with my sketchbook and scroll too, but I guess I didn't get a picture of that. Oops.

Also, better images of all of these are now on my website, just click on that black feather in the upper left.
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Update

I've updated the "Progressions" page with the latest stages of the Allegory of Home #2 drawing. Check them out by clicking the tab above.

The cityscape is starting to develop. I'm not sure how I feel about it and its effect on the work both conceptually and formally/compositionally. I'll keep working though, and see where it leads.

Also, soon to come: Sketches for my projects on deck.

Another New Drawing

This is the latest stage of another new drawing, from the same series.
You can also find images of this drawing's progression on my "Progressions" page (see tab above).

Allegory of Home #2
Charcoal on paper
3' x 6'

Image © J. Timlin 2010

New Drawing

The paintings were getting to feel laborious, and I wasn't enjoying working on them, so I started reinterpreting my topic in large scale drawings. The idea was to make the compositions more dynamic, and break the "fourth wall" more effectively. This is the same subject, but less frontal, and the hierarchy of scale is less irresolute, meaning that the important objects in the image are actually treated as though they are important.
They are still in progress. More images to come.


Allegory of Home #1
Charcoal on paper
3' x 5.5'

Image © J. Timlin 2010

New developments

The results of some more studio time today:
It still looks too effeminate, which is something I'll be working on changing. I also still need to resolve the bottom/lower right, and activate that expanse on the left, but I have tentative plans for all of that.


yet the Fates said No.
Charcoal on canvas
32" x 42"

Image © J. Timlin 2010