In progress

Here's a little preview of something I started this weekend, with plans to make it into a bigger project over the next week or two:

The Black Keys - All You Ever Wanted

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.

Update: Sketchbook online

I finally got around to scanning some spreads from my big sketchbook. They are now up on my website for your perusal, so check them out!
Right here!

Preview:

Image © J. Timlin 2011

Self-Portrait

A sketch from my new little sketchbook. Self-portrait from the reflection in my computer screen, during class. Those are some wonky eyes, but I didn't have a chance to fix them.

Image © J. Timlin 2011

Some recent sketches

Some pages out of my bigger sketchbook. A few are just studies drawing landscape features and such, others are thumbnail ideas for larger drawings.

Images © J. Timlin 2011

Open House exhibition

My sketchbook is in a show right now, in MICA's Fox 2 Gallery.
It is a show that the Drawing/Painting/GFA departments put together for the National Portfolio Day, which took place at MICA this weekend. It showcases a lot of great work from juniors and seniors in the above-mentioned departments, handpicked by faculty.
Following are some gallery photos. The show is up through next Monday, 13 December, so check it out if you have a chance!

My book, (image © J. Timlin 2010)

Proserpine

 Proserpine, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874

Copy in graphite.

 

 Sketchbook page,  Image © J. Timlin 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Senior Thesis

So far this summer I've begun to think about and work on my senior thesis, building off of the ideas I latched onto last semester. I've been writing a little about the work to flesh out my ideas, and sketching for some eventual pieces. More updates will hopefully be forthcoming, but until then here are some tidbits of what I have thus far:

Working Statement:

     In a certain sense, all art is about its maker. My art is about its maker in more than one sense.

     In my work I deal with my measure of consciousness (awareness) regarding my experiences. Sometimes the work is searching and sometimes the work is explaining, but it is always an attempt to understand the significance of my experience to myself and to my development as an individual. I have begun searching out my personal visual vocabulary, which I use in my work to revisit, reflect on, and reinterpret my life- from the events, to the feelings, to the people it contains- and what it all means to me in the moments of creation. At times, the work may coincidentally play to the universality of human experience, but typically its aim is solely the selfish, and specific. In a certain sense, all art is about its maker. My art is about its maker in every sense.

Allegory of Home series:

Charity:

all images and text © J. Timlin 2010

Sketchbook, Fall 2009 & Spring 2010

Here are some sketchbook pages from last semester, when I was at MICA, and taking the train into DC often for my internship.

Here are some more recent pages from the same book, from trips and wandering around Italy and Florence.

all images © Jeff Timlin 2010

Some studies

Ponte Rialto, Venezia by night.
Firenze from Piazzale Michelangelo.
Sketchbook page: Firenze and Venezia.

All images © J. Timlin 2010

Quick.

image © J. Timlin 2009

Mystery Bug (Cicada)

Yesterday while exiting the house, my family and I encountered a very strange looking bug. It was attached to a vertical support of the porch, and it seemed to be a beetle-esque little creature with a strange (rather disturbing looking) growth on its back. I of course returned to the house to get my sketchbook, and when I returned I found the "growth" to be the actual bug itself, which was in the process of evolving or emerging from its hard exterior shell. The bug sat there for hours, as it must have been adjusting and allowing its wings to shake out and dry out. I did some drawings of the little guy, and then stole his shell, since I figured he wouldn't need it.

Following are some sketchbook studies of the hatching in red pencil, and some more detailed and closer studies of the shell.

After some research today, the bug was found to be a cicada.









































This is sort of what it looked like when we found it, except I couldn't see the eyes.











This is my photo of the cicada on its empty exoskeleton.







I also found this animation on wikipedia, depicting the event we experienced.

Sargent copy

This is a sketchbook copy after Sargent's portrait of Beatrice Townsend. The more full-body drawing was done with the sketchbook lying on the table (because I'm an idiot), so everything's a little bit elongated. I'm pretty happy with the face study though, I think I got a handle on the facial features (particularly the nose) much better in that one than the full-body version. Graphite on paper.




















image © J. Timlin 2009

Sketches.

Quick sketch of mom. It's eh. The eyes bother me, but she went to bed.