Surrender Everything

A detail of "Surrender Everything"

The largest piece in the current show I have at University of Portland is a work I’ve been plugging away on for some time entitled, “Surrender Everything.”  For the work, I wanted to create sculptural figures that were a bit more dominant than they can often be in my work.  I was pleased with the results.  It took some negotiating as to how to piece it together, but through a lot of screws, and deciding to bolt the figures to the base, we had success.

If you look at an earlier post I wrote on St. Jerome you can see a painting that has the lion I based mine on for this work, along with one of the images  of Jerome I was looking at to create the large wooden figure.  The lion is a development of the gouache and watercolor images I have been doing smaller over the years that I would also create temporary versions of on gallery walls.

I wondered what would happen if I actually made a illuminated manuscript type figure large, that is actually a physical part of the piece.  He very much “speaks his mind” in the work visually, and I like how he references too the folk tradition of wooden cut outs.

Hope your Sunday is going well.  Hope to see you at the closing reception a week from Thursday (the 3rd) at University of Portland (from 5-7).

Tim Timmerman, "Surrender Everything" oil on wood, found objects, glass, cast glass, and plaster. Approximately 3 1/2'x 5' (click image to see image larger).

 

Leave of Absence

Leave of Absence , Tim Timmerman, oil on wooden panel / reclaimed wood / pate de verre / kiln worked glass / ceramic; 37”x23 ½”x10”; 5/10

Here is another work that is currently featured in the exhibition down at Bush Barn in Salem that is up till the end of the month.  The images that I based the painting on are from an area on the Oregon Coast south of Devil’s Punchbowl.  You may recognize this little boat as well as their is a post about me making it last summer.  I had a nice time combining elements of glass, ceramic, assemblage, and painting in this work.

Leave of Absence detail of pate de' verre boat and lower portion of the work.

 

Hold Steady

Hold Steady, Tim Timmerman, 4/10, oil on wood with reclaimed wood and lumber, assemblage, cast glass, and ceramic with oil finish.

Here is one of the completed new pieces. Some elements of this should look very familiar (the painting was posted a couple months back).

My friend Melanie Hulbert hit the nail on the head when she said to me at the recent opening in Salem, “What are these about Tim?  The tornadoes are both beautiful and terrifing.”  To which I replied “Exactly.”

Detail of "Hold Steady," This figure should look familiar, as it, and the painting were an inspiration for the monoprint I did of the same charachters and landscape last fall.

 

A suggestion…

"A Suggestion as to How Many Times to Knock Before you May Possibly Get an Answer," Tim Timmerman, oil on panel/mixed media, 26"x17"x4", 4/10

Here is the other parable (or parable #1 from the earlier post) that is now complete.  This one is based on the friend knocking in the night. Here is the scripture:

Luke 11; 5-10

⁵Then he said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend, and he goes to him at midnight and says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, ⁶because a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have nothing to set before him.’

⁷“Then the one inside answers, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is already locked, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give you anything.’ ⁸I tell you, though he will not get up and give him the bread because he is his friend, yet because of the man’s boldness^[a] he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

⁹“So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. ¹⁰For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

This work was difficult to photograph as it is purposely dark (it’s night you know) and there are small figures and other items purposely hidden behind the grid.  There is a dog, donkey, couple, fruit, St. John and an owl that you can find when you see it in person.  The bottom of the piece has a series of bingo balls with various numbers (the title is a nod to them- try, try, again).

Once again this piece likely will be in a Parable exhibition that will be traveling out and about, and also may show up in the art show down at Bush Barn in May.

Keep on knocking! (-;

 

Name that parable.

Parable #2

Parable #1

Parable: noun; A short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.

So, I have been invited to participate in an exhibition of works influenced by the parables found in the New Testament.  I have finished the paintings and am currently launching in the pieces sculptural and assemblage frames.

I thought it would be fun to put them out here and see if you can figure out what parables they are of.  Some information (such as figures) are missing because they are going to be a part of sculptural aspect of the work.

So can you name what parables that these paintings are of?  In a couple of weeks I’ll post a comment on this post with the answer.

 

The Storms Keep Coming

12"x12" I've been pleased how these paintings have been coming along. Now just wait till you see them with all their additions. I'm looking forward to getting them in their finished state.

Here is the third of what will be four storm paintings.  Their assemblage/sculptural frames are coming along, but to be honest I want to show those to you when they’re in their finished state.  Maybe I’ll give you a peek at some of the sculptural pieces as they get built.  We’ll see.  I’ve been enjoying engaging with these weather systems in oil.  I have found myself looking a lot at clouds lately.

I’ll be off line here for about a week, but the blogs will start up again in a bit. Hope you are well.

 

Another Storm on the Horizon

Another 12" x 12" storm I've painted recently to be part of a larger sculptural work....

Well thought I’d put another one of the storm paintings out there for you to see (see post for Jan. 26th).  I’m still working on the sculptural elements of these pieces, but their bound to get done by May, so I promise they’ll show up here in their full glory eventually.

Likely in this one you can see I’m a big fan of the American romantic painters Cole and Church. Very much so indeed….

 

David Camack Lewis on fire.

Muddy Road by David Camack Lewis; Oil on canvas 46"w x 33"h

I got a recent e-mail from an artist friend David Camack Lewis that he’s updated his website and put up some new paintings. I thought I’d pass his site on to you:

http://www.davidcarmacklewis.com/

I actually knew of David and his work when he and I both lived in Phoenix Arizona over ten years ago.  I’ve always liked his illustrative and allegorical qualities. (His work kind of reminds me of Chris Van Allsburg a bit- except color:  http://www.chrisvanallsburg.com/flash.html.)

David’s paintings of Portland neighborhoods and houses with “fire” are wonderful to see in person, and this recent set of evening scenes are beautiful.  He really nails night time lighting and has a nice personal style to his work as well.

Check em out.

 

The Coming Storms

A 12"x12" painting that I have recently completed that will be part of a larger work.

Launching as of late into several 12″x12″ paintings I’m creating of tumultuous weather.  These works will be parts of larger works that include sculpted and assemblage elements.  This time around with the work I’ve chosen to create the figurative or character elements as separate sculptural pieces, rather than paint them into the panel with the landscape.  These figures will sit out front or around the paintings.

I think storms have intrigued me because there in much in this life with its beauty and ferociousness that is out of my control.  It is simply about what choices I make when those storms come, and they do inevitably come.

By the way- I’m working on these for a show I’m in down in Salem at Bush Barn in May.  More info to come later…

Blessings- keep your eyes peeled here in the next couple of months for more paintings and the finished version of these with all their sculpted elements.

 

Ruminate Magazine & My Art.

"The Fool Left at the Table," 19"x17"x13"; ink and watercolor on clayboard/clay/wood

Well, I was delighted as of late to get two pieces of mine published  in color in a very thoughtful quarterly journal of faith that reflects upon literature and art: Ruminate Magazine.  I’m in there winter 2009-2010 issue (number 14).  Here’s there website:  http://www.ruminatemagazine.org./

“The Fool Left at the Table,”(on left here) is a work I completed a couple of years ago.   Interesting enough, the ink and watercolor painting was created in a hostel Amsterdam in May of 2006 when I found myself awake in the middle of the night while I adjusted to the new time zone.  The construction part of the work was built here in Oregon. This work is featured on the inside of the back cover.

“Traveler” can be found on the back cover and is a painting that has been waiting for its time in the sun for some time.  It is one of the three paintings that I painted in Arizona before I moved to the Northwest.  This winter, I finally finished its assemblage frame.  The photo I’m including is of the completed work.  The magazine features the painting.  Does the painting look familiar?  It can be seen leaning on my shelf on the far left in the photo that serves as my banner for this blog.

Pretty cool to have these things out there in print.  Give the magazine a look-see if you have a chance, you may discover some new writers, poets or artists that you find of interest.

"Traveler" Tim Timmerman, oil on wooden panel/mosaic/assemblage; 6/3 &12/09 (This is the whole image- in the magazine they featured the painting. Once again, this is the last of the three I photographed on my orange wall)