website

I have finally really started to buckle down and try and get my website going. I purchased the domain name already (www.timothyfrailey.com) and the space and I just need to get some things made and put together with the help of my brother and I should be on the roll after that. Not only will I hope to be steadily updating the site with new vidual works but also some written things I have been working on also. today I had to retake some pictures of some of the works because the old ones were not very crisp and I wasn't too happy with them. I will post updates as I go!


Also, I have been playing around with the camera a bit along with a filter that I bought also, I don't think I have any decent pictures with this filter though but some interesting shots still without.

hello

I have been lazy for some time now so I haven't been very creative as of lately. I have been sketching and such on a regular basis though but haven't been doing anything too serious or exciting. I do this sometimes, where I kind of walk away from painting and drawing for awhile because sometimes it starts to feel like work and it isn't fun at the time. Anyways, I started a sketch that I found fairly interesting and fun and the way it evolved was pretty crazy. It was supposed to be very simple and subtle but I guess my imagination took over. The original idea was just a young girl with a kite flyying above in a dreary sky with a single rain cloud hovering over only the girl. I had a lot of fun though and the meaning and ideas changed completely. Here is the drawing along with the finished painting. Hopefully this will spark some inspiration for some future works.

Soldier

So after going out and buying a new camera, I was finally able to get pictures of two paintings that I had done recently. Both are soft watercolors and getting a picture was pretty hard and took many tries to keep the soft colors preserved. Both pictures were sketches that I had drawn up months ago but just got around to painting.

New Camera

After much frustration of trying to take pictures of some of my new works I decided it was time to go get a new camera. I did so and I have been playing with it non stop since. I will get good pictures of the two new paintings tomorrow when the sun is out. Here are some pictures taken while messing with it this past weekend.

busy

I am in the process of moving, again. This weekend I will be moving back to Maryland to escape the pay of rent and to sit back and think clearly about where exactly I am heading I guess. I have been drawing and sketching quite a bit though, but painting has been hard since a lot of my things are packed away and hard to get to. I did manage to complete one painting today though since I had all morning to do so and felt as if I haven't been doing so much lately. The painting is a remake of a really old drawing I did a few years ago, I'll post the original drawing, even though it is very sloppy and unimpressive. I changed it all around quite a bit though from start to finish. Anyways, here is the original, a progress picture and a complete.

The new sketch was changed quite a bit from the original
Here is a picture of the progress, with the background colors laid out and the base colors also.

Acrylic on paper

I am very excited about the other sketches that I have been working on and plan on spending a lot of time on them. They will most likely be watercolor paintings, when I get around to painting.
Since I am in the process of moving, it may take longer than I would like to complete but I'll post them once completed.

Looking towards the future

Wanting to paint something more realistic with my acrylics I decided about a month ago to do a self portrait. I wanted the figure to have a blind fold over the eyes though because doing a regular one sounded kind of boring to me. So I took some reference pictures and such and started painting. I was happy with the way it came out, having wanted it to be real clean and smooth but at the same time it was kind of boring too. I put it aside and moved on after that until last night. Having a bit of a break after a long week of stress and sketching and painting I wanted to just do something fun or messy I guess. So I dragged the portrait picture out and decided to get messy. I still preserved a lot of the portrait style but splashed a lot of whites off the blind fold and dripped the shadows down to eliminate the shoulders and all along with some other small details. This is a lot different than anything else I have really ever done and I was really excited as it was all kind of evolving. Anyways, here is the picture :)

So I came across a bulletin from a record label that supports a couple of my favorite bands that was asking for merch designers. I wouldn't say that I am much of a merch designer but I thought up a couple of cool things that I thought followed the style of the music the bands created and would look somewhat interesting on a shirt or hoodie or whatever it was needed for. I submitted 9 different images in all, with a couple variations for each. Some of the images were older paintings or drawings that I did that fit just fine but I did do 5 total new drawings and paintings. I originally planned on just drawing them up in pen and then adding color in photoshop but after doing so I just didn't like the way it looked and I thought I would like them better painted. So I did so. Since I didn't intend on painting on sketchbook paper, I didn't paint them the way I normally would have if it had been on watercolor paper instead. Anyways, here are 4 of the new drawings I did. I like a couple of them a lot and may redo them on better paper and expand on the image some more, but I tried to keep it fairly simple since they are for merch. If any get accepted, I will post up the final images after editing :)

This was a sketch I had been working on before I started with the other designs. The meaning for the image is not visible yet until I finish it and paint it when I get a chance to. I have another one similar in subject that may go with it also. sorry for the bad picture.