Zindy
07-15-2012, 11:52 AM
http://zindy-zone.dk/images/mixed/up_close_and_personal/tim/tim.jpg
Can you tell us a bit about yourself?
Hello everyone, my name is Timothy Luk. I’m 25 and I’m from Toronto, Canada. I recently graduated from pharmacy school and I have a younger sister who is also finishing up with school. I’m quite active. On my free time I like going to the gym, swimming and playing tennis. On my down time I also enjoy reading, painting and watching television. This summer I will be cruising in Northern Europe in early June and visiting friends & family in Vancouver, Canada in late July.
How did you find the ZindyZone Forums?
It has been years since I’ve discovered the Forums but I must have found it searching for pictures of LOST characters, which used to be one of my favourite shows. When I first created my thread it was quite small with only a few pencil portraits. Now it has grown and diversified quite a bit through the years!
How long have you been doing art and what got you started?
Art has always been my passion since I was very little. My Mom would bring me to art and music summer camps where I would doodle. From a young age, I used to draw hockey players, animals and dinosaurs, faces, action stick figures and even designed floor plans, mazes etc. Art was always one of my favourite subjects in school so I kept up with it throughout high school doing various random projects. It wasn’t until after first year of university that I took art more seriously.
The story is that when school finished for the summer, I drew my first portrait using a reference. The stubborn artist in me had always refused to use references. Although it was a slow and tedious process, I was surprised at my own ability, so I decided to get it framed. At the framing shop, the shopkeeper suggested that I consider taking lessons from an artist who host informal gatherings at his home. I thought about my desire for painting landscapes and thought sure, why not. It turns out his specialty was in portraits so I showed him my two pencil portraits (below). Starting from the basics by drawing from pictures of statue heads, I started learning how to draw more loosely and quickly. From then on I eventually progressed each summer from pencil to charcoal, soft pastel and finally oil.
My first portraits before lessons:
http://i1043.photobucket.com/albums/b440/timothykhluk/drawings/arighettifinaldrawingkeepboth.jpg http://i1043.photobucket.com/albums/b440/timothykhluk/drawings/mfoxunfinished.jpg
What medium/materials do you like to work with the most?
Right now my favourite medium to work is water-soluble oil. I really like it because my style is a blended mesh of water and oil along with my background using soft pastel. As a result, the beginning starts off like watercolour, the middle like soft pastel and the end finished like oil. Because the oil is water-mixable, it is less toxic as well.
· An artwork which I feel encapsulates this trifecta of mediums is my painting of the Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Canada. Do you notice the three different styles used?:
http://i1043.photobucket.com/albums/b440/timothykhluk/Evening%20Skating%20in%20the%20Rideau%20Canal/rideaucanalfinal.jpg
What's your favourite motive and why?
My favourite motives for me are beauty, mood and atmosphere, whether I am painting a portrait or a landscape. My approach to each painting is to take a reference and paint a beautiful representation or interpretation of it. My style is more emotive and intuitive, than technical. When I look at reference I figure out what makes it beautiful and transform it into my own creation.
My technical process is something I have developed on my own and it has to do with my ability to continually rotate through all the colours and place them wherever I see fit. There are no preset instructions to tell me where to place certain colours and the reference is often not nearly as colourful. As a result, I let my mind decide itself and I place them intuitively with little thought using a very loose style that gradually becomes more defined. However, sometimes it can get too loose so at a certain point I slow myself down in order to focus on detail.
The advantage of my style is that painting without thinking allows me to paint very quickly. Every time I lift my brush and put it down, it’s in a different spot on the canvas as I don’t systematically paint in any direction. Once I am satisfied that I have used my particular colour or effect without going too much overboard, I move on to the next stage because I know I will eventually paint another round of the particular colour/effect down the road.
Besides rotating between all the colours, I also continually rotate between light and shadow, atmosphere vs detail, colour vs depth etc. For example in one stage, I may use a light colour, and then use a dark colour the next stage. If I focus on the atmosphere (broad watery strokes) in one stage, I lose some detail so I then focus on detail (sharper thin strokes) in the next stage. If I use a lot of detailed colour in one stage, I will next take blunt some of the colour to enhance the perception of depth (eg. far objects are not as clear) etc. and then re-introduce colour again.
My painting of Whistler Village is a good example in which I was able to demonstrate my incorporation of various motives into the painting process. Before painting, I did not create a map or plan of action. It wasn’t until after I was finished that I retroactively labeled each step with a goal or theme I was trying to accomplish. This is the last painting I am able to break down into explainable steps for an audience. Now my painting is becoming more complex and difficult to break down as I use more and more repetition (10x or more) of the motives seen in the Whistler Village painting.
My step-by-step process of the Whistler Village painting:
http://zindy-zone.dk/forum/showthread.php?t=11687
http://zindy-zone.dk/images/mixed/up_close_and_personal/tim/whistlerprefinal.jpg
What are your favourite pieces of yours?
My favourite pencil sketch:
Ship by the docks
http://zindy-zone.dk/images/mixed/up_close_and_personal/tim/007.jpg
My favourite soft pastel portrait:
James Caviezel (Passion of the Christ)
http://zindy-zone.dk/images/mixed/up_close_and_personal/tim/jesus_tim.jpg
My favourite oil portrait:
Sadie (16” by 20”)
http://zindy-zone.dk/images/mixed/up_close_and_personal/tim/sadie.jpg
My favourite oil landscape:
Pa Beach, New Zealand (20” by 16”)
http://zindy-zone.dk/images/mixed/up_close_and_personal/tim/pabeach.jpg
Can you tell us a bit about yourself?
Hello everyone, my name is Timothy Luk. I’m 25 and I’m from Toronto, Canada. I recently graduated from pharmacy school and I have a younger sister who is also finishing up with school. I’m quite active. On my free time I like going to the gym, swimming and playing tennis. On my down time I also enjoy reading, painting and watching television. This summer I will be cruising in Northern Europe in early June and visiting friends & family in Vancouver, Canada in late July.
How did you find the ZindyZone Forums?
It has been years since I’ve discovered the Forums but I must have found it searching for pictures of LOST characters, which used to be one of my favourite shows. When I first created my thread it was quite small with only a few pencil portraits. Now it has grown and diversified quite a bit through the years!
How long have you been doing art and what got you started?
Art has always been my passion since I was very little. My Mom would bring me to art and music summer camps where I would doodle. From a young age, I used to draw hockey players, animals and dinosaurs, faces, action stick figures and even designed floor plans, mazes etc. Art was always one of my favourite subjects in school so I kept up with it throughout high school doing various random projects. It wasn’t until after first year of university that I took art more seriously.
The story is that when school finished for the summer, I drew my first portrait using a reference. The stubborn artist in me had always refused to use references. Although it was a slow and tedious process, I was surprised at my own ability, so I decided to get it framed. At the framing shop, the shopkeeper suggested that I consider taking lessons from an artist who host informal gatherings at his home. I thought about my desire for painting landscapes and thought sure, why not. It turns out his specialty was in portraits so I showed him my two pencil portraits (below). Starting from the basics by drawing from pictures of statue heads, I started learning how to draw more loosely and quickly. From then on I eventually progressed each summer from pencil to charcoal, soft pastel and finally oil.
My first portraits before lessons:
http://i1043.photobucket.com/albums/b440/timothykhluk/drawings/arighettifinaldrawingkeepboth.jpg http://i1043.photobucket.com/albums/b440/timothykhluk/drawings/mfoxunfinished.jpg
What medium/materials do you like to work with the most?
Right now my favourite medium to work is water-soluble oil. I really like it because my style is a blended mesh of water and oil along with my background using soft pastel. As a result, the beginning starts off like watercolour, the middle like soft pastel and the end finished like oil. Because the oil is water-mixable, it is less toxic as well.
· An artwork which I feel encapsulates this trifecta of mediums is my painting of the Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Canada. Do you notice the three different styles used?:
http://i1043.photobucket.com/albums/b440/timothykhluk/Evening%20Skating%20in%20the%20Rideau%20Canal/rideaucanalfinal.jpg
What's your favourite motive and why?
My favourite motives for me are beauty, mood and atmosphere, whether I am painting a portrait or a landscape. My approach to each painting is to take a reference and paint a beautiful representation or interpretation of it. My style is more emotive and intuitive, than technical. When I look at reference I figure out what makes it beautiful and transform it into my own creation.
My technical process is something I have developed on my own and it has to do with my ability to continually rotate through all the colours and place them wherever I see fit. There are no preset instructions to tell me where to place certain colours and the reference is often not nearly as colourful. As a result, I let my mind decide itself and I place them intuitively with little thought using a very loose style that gradually becomes more defined. However, sometimes it can get too loose so at a certain point I slow myself down in order to focus on detail.
The advantage of my style is that painting without thinking allows me to paint very quickly. Every time I lift my brush and put it down, it’s in a different spot on the canvas as I don’t systematically paint in any direction. Once I am satisfied that I have used my particular colour or effect without going too much overboard, I move on to the next stage because I know I will eventually paint another round of the particular colour/effect down the road.
Besides rotating between all the colours, I also continually rotate between light and shadow, atmosphere vs detail, colour vs depth etc. For example in one stage, I may use a light colour, and then use a dark colour the next stage. If I focus on the atmosphere (broad watery strokes) in one stage, I lose some detail so I then focus on detail (sharper thin strokes) in the next stage. If I use a lot of detailed colour in one stage, I will next take blunt some of the colour to enhance the perception of depth (eg. far objects are not as clear) etc. and then re-introduce colour again.
My painting of Whistler Village is a good example in which I was able to demonstrate my incorporation of various motives into the painting process. Before painting, I did not create a map or plan of action. It wasn’t until after I was finished that I retroactively labeled each step with a goal or theme I was trying to accomplish. This is the last painting I am able to break down into explainable steps for an audience. Now my painting is becoming more complex and difficult to break down as I use more and more repetition (10x or more) of the motives seen in the Whistler Village painting.
My step-by-step process of the Whistler Village painting:
http://zindy-zone.dk/forum/showthread.php?t=11687
http://zindy-zone.dk/images/mixed/up_close_and_personal/tim/whistlerprefinal.jpg
What are your favourite pieces of yours?
My favourite pencil sketch:
Ship by the docks
http://zindy-zone.dk/images/mixed/up_close_and_personal/tim/007.jpg
My favourite soft pastel portrait:
James Caviezel (Passion of the Christ)
http://zindy-zone.dk/images/mixed/up_close_and_personal/tim/jesus_tim.jpg
My favourite oil portrait:
Sadie (16” by 20”)
http://zindy-zone.dk/images/mixed/up_close_and_personal/tim/sadie.jpg
My favourite oil landscape:
Pa Beach, New Zealand (20” by 16”)
http://zindy-zone.dk/images/mixed/up_close_and_personal/tim/pabeach.jpg