Tim Vigil art

2012-02-06T16:23:00.000-08:00

Tim Vigil pen and Ink

2011-12-28T00:04:00.000-08:00

Sorry for the delay--got busy. Should be updating a few times a week

Thanks

Frank F

Tim Vigil-Black and White

2011-09-15T23:51:00.000-07:00

TIM VIGIL AT COMIC CON 2011

2011-07-19T10:17:00.000-07:00

Tim will be in ARTISTS ALLEY-Tim Vigil II-08

Tim will be doing sketches, have new prints and comics.

2008 Super-Con Inking Panel - Tim Vigil inks Ernie Chan

2011-05-17T00:08:00.000-07:00

Norman Lindsay

2011-04-12T23:06:00.000-07:00

Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) was a renowned Australian artist and writer.
Lindsay was born in Creswick, Victoria. He was a prolific artist, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist and scale modeler, as well as being a highly talented boxer.
Norman was the son of Anglo-Irish surgeon Robert Charles William Alexander Lindsay and Jane Elizabeth Lindsay from Creswick. Fifth of ten children, he was the brother of Percy Lindsay (1870–1952), Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961), Ruby Lindsay (1885–1919), and Daryl Lindsay (1889–1976).

Works

He is widely regarded as one of Australia's greatest artists, producing a vast body of work in different media, including pen drawing, etching, watercolour, oil and sculptures in concrete and bronze.
A large body of his work is housed in his former home at Faulconbridge, New South Wales, now the Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum, and many works reside in private and corporate collections. His art continues to climb in value today. In 2002, a record price was attained by his oil painting, Spring's Innocence, which sold to the National Gallery of Victoria for A$333,900.
[edit]Loss
His frank and sumptuous nudes were highly controversial. In 1940, Rose took 16 crates of paintings, drawings and etchings to the U.S. to protect them from the nascent war. Unfortunately they were discovered when the train they travelled in caught fire, they were then impounded and burned as pornography by American officials. His older brother Lionel remembers Norman's reaction was, "'Don't worry, I'll do more.' And he did."[1]
[edit]Output
Lindsay's creative output was vast, his energy enormous. Several eyewitness accounts tell of his working practices in the 1920s. He would wake early and produce a watercolour before breakfast, then by mid-morning he would be in his etching studio where he would work until late afternoon. He would work on a concrete sculpture in the garden during the afternoon and in the evening write a new chapter for whatever novel he was working on at the time.
As a break, he would work on a model ship some days. He was highly inventive, melting down the lead casings of oil paint tubes to use for the figures on his model ships, made a large easel using a door, carved and decorated furniture, designed and built chairs, created garden planters, roman columns and built his own additions to the Faulconbridge property.
[edit]Career

Norman Lindsay, The trumpet calls (Sydney: W.A. Gullick Govt. Printer, c.1918); col. lithograph; 91 x 67.2 cm. National Library of Australia. Lindsay produced a number of propaganda and recruiting posters and cartoons for the Australian Government during World War I.

Cartoons such as this one, by Lindsay, were used both for recruitment and to promote conscription during World War I.
In 1895, Lindsay moved to Melbourne to work on a local magazine with his older brother Lionel. His Melbourne experiences are described in Rooms and Houses.
In 1901, he and Lionel joined the staff of the Sydney Bulletin, a weekly newspaper, magazine and review. His association there would last fifty years.
Lindsay wrote the children's classic The Magic Pudding published in 1918 and created a scandal when his novel Redheap (supposedly based on his hometown, Creswick) was banned due to censorship laws. Many of his novels have a frankness and vitality that matches his art.
Lindsay also worked as an editorial cartoonist, notable for often illustrating the racist and right-wing political leanings that dominated The Bulletin at that time; the "Red Menace" and "Yellow Peril" were popular themes in his cartoons. These attitudes occasionally spilled over into his other work, and modern editions of The Magic Pudding often omit one couplet in which "you unmitigated Jew" is used as an insult.
Lindsay was associated with a number of poets, such as Kenneth Slessor, Francis Webb and Hugh McCrae, influencing them in part through a philosophical system outlined in his book Creative Effort. He also illustrated the cover for the seminal Henry Lawson book, While the Billy Boils. Lindsay's son, Jack Lindsay, emigrated to England, where he set up Fanfrolico Press, which issued works illustrated by Lindsay.
Lindsay influenced more than a few artists, notably the illustrators Roy Krenkel and Frank Frazetta; he was also good friends with Ernest Moffitt.

Tim Vigil images misc.

2011-04-05T23:50:00.001-07:00

Tim Vigil art

2011-03-02T13:14:00.001-08:00

Faust vs. EO

2011-02-18T00:28:00.001-08:00

One of my favorite con sketches Tim did for me.

Faust

2011-02-15T23:08:00.001-08:00

Death Dealer and Frazetta stuff

2011-01-20T18:50:00.000-08:00

CUPID INK

2011-01-12T21:18:00.000-08:00

CUPID

2010-12-26T10:28:00.000-08:00

a BELATED MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM TIM VIGIL

DARK KINGDOM AND SWAMP THING

2010-12-04T09:05:00.000-08:00

Cuda and the Countess

2010-11-14T18:28:00.000-08:00

Conan and Barbarians

2010-11-03T23:37:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the Official Tim Vigil Blog

2010-11-01T00:30:00.000-07:00

Welcome. This is a blog that will showcase the work of Comic Artist Tim Vigil. A few of us, myself, Joe Vigil, Jeff Vigil, Glen Hammond and occasionally Tim himself, will be uploading images new and old, showcasing con sketches, covers and influences, like Joseph Clement Coll, Franklin Booth, Bernie Wrightson and more.

Here's some teasers--

The Official blog of Tim Vigil

Tim Vigil art

Tim Vigil pen and Ink

Tim Vigil-Black and White

TIM VIGIL AT COMIC CON 2011

2008 Super-Con Inking Panel - Tim Vigil inks Ernie Chan

Norman Lindsay

Tim Vigil images misc.

Tim Vigil art

Faust vs. EO

Faust

Death Dealer and Frazetta stuff

CUPID INK

CUPID

DARK KINGDOM AND SWAMP THING

Cuda and the Countess

Conan and Barbarians

Welcome to the Official Tim Vigil Blog