Description
Learn basic drawing skills, character development, story and panel creation and a brief overview of cartooning through the ages, as well as a discussion of the future of comics in today’s tech society. Come with an open mind and look forward to fun and creativity.
About the Artist — Tim Gibbons:
Tim received his Bachelor of Arts Degree at the University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL. At a very early age, he became mesmerized by early Mayan and Aztec art, which continues to be a theme in his paintings. Tim’s art is also influenced by science, sci-fi, history and politics. His media is pen and ink, acrylic, oil, mixed media, print work and sculpture. Tim’s work has been shown throughout Texas and Florida and has been exhibited in one-man gallery shows at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, TECO Public Art Gallery, Stageworks Theatre, Inkwood Books, Bamboozle Café, Bamboozle Tea Lounge, Kahwa Espresso at The Element, The Bunker and the Gasparilla Art Show, as well as the Florence Arts Studio, Florence, Oregon. Tim’s art has been published in the Brooklyn Art Library Sketchbook Project where it is on permanent display in the Brooklyn, NY Library of the Arts. His art has also been published in the Tampa Bay Artbook.
For the past 45 years Tim has been teaching both children and adults in the Tampa Bay area and throughout Hillsborough County, the Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas. In Houston, Texas Tim was the art director of the Houston, Texas Parks and Recreation Department.
In 2011 Tim was awarded the first Gladys S. Kashdin “Above and Beyond” award, presented for “always going above and beyond” in helping others in the arts community, as well as Commendation from the Hillsborough County Board of Commissioners for my contributions to the arts community in Hillsborough County, which was signed by all the Hillsborough County Board of Commissioners.
Tim is passionate in supporting the local arts community and placing art in public places. Currently he curates the art galleries at several Tampa and St Petersburg brewery galleries.
Tim can be reached at tim@funkyasamonkey.com, 813.231.2579. Follow him on Facebook: Funky As A Monkey Art Studio, Instagram: Gibbons2823.
Tim Gibbons: Artist Statement
“Art is a reflection of life built upon a foundation of mystery, amusement, exploration, experience and most importantly, serendipity. My drive, as an artist, is to explore and relate on paper, canvas or in 3-D what I assume existence is, not in any religious or spiritual meaning, but rather, in a more earth-bound and scientific view from the micro- to the macro-cosym of the universe. The steady pulse of life, with all its changes and complexities, is in harmony within this chaotic illusion. And, this illusion lives in every line drawn or brush stroke which I put to paper or canvas.
Science and humor go hand and hand in my art. I have strived, and have had some success, at presenting my personal experience in this voyage of earthbound awareness. I continue to attempt to expand my horizons in different medium and hope my images relate to a kindred spirit in humanity.