John Tinger grew up in Massachusetts and now lives in Oakland California. John started out with a degree as a civil engineer. It was only when working for the peace corps as a volunteer in Uruguay, South America that John began to learn the techniques of batik. He likes batik because of the random results that it produces that are only completely revealed in the final step. He likes the art form because he can use bright colors and simple shapes to create complex designs. He also likes batik because you you don't have to worry about little details as much. Like most batik artist John believes that there are no mistakes in batik, all the drips, cracks, and dye spills are all part of the creative process. John likes the concept of using very old, traditional media for contemporary stylized images. His inspiration is based on his interests in music, sports, architecture, engineering and the outdoors. Recently John has begun to bring some of his engineering background into his batik work by creating mixed media using three dimensional structural and truss components to lay over the batik.
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John's style is a lot different from the other artists that I have looked at so far. He isn't concerned with putting all the little details into his art. I like that he has some that he tries to do with a little more detail and that he also does batiks with less detail. I like both ways but sometimes I think that to much detail can take away from the piece of work so sometimes its nice to just go as simply as possible as long as you can still get the subject of the work to be depicted clearly enough. My favorite of his work is the batik of the spider. I like all the colors that he used in it and I also like the border that he created. I like that the spider is so simple but you can still tell that it is a spider and that he also did give it some detail but it is the most simple detail that you can give. I really like how he did the spider web too. The web is very detailed and the colors behind it work very well in this batik.
John's style is a lot different from the other artists that I have looked at so far. He isn't concerned with putting all the little details into his art. I like that he has some that he tries to do with a little more detail and that he also does batiks with less detail. I like both ways but sometimes I think that to much detail can take away from the piece of work so sometimes its nice to just go as simply as possible as long as you can still get the subject of the work to be depicted clearly enough. My favorite of his work is the batik of the spider. I like all the colors that he used in it and I also like the border that he created. I like that the spider is so simple but you can still tell that it is a spider and that he also did give it some detail but it is the most simple detail that you can give. I really like how he did the spider web too. The web is very detailed and the colors behind it work very well in this batik.
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