Meet Tim
Tim Hutchings was born and raised in the tiny town of Bunker Hill, Kansas. He received his formal art training at Fort Hays State University in Graphic Design, and after a twenty year hiatus completed a degree in Graphic Design and Multi-Media at Westwood College in Houston, Texas.
After High School, he attended college, but his heart just wasn’t into doing art. After a couple of years of college, he pursued his adventurous side, and become a private investigator, bounty hunter, and occasional bodyguard. This was great because it allowed him to study his other great love, the martial arts. The martial arts for him was about inner qualities, and created a love for the orient and its’ wonderful art forms.
He did continue to do commissioned portrait work throughout these years, and even dabbled in graphic design by doing marketing pieces, and even a little sign painting for some local businesses. In 1995, he got a job offer from an investigator in Houston, and so made a move that would forever change his life.
It was in Texas that he found his wife, his passion for art again, and created a family. They lived in Lewisville for the first five years of their marriage, after his Dad passed away in December of 1999, decided to pursue art as a living. He developed a nice business doing pet portraits and outdoor scenes. His medium of choice is the colored pencil, and during his college days, developed a technique of using the colored pencil on “hot press” illustration board that gives a painted effect. He actually perfected this technique in the late eighties when he was living in Los Angeles, drawing bodybuilder pictures as commissions and art pieces. Always interested in computer graphics, he now does a lot of his illustration work on the computer.
Currently, he and his family live in Missouri City, Texas, where he works from his home studio and workshop. He is a full-time illustrator, part-time carpenter, and currently working on several children’s books which he has written and is illustrating. His true passion has become his rather large Lego collection that he and his son share. Everything is Awesome!