Tim McCormack – Drawing Narratives: People in Urban Spaces (Online); Friday, February 28, 2025

Date: Friday, February 28, 2025
Time: 2:00-3:30PM Pacific Time/5:00-6:30 PM Eastern Time/10:00-11:30 PM London Time
Medium: Sketching with a fountain pen, brush pen, micron, watercolour, gouache, inks

Learn how to capture the lives and stories of people in urban settings both familiar and exotic. Tim will explore drawing people in spaces and places that suggest emotionally resonant narratives, from the quiet moments of subway rides to lively scenes in cafés. Subjects will include drawing people in-scale within both interior and exterior spaces, helping to bring out the character of each setting. This talk touches on the worlds of fashion, illustration and cartoons with an emphasis on spontaneity, style and experimenting with various media. You’ll be introduced to convenient, expressive sketching tools like brush pens, fountain pens, and Posca markers—perfect for capturing quick, engaging snapshots of city life and transforming everyday urban scenes into story-driven art.

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$40.00

Tim McCormack is an accomplished artist with thirty years of teaching experience to college students and adult learners. He was the Lead Instructor in the Figure Drawing Stream in the highly respected Bachelor of Animation Program at Sheridan College for ten years. He has taught portrait and landscape painting, as well as drawing for absolute beginners and background painting for animation. Tim creates landscape, portraiture and figurative art and is inspired by many drawing materials that he finds in and outside art supply stores. A graduate of OCAD, he has had several solo shows of watercolours, oils and pastels. His work is found in private collections.

About Our Technique Takeaways: 

  • Discover techniques you can ‘take away’  from some of your favorite artists and apply to your own work. This one-and-a-half hour presentation will showcase a process that the artist incorporates in their art practice.  Instruction will be through a combination of lecture and demonstration by the artists.
  • If you are unable to attend live over Zoom, you will have access to the recording for 60 days. Technique Takeaways are non-refundable.
  • Once you’ve signed up, you will receive the link to the class page where you will find the Zoom link, class recording and other important information for this class no later than the night before the class.  (Don’t forget to check your junk folder).
  • You can also access the class on our site on your Online Classrooms page.
  • To participate live, you will need a Zoom enabled computer OR iPad/smart tablet OR smart phone (android or IOS) and a strong internet connection.

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