Date: Saturday, October 24, 2026
Time: 12:45-1:45 pm Pacific time ( 3:45-4:45 pm Eastern time/ 8:45-9:45 UK time)
Level: All levels welcome
Medium: All
Presentation Type: Talk
A face can be painted in colours we recognize, or in colours that change how we feel about the person looking back at us. We often talk about “expressive colour” as though it means one thing. But it can lead a portrait in remarkably different directions. In the work of Matisse and Dufy, colour can create pleasure, rhythm and decorative harmony. In portraits by Munch and Nolde, it can make emotion feel immediate and unsettling.
In this presentation, we’ll look at these approaches side by side. How does colour work when the artist is thinking about the design of the whole picture? What changes when colour seems to come from the emotional life of the subject—or the artist? We’ll also look at other examples, including Kirchner, and consider how these distinct approaches might open up possibilities in our own portraits.
Free!
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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.
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