Tim McCormack – Painting in Books al Fresco (Online); Friday, March 1, 2024

Date: Friday, March 1, 2024
Time: 2:00-3:30PM Pacific Time/5:00-6:30 PM Eastern Time/10:00-11:30 PM London Time
Medium: Ink & water-based media such as watercolor, gouache and acrylic

Learn Tim McCormack’s approach to staining, priming and glazing the pages of found books with his recipes to create the ultimate responsive surface to work on with ink and water-based media such as watercolor, gouache and acrylic.

Discover how ink lines and brushed paint go down with vibrancy and juiciness and soften beautifully when dry. Adding more layers of paint doesn’t result in a labored surface, but stays fresh.

Tim McCormack loves working on these surfaces to create a variety of painted subjects- portrait figures, cakes and sundaes, figures, and more. It allows him to paint flesh that is fleshier and ice cream that is creamier against backgrounds that resonate.

This approach will help you loosen up your approach and revive your spirits by trying something new and yet so familiar, like the found books you never thought to use as surfaces. It’s unexpected and exciting and gives a vision of new projects to work on with new possibilities.

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. timmccormackdraws.com/