Artists have painted and drawn themselves for centuries, but self-portraits are rarely simple records of appearance. Instead they often become acts of inquiry, storytelling, or artistic declaration.
In this illustrated talk, artist and instructor Tim McCormack explores seven different kinds of self-portrait, from psychological investigations to bold artistic manifestos, narrative studio scenes, and late self-portraits that confront the passage of time.
Along the way we will encounter artists who used self-portraiture to question identity, shape their artistic reputation, or experiment with expressive drawing and painting, including artists such as Édouard Vuillard, and Edgar Degas.
The talk reveals how self-portraiture has often served as a laboratory for portrait drawing, allowing artists to experiment freely with expression, character, exaggeration, and the passage of time.
This session also introduces Tim’s upcoming course on narrative portrait painting and drawing, inspired by French artists from Daumier to Degas which explores portraiture as a creative process that balances observation with interpretation, and likeness with expressive intent.
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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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