The Way of the Brush: on Painting Skies

Tim McCormack
5 min readJun 13, 2019

Like a massive slab of arctic ice, the cloud is suspended against a distant pale blue backdrop. My eyes scan the horizon, taking in the massive shape over nearby rooftops. I experience it as a cohesive, expansive whole, stretching wide across my field of vision. I have painted hundreds of these skies. With each new sky comes a new experience.

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Tim McCormack

Tim McCormack is an an artist and teaches Figure Drawing in the animation program of Sheridan College www.timmccormackdraws.com