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Updated: 7.23.2009

TIM BEAVIS
RESUME

My paintings are constructed on plywood panel on wood stretchers, after which I apply a gesso soaked paper screeted on like you are hanging wallpaper. The gesso acts as a glue to affix the paper to the panel and to keep the surface PH neutral or archival. When the paper is dry to touch, I begin to work charcoal or other forms of graphite into the gessoed surface. The silver paint that you see in some of my finished paintings is my idea of graphite in much larger quantities. The next step is applying varying thickness of oil paint. Sometimes thinned with turpentine other times thick and applied with a putty knife. Most paintings are also infused with paper put on with gesso; this allows me to accentuate certain movements within the painting. (i.e. vertical or horizontal) The final surface in some areas consists of thicker oil paint and oil sticks suffused with # 4 or # 2 pencils.