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# Workshop Series: A Painting as a Composite Material
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Saturday workshop series with Professor Lauchlan Reid, Co-Director of the Sustainable Colour Lab.
Main Building & Rosalie Sharp Centre for Design (MCA) 100 McCaul Street Room MCA 466
November 14, 2026 1 - 5 p.m.
Department Alumni
Cost $100
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Main Building & Rosalie Sharp Centre for Design (MCA) 100 McCaul Street Room MCA 466
November 14, 2026 1 - 5 p.m.
Department Alumni
Cost $100
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### Saturday Workshop Series with Professor Lauchlan Reid
## A Painting as a Composite Material
Presented in a down-to-earth and approachable format, this 3-week, in-depth workshop series with Professor Lauchlan Reid will provide a comprehensive and interactive discussion of the physical properties that determine the quality and longevity of a painting. With detailed examples and qualitative breakdowns of the factors at play with painting supports, grounds, paints, mediums, varnishes, and frames, this series dispels the myths under which many artists operate and provides them the basis to make informed decisions and choices, while providing their artworks a sense of quality and longevity that is otherwise relegated to museums and conservators.
**Dates:**
Saturday, November 14th, 21st & 28th
**Location:**
Room 466
4th Floor, 100 McCaul St.
**Time:**
12:15pm to 1:00pm: Welcome Reception\*
1:00pm to 5:00pm: Workshop
\*Welcome reception will be hosted on November 14th only.
**Cost:**
$100 per person
All materials provided
[**Lauchlan Reid**](https://lauchiereid.format.com/) is an artist, illustrator and educator based in Hamilton and Toronto, Ontario. Founder of noted illustration and art collective Team Macho, Reid's art and design practice spans all media and methodologies, including drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, publishing, animation, and printmaking. Lauchlan is a tenured Associate Professor and former Program Chair of the Illustration Program at OCAD University and is a co-director of the [OCAD U Sustainable Colour Lab](https://www.ocadusustainablecolourlab.ca/), a research initiative aimed at the resurrection of "lost" techniques and materials from natural, historical sources.
**\*Please note: due to limited seats, this series is only open to OCAD U Alumni.**
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