It was a great relief to her handlers that Lizzie “Bullseye” McCorquodale is considering retiring from Control. It was her mad skills as a creative genius that catapulted her to fame & fortune, but seriously risked revealing her actual identity as an undercover arts agent.
Not only is she accomplished in plein air, watercolour, digital, oil & acrylic painting, but she’s also very capable in ceramics, silversmithing and crocheting. Not to mention skills as a jazz vocalist, guitarist, percussionist, and a badass wig-wearing bass player. Her handlers pleaded with her to remain incognito, but her fate was threatened by her leopard skin clothing and devotion to rhinestones. Lizzie’s current assignment is to infiltrate Chaos as a scenic artist in the film industry and report back to Control. She may appear innocent and harmless, but her relentless creativity and resourcefulness grant her access to the most clandestine inner circles.
Of course, her rise to stardom began modestly in a small border town, playing guitar at Leaping Lizards Luncheonette and Cafe. Her guitar clenched in one hand, and a Windsor Newton paintbrush in the other, she found herself travelling the world and honing her creative genius. There are just not enough hours in a day for Ole Bullseye!
-Written by her husband, Don
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Which ’hood are you in?
Depends if I’m working or not.
Working: My Construction Department Buyer husband and I live part-time in film-centric Burnaby, B.C., close to Deer Lake Park, and about a block from Hwy #1, which puts me within about 25 minutes of many studios & any Film locations in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia.
Not working: Nanoose Bay, Vancouver Island, BC. It’s quiet. And green.
What do you do?
For work: I’m an IATSE 891 Paint Dept. Scenic Artist, which means briefly that I paint movie sets.
More specifically, during the prep time that runs up to the camera shooting schedule, I like to work in the Paint shop or anywhere the sets happen to be – in the studio stages or on locations…
And then when the shooting crew starts up, I become the Stand- by painter. Which means wherever the camera crew goes – in the studios or on locations, there I go….and I stand by, with a walkie-talkie, listening with an earbud in my ear to the goings on and waiting to hear Lizzie Paint! When the director or director of photography needs something that they see through the camera lens changed somehow. Wall and door trim too bright? I need to take it down a tone or two…. a logo on the bumper of a picture car? I need to cover it up with another piece of vinyl or paint it out with a matching colour…. this appliance in the kitchen too shiny? I need to choose a product to spray on it or roll on it to make sort of matte, so it’s not jumping out at the eye when you glance at the scene. And this usually happens within about a 6-minute time frame and a foot or 2 from the camera, surrounded by about 25 other crew members lurking in the dark. Fun!
What are you currently working on?
A full-length A24 Production movie called “October”.
When I’m not busy working in film, I go to Vancouver Island and retreat to my house that my husband and I have – a haven from the madness of film production.
And then when I’m there, I get to go out to my studio and immerse myself in my favourite pastimes of drawing and painting & making things, sometimes from silver and sometimes from polymer clay.
My last project was a series of acrylic and mixed media abstract paintings, which were featured in Glass City by the Painter8 Society in November.
Where can we find your work?
I guess you could find some of my work in a lot of TV shows and a couple of movies… a list of which can be found on my website, which also contains lots of other examples of my work and a handful of projects.
