Painting The Urban Environment

Adult Workshop | This program is completed

All levels welcome.

5/3/2017-6/7/2017

2:00 PM-5:00 PM EDT on Wed

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$175.00

$155.00

$15.00

Explore Philadelphia’s wonderful varieties of natural and urban settings as you take the plunge into the exciting practice of painting outdoors. Explore different sketching and painting techniques for creating field studies in the cool shade of Fleisher’s Weiss Children's Garden. The class will encourage you to slow down, take notice, experiment with materials, and learn to evoke mood and atmosphere in your plein air paintings of nearby Cianfrani Park, Italian Market, and Rittenhouse Square Park.

What will you learn in this workshop?
1. Develop a personal style for environmental drawing and painting
2. Combine drawing and water based mediums
3. Quick understanding of one and two point perspective
4. Mixing color
5. Assessing and depicting weather and light conditions
6. Taking risks and experiment

  • • Pencils 2B and 2H*
  • • Kneaded eraser*
  • • Paper towels or rags
  • • Mixing dish/dishes or palette*
  • • 2 or more water containers
  • • Sketchbook or sketch paper*
  • • Any water colors you would like to work with (Amy's recommended brands include: Windsor and Newton, Holbein, l'Aquarelle, da Vinci) in tubes or pan; including a blue, a red and a yellow.
  • • Watercolor brushes: round tip – a #4 and a #10 and 1-inch flat brush*
  • • Watercolor paper: block or individual sheets –140lb cold pressed*
  • • Water soluble colored pencils and crayons
  • • Sunscreen
  • • Hat
  • • Small folding chair
  • • Small travel paint box.
  • • Natural sponge (optional)
  • • Liquid masking fluid (optional)
  • • Plastic spray bottle (optional)
  • • Painters Tape (optional)
    Items marked with an * are available for purchase in Fleisher’s school store. Members receive a 10% discount on art supply purchases.

Amy Miller is a prolific artist and educator. She always sets her focus in art community, originally based in Philadelphia but recently relocated to the foothills of California. Teaching classes online is giving her the opportunity to stay connected with the Fleisher community that she misses and loves. Her evocative mixed-media works have been displayed in numerous solo and group exhibitions both regionally and nationally. Throughout her life she has delighted in a strong relationship with pictures. A direct vehicle for communication, they spark ideas, reveal information, and burn memories. She received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2001.