Drawing with Confidence

Adult Class | This program is completed

All levels welcome.

9/11/2019-11/13/2019

1:00 PM-4:00 PM EDT on Wed

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$285.00

$255.00

$30.00

$15.00

Designed for students who already have a grasp of basic drawing techniques, this class takes you deeper into form, structure, and expression. Students will be learning key concepts such as atmospheric perspective, detailed rendering, intermediate perspective, use of color, and combining materials. Each class features a directed exercise designed to be used for more complex subject matter. This class is intended for those who are looking to take their drawing to the next level.


WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS COURSE
1. Make detailed rendered value drawing of real objects
2. Create volumetric drawing using light and dark in multiple mediums
3. Create foreground, middle ground, and background
4. Handle complicated subjects and correctly place groups of objects
5. Begin to develop an understanding of decisive, quick sketching

  • Required supplies for this program:
  • FOR THE FIRST CLASS BRING THESE SUPPLIES:
  • • Soft vine charcoal
  • • Kneaded eraser
  • • 18” x 24” Strathmore SKETCH Pad or similar white pad
  • OTHER SUPPLIES TO BE DISCUSSED ON THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS:
  • • Charcoal pencils (range of soft to hard)
  • • White drafting eraser
  • • Graphite drawing pencils: HB, 2B, 4B
  • • Charcoal drawing pad 18x24”
  • • 9 x 12” pad of toned paper (one size bigger is fine too)
  • • Paper towels
  • • Nupastel prismacolor set (rembrandt and sennelier is fine too)
  • • One small palette knife
  • • Small blending brush
  • • Ruler

Michelle Oosterbaan is a visual artist based in Philadelphia. Recently she held several residencies across Northern Europe including the Cite des Arts International in Paris. Oosterbaan’s artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues that include The Drawing Center New York, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, The Delaware Art Museum, and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka. She is a Great Rivers Biennial winner (2008 St. Louis, MO) and published in FUKT, A Drawing Journal (2009, Berlin). She has also has received grants from Center for Emerging Arts (2014), the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (2004), and the Leeway Foundation (2001) among others. Oosterbaan was awarded residencies at The MacDowell Colony (2004) and Yaddo (2005, 2003), as a John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur fellow, in addition to invitations to VCCA, (2009, 2006). Her work investigates signs and symbols of time and spirit and the theatre of space and color. She earned a BFA from Washington University as a Fred Conway Scholar in painting / printmaking and an MFA from Indiana University and studied painting at SACI at Cleveland Institute of Art in Florence Italy. Last summer, she collaborated with The Mural Arts Program to design and install a site-specific color-based mural in Germantown titled Kalpavriksha: The Tree of Life. She is returning to Philadelphia after teaching painting and drawing at Bowdoin College and Bucknell University as a visiting professor. This spring she is teaching a drawing course Natural Forms and the Human Body in the University of the Arts Undergraduate CORE Program.