Introduction to Drawing

Adult Class | This program is completed

All levels welcome.

9/12/2019-11/14/2019

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

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$285.00

$255.00

$20.00

$15.00

This class is recommended for anyone coming to Fleisher with no previous instruction or experience.

You will learn step-by-step instructions on how to begin a drawing. You will learn about sighting techniques, negative space, visual measurements and the use of guidelines. We will start by drawing from Xerox copies of flat geometric shapes. In each class you will build on your skills and begin drawing from life, both single objects and a still life with multiple objects. We will work primarily in pencil and charcoal.

  • Concepts covered include composition, design, tone, line, and perspective.
  • Required supplies for this program:
  • • 18” x 24” White drawing paper pad or equivalent, Blick or
  • Strathmore
  • • Drawing Pencils: HB, B, 2B, 2H
  • • Pencil sharpener
  • • Kneaded eraser
  • • White plastic eraser: Mars Staedlter
  • • 12 - 18 inch ruler
  • • Scotch tape (optional)
  • • 2 9x12" pieces of tracing paper
  • Bull Dog Clips or Painter’s Tape ½”
  • Soft Vine Charcoal – pack of three
  • White and Black stick of each, soft Conte Crayon
  • Black and White print of a photo of a Landscape for first day of class; Prefer an image you made as opposed to a google search. Look for a strong sense of light. We will discuss further on first day.

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.