Drawing in Color

Adult Class | This program has been canceled

New Offering! All levels welcome.

4/16/2020-6/18/2020

10:00 AM-1:00 PM EDT on Th

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$285.00

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Discover the vibrancy and realism you can achieve with color pencil! Topics include descriptive and expressive line quality, color
relationships, cross-hatching and layering, capturing light and volume, and working on colored and textured papers. Subjects
include still life, the portrait, figure in interiors, live animals, and master copies. Basic drawing experience required.

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS COURSE
• 1. Training the eye to see color.
• 2. to render light, space, and surface.
• 3. Learning the science of color theory and diverse applications of color pencil.

  • Start the term with these supplies:
  • • Prismacolor colored pencil set, assorted colors, set of 12
  • • 2H, B and 4B pencils
  • • White drawing paper pad, 11x14 in. to 14x17 in. or similar
  • • Kneaded eraser
  • • White plastic eraser
  • • Sharpener
  • Midway through the term students will need these supplies:
  • • Strathmore 400 series toned mixed media drawing pad, 11x14 in., 15 sheets
  • • prism color colorless blender pencil
  • • Optional Papers: experiment with different surfaces besides your standard drawing pad to be cut down from 22” x 30” White or Cream or Black both : (1) Arches Cover, (1) Arches 88 or (1) Stonehenge Smooth Hot Press, Pastel Paper Mi-Tienes Paper (free choice, pastel...all color will have some white mixed in!!! Chose (1) warm ((yellows, oranges, pinks)) and (1) cool ((blue, greens, violets))
  • • Cotton Rags, cut up t shirts, towels or Leather Chaomis, Masking Tape or 2 Office Clips / Silver Bulldog Clips to keep paper still
  • • SUPPLY BOX (shoe box, freezer bags ziplock, Tray to hold pencils (cookie sleeves, enamel tray, rectangular take-away plastic container), PORTFOLIO (to hold paper flat, Blick Cardboard Portfolio that you get when you buy paper is fine, make your own)

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.