Drawing Space and Form (tuition-free, five-session workshop)

Adult Tuition-Free Class | This program is completed

All levels welcome, recommended for beginners.

2/14/2023-3/14/2023

6:00 PM-8:00 PM EDT on Tue

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$15.00

Learn techniques and concepts to enhance the illusion of three-dimensional form, and depth of space in your drawings, using linear perspective. Once you are drawing several objects in relationship to each other in space, you are already dealing with perspective whether you realize it or not! We will discuss and practice exploring in scale change, overlap, and line variation, value, composition, as well as the basic concept of one-point perspective. You will learn to draw from observation and complete practice lessons using photocopied images. The still life setup and the beautiful Fleisher Sanctuary will be additional sources of study.

• Participants must have a valid Fleisher membership.

  • This is an in-person class which will take place in our building with strict social distancing protocols and reduced student capacity. Please see our COVID-19 community safety policies.
  • • 14” x 17” white drawing paper pad or equivalent
  • • Drawing pencils: HB, B, 2B, 6B, 2H
  • • Pencil sharpener
  • • Kneaded eraser
  • • Hard eraser such as white plastic eraser
  • • A set of compressed charcoal
  • • A charcoal pencil
  • • 12 - 18 inch ruler
  • • Scotch tape

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.