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Expressive Watercolor with Michelle Oosterbaan

Expressive Watercolor with Michelle Oosterbaan

$250.00
Watercolor is a wonderful painting medium due to its vibrant and translucent nature, quick drying time, and easy set-up and clean-up.  Explore this versatile medium a supportive and immersive environment! Focus will be color theory and brush work demonstrations as we explore the basics of color mixing, layering washes and a sense of touch.  Painting from natural subject matter including still life, botanical studies and landscape.  Drawing experience is helpful but not required.

Date:  6 weeks, Friday, March 6 - April 10, 2026
Time:  10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Fee:  $250
Register by:   February 26 (space is limited)
** Sign up with a friend and receive 10% off both registrations.  Use discount code ClassWinter26 at checkout. 

Michelle Oosterbaan holds a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis as a Fred Conway Scholar and an MFA from Indiana University with postgraduate studies in Florence, Italy. Her fascination with light, chroma, and land is rooted in her studies of plein-air painting as a teenager in Washington D.C. She has had the privilege of exhibiting nationally and internationally at over 40 locations including The Drawing Center and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). She has been awarded numerous grants and community based public art commissions. She is currently collaborating with Charlotte Griffin, Professor of Dance, at the University of California, Irvine and Jaime Cano of Grey Hare films on a cinematic video series, Impromptu, to animate her drawings with student dance. Her residency fellowships include the Cite des Arts International Paris, MacDowell, and Yaddo as John T. and Catherine E. MacArthur Fellow.