Drawing, Layering and Transparency

When:
Tuesday, Jun 03, 2025 6:30p -
8:00p

Where:
Kathryn Schultz Gallery
25 Lowell Street (rear entrance)
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Admission:
$90

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cambridgeart Cambridge Art Association

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Art, Classes

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Drawing, Layering, and Transparency

Instructor: Michelle Stevens


Date/Time

3 Tuesdays, June 3, June 10, June 17 from 6:30-8pm


Location

Kathryn Schultz Gallery, 25 Lowell St. Cambridge MA


Admission

$90 CAA Members

$110 General Admission


Choose "select date" to register.

Ticket includes all dates: June 3, June 10, June 17


Level

All


Are you an artist looking to expand your drawing toolkit, a regular from our Tuesday night figure drawing sessions wanting more, or simply seeking creative summer fun? The Cambridge Art Association's new three-part "Experiments in Drawing" series is perfect for you. These innovative workshops begin just as our regular figure drawing sessions end for the season, offering a space to discover unexpected techniques, materials, and perspectives that challenge conventional approaches to drawing. Join us to reimagine the possibilities of drawing through playful exploration, regardless of your experience level.


DRAWING, LAYERING, AND TRANSPARENCY

This drawing class will focus on portraiture and figurative work in an experimental light. Through shuffling the composition of our reference images, using our bodies as guidelines, and drawing with multiple mediums, we will explore different executions for depicting images. Each student will leave with new methods of rendering and perspectives about image making.


Session 1: Graphite & Collage

Create dynamic compositions using graphite and magazine imagery.

Session 2: Ink & Layering

Explore depth through ink drawing on layered paper and vellum.

Session 3: Body Mapping

Trace physical forms as guidelines to inform your drawings.


Materials List (bring to first class)


Optional but not required:

- Magazines to take images from

- Personal reference images you are interested in working from

- scissors

- glue stick


Instructor

Michelle Stevens is a 2D artist, Illustrator, and instructor, Michelle holds a BFA in Illustration and a minor in Sustainability from MassArt. She was an Artist-in-Residence in early 2024 at the Cannery Arts Centre in Esperance / Kepa Kurl, Western Australia, and received a Scholarship to attend the MassArt Alumni Retreat at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in October.


She has completed projects for Re:SET Music Festival, Boston Calling Music Festival, Boston Art Review Magazine, Trillium Brewing Company, musician San Holo with his record label Bitbird, and the Canadian National Railway.


Michelle's work has been exhibited at Boston Center for the Arts, 82 Parris in Portland, Maine, Fitchburg Art Museum, and Clark University, among others. She received the 2019 Roddy Drawing Prize at ConcordArt, and has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators NYC. She also teaches at the MFA Boston and Cambridge Center for Adult Education.

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