The View of the Tortoise Trainer

School Groups
Middle School

Face-to-Face

What do you see when you look outside your window? Have you ever tried to go to the furthest point you can see from your window and look back at your house or your room? In this workshop we study Osman Hamdi Bey’s Tortoise Trainer and try to imagine the surrounding environment of the painting.  After a guided online tour of the exhibition “Intersecting Worlds: Ambassadors and Painters” and the Osman Hamdi Bey section from the Suna ve İnan Kıraç Foundation Orientalist Painting Collection, we imagine what could be outside of the window depicted in the painting and paint it. 

Materials
Drawing paper
Colored pencils or oil pastels 

Weekday Online Learning Program
Thursday, Friday  

10:00-10:30
10:45-11:15
11:30-12:00  

Online guided tour and workshop participation fee per person for private schools: 100 TL
Online guided tours and workshops are free of charge for public schools.  

Reservation is required for groups, which should include no less than 10 and no more than 60 participants. After confirmation of the reservation, the workshop link will be sent exclusively to the e-mail address submitted during registration.

Related Exhibition: Intersecting Worlds: Ambassadors and Painters, Osman Hamdi Bey

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