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Did, Saw, Felt: A Process for Narrative Drawing
January 12 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
$266.00A 5-Week In-Studio Workshop!
Sundays, January 12, 19, 26, February 2, and 9, 3-5pm
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About this Workshop:
Join illustrator and cartoonist Lenora Yerkes for a five-part drawing workshop focused on stimulating creativity. You’ll learn techniques for quieting your internal editor, working through creative blocks, and organizing your thoughts into compelling narratives. In the first class, you’ll learn how to develop a daily practice, break out of an artistic rut, and learn inhibition-free techniques for drawing and creating. The remaining four classes will help you put these teachings into practice. The goal is to start you writing or drawing—and then to help you keep creating, no matter where you are or what you do. If you’ve ever wanted to draw or write but think you “can’t,” or if you struggle to create a steady flow of art, this workshop is for you.
Level: All levels welcome – no experience necessary
Registration closes January 8, 2025 and includes a small materials fee to cover the consumable materials provided in class.
Sample images by Lenora Yerkes
CLASS MATERIALS LIST:
Registration includes a $5 materials fee to cover consumable materials provided in class, including paper, index cards, and a Flair felt tipped pen for you to keep. In addition, students may want to bring the following optional items:
- Pencil/pen and notepad for taking additional notes
- Any personal drawing tools you prefer
YOUR INSTRUCTOR:
Lenora Yerkes, a comics artist as well as a painter, draws on both low and high art traditions in creating unreal landscapes and the figures that live in them. Always narrative and often sequential, her paintings rely on metaphor and archetypes to tell disquieting, moody stories about family and the individual.
Her narrative drawings were the subject of her 2019 artist residency at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, her 2022 residency with Short Run Seattle, and recognized by a 2020 Artist Fellowship Grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Her comic “Rage Queen” was included in Drawing Power (Abrams ComicsArts Fall 2019), edited by Diane Noomin, an anthology named by the New York Times one of the best comics of 2019. She is a graduate of the California College of Arts and Crafts, where she was a Yozo Hamaguchi Scholar. She is a member of The Residents Collective, founded in 2022. You can keep up with Lenora at @lenorayerkes on Instagram.
“Good way to encourage drawing every day—great class!”
—Previous workshop participant
“I learned a lot from Lenora and my classmates. Lenora is so knowledgeable, thoughtful, encouraging, and engaging. PLEASE bring her back for more comics classes!”
—Workshop participant, Autobiographical Comics with Lenora Yerkes