Picture This: Turning Children's Stories into Visual Wonder

Artist/Instructor: Jennifer Koury

Sunday, November 2 & 9

12:00–3:00 PM

Fee: Members $90, Not-yet members $120

Participants bring their own supplies

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Illustrate a fairytale, an alternate author’s work, or a passage from your own writing in your unique style, with guidance from Jennifer Koury, a published children’s book author and illustrator. This mixed-media-based workshop series encourages participants to explore storytelling through visual art. You’ll begin to learn layout techniques with book design in mind: considering size and proportion, the repetition of color or shapes for rhythm and design, and the integration of typography. Please bring your favorite children’s book of any type or genre to share with the class for inspiration and to spark discussion. Feel free to use watercolor, drawing, pastel, ink, collage, or any other media you enjoy working with. All art supplies must be provided by the participant.

Jennifer Koury
Jennifer Koury is a Buffalo-based artist, freelance illustrator, and arts educator. She is affiliated with The Roycroft Campus, Springville Center for the Arts, and the Burchfield Penney Art Center’s International Center for Watercolor. Jennifer has taught a weekly series of watercolor workshops inspired by Suddenly I Awoke: The Dream Journals of Charles E. Burchfield. She is represented by Meibohm Fine Arts, East Aurora, NY. In 2022, her works were featured in Luminance, a four-person watercolor exhibit at Meibohm Fine Arts. In 2023, Koury’s plein air paintings inspired by Emery Park’s old-growth forest were highlighted in a two-person exhibition, Whose Woods These Are, at Springville Center for the Arts. She has exhibited her paintings in both solo and group shows and won awards, including being a finalist in the Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Her art is featured in the NFWS Mary Whyte Gallery Walk video, George Washington's Mount Vernon Visitor Center, and Yuma Regional Medical Center in Arizona. Her illustrations appear in many children's books as well as volumes for adults. She is a member of the Buffalo Society of Artists, and a signature member of the Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society and a signature member of the Baltimore Watercolor Society. She holds degrees in painting and printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia, and Art Center College of Design, California.