Comics & Cartooning class
Student’s hand drawings from the Drawing Fundamentals class
About the studio
Young Artists' Place is a visual arts studio in South Burnaby. Located at the intersection of Royal Oak and Rumble, the studio offers art classes to kids and teens in Burnaby and the greater Vancouver area.
Here's what you can expect from our programs:
Committed and qualified instructors.
Our instructors are all professional working artists who have received post-secondary training in art. We are all highly committed to our craft, and we demonstrate and share our own techniques.
Concrete steps and skills.
For students aged 8 and younger, we teach in a step-by-step method, providing structure and encouraging students to develop observation, and confidence.
For students aged 9 and older, we teach fundamental drawing & painting principles, so that they gain the skills needed to express their own creativity, instead of only being able to copy others’ drawings.
In a typical lesson, students are encouraged to make their own creative decisions, while at the same time practicing the art techniques we talked about.
Very small class sizes.
Young Artists’ Place classes have a maximum of 6 students in one class.
About the owner
Janice Liu has been teaching art for children for over 10 years. She attended the Maryland Institute College of Art and currently works as a professional comic artist. Her clients as an artist include: CBC, University of Toronto, and the City of Vancouver.
Janice has enjoyed bringing art programs to Burnaby Public Library, Vancouver Public Library, Deaf Youth Today, and other community centres all across the Vancouver area. She is a former art instructor at Place des Arts in Coquitlam.
Janice’s graphic novel, Chicken Soup & Goji Berries 中药鸡汤, was a 2020 Excellence in Graphic Literature Award finalist, and a Gene Day Award nominee. She was also one of the artists in Shuster Award-winning Wayward Sisters: An Anthology of Monstrous Women. You can find both these books in Burnaby Public Library’s comics collection!
Instructors
Haley Perry
Haley is an imagination machine who graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a Bachelor's in Illustration and an Honourable Mention for her grad piece. She has been drawing and painting all her life, constantly chasing the next thing to guide her interest.
Haley takes part in gallery shows, works on private commissions, and takes on editorial illustration work for local magazine publications. With a focus on traditional media, Haley creates work that is surreal, whimsical, and often dark. She spends almost half her time drawing from life or photo references to learn and perfect the rules of drawing realistically, just to bend and break them in order to create works of art that are unique, imaginative, and full of emotion.
Haley teaches Drawing & Painting, Realistic Drawing, Sketching, and private art lessons.
Divya George
Divya George has an Master of Arts in Illustration and works with both traditional and digital tools.
Her illustrations have been featured in a diversity of commercial projects, including packaging, posters, wall murals, and children’s apparel. She also illustrates picture books and loves the process of developing appealing characters, visually conveying narratives, and bringing stories to life through art. Her work can be seen on her website.
Divya teaches Drawing & Painting, Mixed Media, and private art lessons.
Anna Be
Anna has attained a BFA in Visual Art and is currently achieving her MA in Art History, with a focus on Curation.
Combining her self-taught and high level academic visual art knowledge, Anna is an all-rounded artist who is skilled in working with traditional and digital art mediums, and is confident in implementing various artistic approaches.
Anna teaches Mixed Media, Nerdy Crafts, and private digital art lessons.
Chelsea Bell Eady
Chelsea has a Bachelor of Design in Communication Design with a minor in Social Practice + Community Engagement from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. As a post-secondary instructor, she has also taught the next generation of web developers and designers at BCIT. Chelsea has been sewing for more than twenty years, and has created custom costumes, bags, structured baby carriers, and sewing patterns.
Professionally, Chelsea is the Principal Designer at C.B. Eady Creative Associates. She is a multi-disciplinary design professional who focuses on process-driven design. She works in digital, print, textiles, and analog mediums, and specializes in developing brand stories, print pieces, web designs, and soft product development. Her pronouns are she/her.
Chelsea teaches Sewing.