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Virtual Saturday Stories featuring Leo Espinosa
May 20 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Presented monthly, Saturday Stories invites guest illustrators to lead children and their adult companions in a read-aloud workshop related to the wide range of materials and processes that illustrators use to create their picture books.
Meet multi-award winning, Original Art Gold Medalist, illustrator Leo Espinosa! Leo will share a behind the scenes look at how he creates his fantastic illustrations and read from his book, The World Belongs To Us written by best selling author Jacqueline Woodson. Leo will then lead participants in a workshop drawing objects, animals and people from memory, thinking of observation and interpretation as the incredible drawing tools they are! Materials needed are paper and pencils, pens, crayons, color pencils, or whatever you feel comfortable drawing with.
Good for all ages 5 and up.
About the Artist:
Leo Espinosa is an award-winning Illustrator and Designer from Bogotá, Colombia, whose work has been featured in a variety of publications, products, animated series and gallery shows worldwide. His short list includes The New Yorker, The New York Times, the BBC, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Chronicle Books, Swatch, Facebook and Warby Parker. Leo’s work has been recognized by The Society of Illustrators, American Illustration and Communication Arts. His picture books include The World Belonged to Us (by Jacqueline Woodson), Like (By Annie Barrows), The Creature of Habit (By Jennifer Smith) and Islandborn ( by Junot Díaz), the New York Times bestseller for which he received a Pura Belpré Honor. Most days you’ll find him drawing picture books, unless he’s out riding his bike up and down the mountains around Salt Lake City, where he lives with his wife.Visit studioespinosa.com.
