Workshops

Join a classical painting or drawing workshop at YAFKA Creative Community Centre in Lombok, Utrecht. Small groups, live models and step-by-step guidance — from your first brushstroke to a finished painting.

  • Makassastraat 36, Lombok, Utrecht
  • Small groups
  • All levels welcome
A portrait painting in progress on an easel at the YAFKA studio
Classical Oil Painting Workshop

Classical Oil Painting Workshop

  • 5-session course
  • Weekdays & weekends
  • Materials included

Unlock the timeless art of classical painting. A step-by-step course that takes you from preparing your surface and mixing pigments to a finished painting, working from carefully curated references.

Academical Drawing Workshop

Academical Drawing Workshop

  • Full-day & evening sessions
  • All levels
  • All materials provided

Technical and academical methods to understand the human figure, its simplicities and complexities — using curated references from classical drawings and compositions.

Live Figure Drawing Gathering

Live Figure Drawing Gathering

  • Every other Monday & weekends
  • 19:30 – 22:00
  • All levels welcome

Our live model drawing evenings at YAFKA, always driven and guided by a variety of themes and scenes curated from classical compositions — a warm, inspirational atmosphere in a creative collective.

Open Day Classical Painting Workshop

An afternoon of painting open to everyone. We work through composition, anatomical structure, light and shadow and the chiaroscuro technique — with canvas, paints, brushes and curated references provided by the space. Supported by open donations.

Treatise on the craft of painting

Technical study and analysis of the craft and its evolution through time and philosophy.

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From the studio

Impressions from workshops and open days at YAFKA.

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