Happy Birthday Chicago Artist Forum
Chicago Artist Forum in action
A year ago, Denise Dorman put some ideas into the head of one, Kevin Sandstrom of Dick Blick Art Stores. Next thing you know, a place for artists to gather, show off portfolios, and generally talk shop and fun was born in Wheaton, Illinois. It has now grown to a nice little event that brought out about 30 artists in 0º Chicago weather this past Saturday.
The artists range in experience from 30+ year veterans to folks in their freshmen year in art school. But all of them love to draw and respect the craft, which makes for great discussions and plenty of learning and networking opportunities.
The CAF will have a website soon that will list the upcoming presentations and events. I just did a slideshow/talk on what I learned at the Revelations Symposium in Seattle and coming up are Ray Frenden demoing Manga Studio techniques, Joe Lester on sculpting monsters, and Dave Dorman on traditional painting. Plus, live models!
In the meantime, check out their CAF MySpace page.
Labels: Comic Books, Design, Events, Friends, Illustration
telepathically sent by Charlie at 5:28 PM
1 Comments:
Hey, Im from Calgary too. I found you from looking up the Concept Work shops.
Me and a bunch of people from the Animation studio I work at started a Drink and Draw Sketch night over a year ago.
We are always welcome to new people swinging by and having a beer with us and doing to sketching.
If your interested swing on by to my blog and let me know and ill hand over more details.
Hope to hear from ya
Best
D
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