Eola Road Branch
People, buildings, cars, animals, the faraway, and the imaginary: what would you like to draw better?? Join artist Gene Ha to explore art as a process of observation, experiment, and play. Grades 6+.
Gene will teach you how to draw ANYTHING! Give an artist a pencil, paper, a camera phone, and a few simple principles and watch them draw anything. Add a web browser and their imagination, and they can even draw the faraway and the imaginary!
Artist Biography
Gene Ha is the artist on Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons Vol 2 with writer Kelly Sue DeConnick, from DC Comics. He has won four Eisner awards for his art including Alan Moore’s Top 10 and sundry Marvel & DC superhero comics. Gene also writes and draws Mae from Oni Press. The story of Mae Fortell, a girl who follows her long missing sister Abbie to a world of mad science and mystery. Gene lives outside Chicago in Berwyn, IL with his lovely wife Lisa.
Check out Gene’s recent profile in Chicago Magazine, and check out the full CAPE Con schedule here!
AGE GROUP: | Teens - ages 12-18 |
EVENT TYPE: | Popular Culture | General Interest | Featured Event |
A state-of-the-art center for technology, information, literacy creativity and community. Equipped with a Makerspace, local history and genealogy room, teen space, and study rooms.