CHICAGO
ART
GROUP

Upcoming Events

Mastering the Basics: Fundamentals of Composition Art

Mastering the Basics: Fundamentals of Composition Art

Saturday 02 November
N Clark Street - 10am - 2 Hours
Geanina Zaharia
Dive into the world of composition with our "Mastering the Basics: Fundamentals of Composition Art" class! Perfect for beginners and art enthusiasts, this class will teach you how to create visually stunning and balanced artworks. With fun, hands-on exercises and expert guidance, you'll learn how to arrange elements to create harmony and impact in your art. Bring your basic art materials and get ready to elevate your creative skills. Reserve your spot now, and we'll send you all the event details upon confirmation!
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$47      
Portrait Perfection: Drawing Techniques for Beginners

Portrait Perfection: Drawing Techniques for Beginners

Saturday 23 November
N Clark Street - 10am - 2 Hours
Geanina Zaharia
Join us for "Portrait Perfection: Drawing Techniques for Beginners," where you'll learn to capture the essence of a face with confidence and skill! Perfect for both beginners and enthusiasts, this class will guide you through essential techniques to create lifelike and expressive portraits. With expert tips and step-by-step instructions, you'll be amazed at how quickly your skills improve. Bring your basic art materials and get ready for a fun, creative journey. Reserve your spot today, and we'll send you all the event details upon confirmation!
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$47      

Other Nearby Groups

Outdoor Portraits

Outdoor Portraits

Sunday 20 October
Eastlake Terrace, Chicago - 12:30pm - 3 Hours
Chicago Photography Group
Caitlin KellyThompson
This meetup goes over some basic dos and don'ts for posing and looks at issues to do with shooting in daylight for the best results. Included are: shooting different body types, men, women and shooting with strong sunlight and shooting in shade, and designing your background (composition). On this meet,up you are encouraged to bring along family or friends as models.

You will preferably need a normal, 85mm or longer lens, or a zoom. If you have a wide-angle this can also be used as we will be also looking at environmental portraits.

This is the perfect meetup to learn how to take the perfect portraits of family and friends.
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$47      
Headshot Photography Meetup

Headshot Photography Meetup

Sunday 27 October
N Humboldt Dr, Chicago - 12pm - 2 Hours
Chicago Photography Group
Caitlin KellyThompson
A headshot is a tightly framed face shot, typically from the shoulders up. The goal of your headshot is to clearly & creatively showcase your client's professionalism, personality, and brand. As a class, we will focus on creating headshots from the chest up with good lighting on your model's face.
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$47      
Beginner's Crochet Class

Beginner's Crochet Class

Saturday 02 November
Uptown - 10am - 3 Hours
Chicago Crochet Club
Claire Rooney
If you are brand new to crochet, haven't picked up a hook in years, or simply want a little more guidance on all those important basic stitches this is the class for you. We will start with techniques for holding the yarn before moving onto forming the stitches that make up a traditional granny square. Crochet materials are included as well as a free tea or coffee.
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$75      

Portraiture with Natural Light Photography Meetup

Portraiture with Natural Light Photography Meetup

Sunday 10 November
N. Cannon Dr., Chicago - 12:30pm - 2 Hours
Chicago Photography Group
Caitlin KellyThompson
This class is your time to learn and gain a proper understanding of Composition and the importance of light to help boost your photography skills.

We, as a class, will be photographing a model without any on-camera flash or strobe photography. Just the available light, we will walk through, troubleshoot, make adjustments and capture a portrait successfully.

We will also learn how to use light modifiers like a reflector to help capture appropriately exposed shots in not-so-great lighting
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$47      
Composition in the Park Photography Meetup

Composition in the Park Photography Meetup

Sunday 17 November
Kilbourn Park, Chicago, IL - 12pm - 2 Hours
Chicago Photography Group
Caitlin KellyThompson
Come and join us as we explore composition in photography.

Composition is one of the most critical element in photography. Composition is how a photographer arranges the visual elements within their image, frame. I promise you that if you search for information on composition you will find plenty You will find formal rules, opinion, some of which you can trace back to historical art movements and painters.

Even in the digital world, composition remains the key to creating strong images. Composition is what guides our eye through an image and gives importance to the subject. It creates the story for the viewer and how we as photographers convey that message.

This meetup will explore composition using our frame and tools available to us as the photographer.
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$47      
Granny Squares

Granny Squares

Saturday 23 November
Uptown - 10am - 3 Hours
Chicago Crochet Club
Claire Rooney
Ready to create stunning granny square blankets or elevate your crochet skills? Join our fun-filled class! Learn the basics of granny square crochet and unleash your creativity. Reserve your spot now for full details upon booking.
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$68      

Architecture Photography

Architecture Photography

Sunday 24 November
West Wacker Dr., Chicago - 12pm - 2 Hours
Chicago Photography Group
Caitlin KellyThompson
Architectural photography can be a great way of exploring and documenting a city, whether it's your home or on holiday. Its about capturing not only the design and accurate representation of a building, but to have the shots be aesthetically pleasing to the viewer's eye. An architectural photographer makes pictures, not takes pictures.

In this session, we will be covering how to better understand Architecture photography and we'll be looking at ways to take some impressive shots and the camera settings to use.
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$47      
Introduction to Tapestry Crochet

Introduction to Tapestry Crochet

Saturday 14 December
Uptown - 10am - 3 Hours
Chicago Crochet Club
Claire Rooney
Dive into the colorful world of tapestry crochet with this beginner-friendly class! Learn the fundamental techniques of this versatile craft as you create beautiful, textured patterns. We'll cover basic stitches, color changes, and finishing techniques. All essential materials are provided, so just bring your enthusiasm and creativity! Perfect for those new to crochet or anyone looking to expand their skills.
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$75      
Winter Light Photography

Winter Light Photography

Sunday 15 December
E Ohio St. Chicago - 3pm - 3 Hours
Chicago Photography Group
Caitlin KellyThompson
Bundle up and lets explore in the cold and capture the cozy and subtlety of the lighting seen in this winter.

In this workshop, we will explore the art of capturing the beauty and magic of the winter season through photography.

Our experienced instructor will guide you through the process of understanding and applying the principles of photography, including composition, exposure, and lighting. We will cover topics such as using natural light to create a mood, capturing the sparkle of snow and ice, and experimenting with different angles and perspectives to create striking images.
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$92      

ABOUT CHICAGO
ART
GROUP
Come along to our meetups to improve your art in a relaxed and social atmosphere, and under the guidance of a professional instructor. Complete beginners to experienced artists all welcome.

Our 2 hour meetups are held in a different location each time, usually outdoors.

Bring your own materials which can be anything from pencils or pastels, to watercolour or oils.

If you are a complete beginner all you need to start are a couple of good drawing pencils, a rubber, and a drawing pad.

Who can attend? Open to all skill levels, from beginners to experienced artists. The instructor is there to help everyone.

The meeting point and full details for the day are sent in the booking confirmation email to the email address you provide at time of booking.

Join the Facebook Group here to share your art and enjoy the art of other locals.

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Our meetups and classes are limited to a max of 12 people
REVIEWS
Zaharia Geanina was really good sharing her knowledge, explaining clear and showing a lot of patience while providing instruction. I will definitely recommend her classes.
5/5
Marcela
2024-03-13
Very informative!
5/5
Kathleen
2024-02-18
ARTISTS
Geanina Zaharia
I'm a Romanian artist who loves creation, imagination, colors, peace, and beauty in art. I have studied different techniques of arts throughout years such as illustrations, portraits, art compositions, traditional techniques (pencil, ink, painting), digital techniques (2D illustration, graphic design), and also 3d modeling and animation in Autodesk Maya for my art degree. Now I'm trying to find my own path and create something beautiful using all information I learned these years!
My focus is at the moment to graphite pencil portrait drawings and realism, this is what I did in the last two years and still working in this area.

Geanina Zaharia is available for private bookings

PHOTOS
Chicago Art Group
2023-10-09
Chicago Art Group
2024-10-13
Title or Location: The rays of hope
I've always been fascinated by clouds and sunray and also love to paint them
Credit: Romica Tapoi

Chicago Art Group
2024-09-20
Title or Location: Breathtaking Blues
Breathtaking Blues captures the essence of late Summer heat with an early Autumn breeze, where sweltering heat makes an encore performance?showing off the late flower blooms alongside the early colors beginning to make a glimmering appearance. One season is ending and another beginning. But for now, we are in this one single moment, feeling the enchantment of both.
Credit: Jennifer Scott
Melbourne Art Group
2024-10-01
Chicago Art Group
2024-08-25
Title or Location: Rye field
Growing up in the country side, I always loved the endless fields of rye, sunflower, corn etc. Loved the sound of birds and wildlife and also the peacefulness of the rest of the world.
Credit: Romica Tapoi

Knoxville Art Group
2024-09-23
Chicago Art Group
2024-08-13
Title or Location: Sunset in Danube Delta
Every since I was younger I've been fascinating with sunsets and sunrises. It's something magical about it and I spent a lot of time watching them.
Credit: Romica Tapoi
Knoxville Art Group
2024-09-23

Chicago Art Group
2024-06-14
Title or Location: Somewhere in Chicago land
Oil on stretched canvas 24 x 36 inches.
Credit: Edelweiss Cobblestone
Facebook: Edelweiss Cobblestone
Instagram: @edelweiss_cobblestone
Knoxville Art Group
2024-09-23
Chicago Art Group
2024-06-01
Title or Location: Jane Goodall, portrait
Jane Goodall is a 90 years old pioneer in the study of chimpanzees in Tanzania, Africa when she arrived in 1960. To understand and gain trust in understanding of everyday chimpanzee behavior she used different methods including spending time in the trees and eating their foods. Dr, Jane Goodall found that chimpanzees have emotions, use tools and eat meatIn 1977, she founded the Jane Goodall Institute to support the research in Gombe and scale up the protection of chimpanzees in their habita
Credit: Geanina
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zaharia.geanina.5
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zahariageaninamaria/?hl=en

Knoxville Art Group
2024-09-23
Melbourne Art Group
2024-10-14
Title or Location: Contemplation
I try to capture my own feelings in my work. To help draw people to relate in my art work. Charcoal on paper.
Credit: Adrian perry
Knoxville Art Group
2024-10-13
Title or Location: Spirit of Autumn (In Moonlight)
I just wanted a kind of haunting moonlit fall scene with a tree overlooking a babbling little creek with a couple of small waterfalls. This is one of my favorite paintings that I have painted since I started painting in February.
Credit: Josh Gregory
Facebook: Josh Gregory
Instagram: joshgregory816

Oklahoma City Art Group
2024-10-12
Title or Location: Minco, ok
Wife modeled for it at the horse barn on my ranch.
Credit: Tom Simonton
Belfast Art Group
2024-10-10
Title or Location: Yellow rose

Credit: Karina Petrova
Philly Art Group
2024-10-09
Title or Location: Smell the rain?
Oil sketch, 11?x14?. This is my first attempt with oils after a 38 year career as an exhibit designer. Started with quick turp washes, then built up some detail. I was going to continue, but I kind of like it the way it is. Anxious to start another, and having fun.
Credit: John McKeon

Baltimore Art Group
2024-10-08
Title or Location: Wooden Wave
This piece is acrylic on wood. I used some scrap pieces I had cut from the end of a wooden board I was using. The actual wave and cliff are from where the knot in the board had separated. As soon as I saw it I knew what I was going to do with it. This is two pieces of wood, individually painted and then screwed together. I love upcycling these scraps.
Credit: Tom Hale
Facebook: @openlotusart
Instagram: @tomhaleartwork
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