Isobel

Happy Easter everyone!

This is another recent piece. It's actually very small. The story behind it is basically this, I was just chilling to some Bjork and trying to get my creative juices flowing and I just found this in one of the songs, hence the title, Isobel. I wanted the colors to be really deep and expressive. The black sort of framing was an afterthought, and really now, I kind of regret it. 

Colored pencils and pen on paper.

Moss

Hey everyone! Happy April!

This isn't too old. I started with a pencil sketch of it a couple months ago and slowly began coloring it with Prismacolor colored pencils. I wanted this to be more realistic looking compared to my other mermaids, but with the same basic concept. Anyway, I titled it Moss after the colors I used in it. 

Colored pencils on a 9" x 12" sheet of paper.

Pockets Full of Stones

Hey everyone!
So I did this I think last week. It's very much inspired by Florence + The Machine's new music. There is some music that can just completely inspire me and Florence is on that list, along with Radiohead and many others. Anyway, I did this with no references, so I'm really actually very proud of that part. Then, I painted it and it all sort of went downhill from there. It took me a while to decide if I should post it or not, but yeah...
 It was first sketched out in pencil, then some things were colored with Prismacolour colored pencils. Lastly, I painted it in Winsor & Newton watercolours.

Gave Me Feathers

This is something I worked on with long breaks all throughout last week. It doesn't really have a meaning, but it was inspired by a discussion in one of my classes. If you were to ask me what the discussion was, I wouldn't be able to tell you because I can't even remember what it was about. Anyway, this is a bit of a different drawing for me, I feel.
Drawn out in pencil and painted in Winsor & Newton watercolours on about a 9" x 6" paper.

Photos Anyone?

Hey you guys! I thought I'd give you a little taste of what my photography is like. I like to think of myself as more of a Surreal/Abstract photographer, but I love taking pictures of all sorts of different things.

Before you go making judgments and things, know this, I've never had even a basic lesson about what makes a good photo. I have only used what I know about art and how to use cameras and color as my lead for all of the photos that I take. I thought maybe you'd want to know that. Especially since a lot of people who see my photography a lot, don't even know that, I don't think. Anyway, please enjoy! If you find yourself interested in prints or anything I have some sites where they are available and I will make my own as well. These are my more recent pictures....

The Narcissist

 

It's a loooovely Sunday afternoooon.

Yes, you should have sang that.

Anyway, I did this one a while ago. It's one of my most popular ones. It's a peacock! Because, well, peacocks are awesome.

I doodled it in pencil, because really it was just going to be a doodle. And then later colored it in Prismacolour colored pencils. Lastly, I outlined it in drawing pens.

It will be on sale around the same time as the cats, because I need to figure out its measurements too and I'm lazily procrastinating that again.

A Note About Cats

 

So, everyone. These are my notorious cats. I can't draw cats normally very well and one day a friend of mine asked me to draw her a cat... So, I came up with a new way of drawing them and that's what started the lovely blank-eyed cats. These are just a few of them. 

The bottom one is actually done in a pattern from a peacock I drew a while back. It bled onto the back of a page when I drew a cat. So I used that outline to do the strange psychedelic pattern. 

Just some random information I thought I'd share with you guys about some of my more popular work.

Jigsaw

Forgot to post this too...
This is my second triangle mosaic page! The goal is to fill a page completely using small multicolored triangles. It's pretty relaxing, surprisingly enough. I've done one of these before, but I was bored one day and thought I'd do another one. This one took a lot more time than the first; about 3 weeks or so. The first one only took one.
Anyway it's on a 9" x 12" sheet of paper. Drawn in pencils and colored in Crayola markers.

Artist's Trading Cards

Happy Saturday!

These are Artist Trading Cards! Exciting stuff, right? They're on pretty small pieces of paper kind of like card size. Of course. I was kind of dumb and wrote on the back of this first one...

One of the rules of Artist's Trading Cards is never sell them, only trade them!

South Jordan Chalk Art Festival

  Here are some photos of my entry in the South Jordan Chalk Art Festival. My team consisted of a friend and I, but we also had quite a lot of help from her husband. It went from 9 A.M. to about 8 P.M. Ours was on a 5' x 5' square of cement. It was lots of fun and a lot of hard work. 

Below are a few different views of the finished project. We placed second in the Adult Region competition.

The Owl

This was also for Jessica. It was a thank you gift from my parents... Because they can't really thank themselves? I don't know, but I did it. Owls are awesome.
Also watercolors and pencil on a 9" x 12" art block paper.

Cool For Cats

Hello, everyone!
It's been a while now, I think. I apologize for that. This is actually quite an old piece. I simply did it in pencil and then used colored pencil to outline? I actually draw these kinds of cats all of the time. This is particularly inspired by an old song called "Cool For Cats"
9" x 12" paper, of course.

Harlequinn

Woohoo for Fridays!
So... This is a drawing inspired by clowns, obviously. My first time bothering with Crayola markers. I'd say not too bad of a thing to use for drawing...
9" x 12" paper.

Swimming in the Colors

Another one of my first acrylic paintings. One thing you should know about me, is that I absolutely love to splatter and make a mess when I'm painting something. I just get so excited when all of the colors start to come together or something. It's weird. The fish was finger-painted and the rest was pretty much just splattered.
Done in acrylics.
9" x 12" paper.

Afternoon

This is one of my first acrylic paintings. I was more just experimenting with how the colors worked and how they mixed together. I was lacking inspiration, so I just went for what I felt like.
Done in acrylic paint with water.
9" x 12" paper.

Seascape

It's a Tuesday night. How... Fantastic!
So this is definitely not one of my favorites by me. The photo of it doesn't do it much more justice.
I am a bit of an insomniac and on the tendencies that I do get sleep, I have very vivid and usually disturbing dreams. Sometimes the dreams fuel my artwork. If you're wondering what this has anything to do with this painting, well, I painted this in the course of two nights when I couldn't sleep.
Fish and marine life--and, well, water, in general--have always been an interest of mine. We have two salt water tanks in our house, so I've had a great opportunity to learn about these types of fish and other life forms. This completely isn't as pretty and amazing as the coral and fish get, but hey.
Went a little long there... Whoops.
Anyway, this was painted in acrylics and oils.
9" x 12" canvas board.

Mermaid

This was for a little friendly competition, if you'd like to call it that. It's one of my first mermaids. They're some of my more popular work. I really love both eerie and beautiful styles of depictions of mermaids, so I tried hard to combine the two.
This was sketched out in pencil, then colored in watercolor pencils and painted over in watercolor paints.
9" x 12" watercolor paper.
Original is on sale for $40.

(C) Kenzie Pulley 2011