Sassy is what makes your art STAND OUT from the dull mundane repetitious renditions in many art shows around the country.
Being game to step outside your comfort zone in art is the only way to get your painting out of a rut and to move you forward as an artist.
Be Game!
Be Unafraid!
Have a GO at a new medium,
A new genre,
Or a different style!
Or colour palette!
You never know, it may make your work SING!!!
I am NOT and never will be a COOKIE-CUTTER Painter!!
I paint ORIGINALS!!
I am NOT a painting SAUSAGE MACHINE !!
Strong words but I have always prided myself on being unique. I do not repeat paintings and I do not like some artists turn out the same tree, the same hill, with the only difference being the house in the distance. I design my paintings from the beginning, choose the appropriate colours, composition, time of day, painting style realist or contemporary, the genre, and the mood/ feeling of the painting.
Yes I do use photographs as reference and yes I do get inspiration from other artist's work but I do no do copies ie. stroke for stroke. I
I paint my way and I guess this makes it difficult to tell if my work is immediately a Kerry Anne.
I have never set out to have specific style but I think there is a commonality in my paintings that makes them recognisable as mine
I believe that it is essential for an artist to be rounded.
And by that I mean you should have many outlets for your creativity or as they say in the classics more than one string to your bow.
You may also be a gifted writer, wood-carver, musician, designer, or like me, a sculptor/crafter.
Since I was in high school I have also loved writing-short stories, lots of poetry, and in later life novels.
I have completed 4 full-length works alongside running my own professional art studio.
I am not superwoman but I wish I was, because then I really would have the WOW factor in bucket loads.
The thing is if I can do it so can YOU.
