Kat Powell Artist

Another speed painting captured using Corel Painter this time.   Story time: As the little skelies were traveling through the jungle they came across a tiger that had been attacked by poachers. With great ingenuity and determination the skelies will soon give the tiger back its freedom and its life. Until then the tiger will have to rely on them for survival. For now a simple swim gives the best comfort.

An older image that i captured while painting directly into photoshop cs.

This is part of a series I've recently been working on. Please enjoy my little Skellies! Title: Toys for Tots   This an actual lithograph print, also this is the first in the series of my infant skeletons. This piece is a promise i'm making to myself and to any future kids i might have. Acetone again with matte. Such a cute little guy with his balloon, which is as big as his freackin head! If his bones were hollow he would fly away...... up up and away with my beautiful my beautiful ballooooon Title: Evil: Hear, Say, See.... This one is more of a mix of acetone transfer, ink drawings, and matte. Favorite part of this was drawing the eardrum. (i really want to see one in real life) Title: Go Fish Technically this is an acetone transfer. I've never done a series before but these infants were really fun to draw over and over again. I love them! Title: Sunkiss This is actually an acetone transfer w/ monotype color. Title: Ties that go ...

 The Plastination Exhibit rolled through my hometown and i was able to sketch up some of the bodies.  Here is one of a ring tosser/gymnast who's body was dissected to show the ribs, organs, muscles, mammary glands etc. I added flesh to the breasts, opened up the top of the bust, moved the hands down, and added in the tiger moths and caterpillars.  Initial sketch with pencil (took around 3hrs) Background and skin color placement. Trying to decide on appropriate color and lighting. Here I started to go crazy with color and ended up with two light sources. But I decided to get rid of one of them. Developing the light source from within the chest cavity. This way the moths emerging from the top of the breast are more illuminated. Toning things down more and trying to make the inner oval recede back more. Shadows and highlights! Adding in the moths and caterpillars. Goodbye sea green background. Hello more depth and illumination. Here I was adding more shadows w...

 I've always been stronger at illustrating and drawing so i start with a sketch.    Then i try to focus on light source(s) and shadows. Finally i add in color and more shading. This is a very simple walk through, if i do another i will try to save more steps. http://k-el-p.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d38ww6h

Bringing home a baby Bumble Bee.... Concept idea for skeletons in balloons and an airhead. Done on a large piece of paper and then on a large transparency.  On the paper I drew up a couple of bodies that are partially fleshed out so that way their limbs are faded.  On the transparency I etched in the skeletal anatomy of the couple along with several cross-hatched lines and boxes. This was a difficult image to capture with a camera and there is still a lot of detail that was lost. Also the transparency adds some really neat shadows on the paper underneath. Playing around with 3-d and 2-d mix-matching. As you can tell the paper has been cut and bent to create a shallow dip. And onto of the paper there is dried glue that is forming a web. Like a tunnel spider.  Again the camera could not pick up the subtle details of the glue's transparency. :(  Foamboard again with ink and marker drawing.  The image above and below are the same. I found this little cardb...

"Egg Drop Soup: Birth of the World" Oil painting of girl breaking open an egg and the yolk is spilling out an new world. (physics be damned!) And in the window in the canvas is an egg has is sprouting a mini sculpture of gold wire and handmade kozo paper. And yes that is a real egg, don't worry it doesn't smell. ;)  This is an Exquisite Corpse that I did with a very good friend of mine. An Exquisite Corpse is a collaboration between two or more artists. You get your canvas, section off even parts, and you start the painting whatever you want, cover up all but an inch of it and from there another artist can paint from the colors and lines that you've put on it. Basically you are painting blind . :)  Steampunk idea. With a man, a bird, and a clock. "Self-Experimentaion" This was a challenge for myself in the following ways:   5'x6' ft oil painting (second largest painting i've done), translucency, reflection, opacity, focus, glass, edges, an...