Hey there. It’s me Ken, your friendly neighborhood watercolor artist.
I paint portraits. Pet portraits, people portraits, building portraits. You may catch me making sketchbook paintings of cafés, coffeeshops and bars. Look around. See if your favorite spot is available as a print. If it isn’t, let me know your favorite spot and I’ll meet you there & doodle it.
I paint places
Lots of places. Like, 80 of them at this point? 90? In a series of sketchbooks. People always ask me about my process. 1. I draw in pen on location. 2. I take photos for color reference then paint at home. That’s basically it! I have a whole process of photographing and printing these though, which is a whole other story.
And people
People love people. It took a while before I was comfortable painting portraits of people, but I took the plunge one year, and they’re coming out really good! This is Bailey & Steve’s wedding. I was going to live paint this, but that didn’t work out, (It’s a long story!) so I was able to crush this with some photos from a very cooperative photographer.
And pets
Like, a jillion of these. This is how I got started. I painted one of my pets years ago, and thought to myself “hey…this watercolor thing really works well for me”. Then I started painting coworkers pets, and they started commissioning them from me, and then strangers started commissioning them from me, and here we are! (Spoiler alert - lots of steps and lots of time between all these things).
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I’ve got greeting cards of all my birds, prints of all my local sketchbook illustrations, postcards of them too, and original art. Want to commission something from me? You can do that too.
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I do a ton of stuff. I always have. Back when I was a bike messenger, I started running bike events. Then I kept running bike events long after I was a messenger, just because that was my world… that was my community. And I wanted to give everyone things to do. Now, the local art world is my community, and me doing my work is something you can be a part of.