Artist 50: Audrey Kawaski

This artist uses the same technique as one of my friends (who is more of a local artist and so doesn't qualify for the blog even though she's amazingly talented as you can see). She paints on wood panels and lets some of the wood tone come through in her paintings. This artist often uses it for skin tones. In general, it also seems to add an element of warmth to the paintings.



Which in this case helps to balance the weirdness of the subject matter. She paints girls that look to me like teenagers, but in very erotic way. Their poses and even their facial expressions are extremely seductive. It deals kind of with our ideas of innocence and the reality of teenage sexuality. It really feels upsetting just to look at them. But I think that's the point.

I also think that the wood complements her style in a really interesting way. Her style is very graphic almost like anime. Again it looks a lot like the style I used to draw in middle school. Most people who use this style would never paint on wood. But if there was too much shading and other stuff going on, the wood grain would get lost and it would all be too busy, and the wood grain adds an element of texture and warmth to round out the style.

Here is her website.

P.S. I'm done!