Welcome to my NEW website! — ANNABEL KENNEDY ART

HELLO EVERYONE!!!

Thank you for finding my website and having a browse - how exciting!

I have been dreaming of setting up a website to showcase my artwork for over the last year, so I am so glad I finally took the leap, with the brilliant help of Poppy and Monica at ‘Showcase Creative’. I am so proud of the web design we have created with this site, and can’t wait to hear what you all think.

I really started to embrace my artwork and developing my painting style during the pandemic. I have never written a blog or diary before, but on here I am going to embark on a journey of artistic discovery and share what I learn. I have noticed how much I have improved in my drawing and detailed awareness within my paintings, and I can’t wait to start experimenting and playing with new subjects and materials.

Let’s get creating!

I thought for my first blog post I would share a picture of the painting that started it all!

I did Art A-Level at Plymouth College Sixth Form, and loved working with mixed media textures and especially working with acrylic paint. My parents asked me if I could paint them something for the kitchen to fill a large space above the cooker. We had some small framed sepia art prints of New York on the opposite walls, so I thought I would keep the theme going. To make the piece more intriguing and abstract, I incorporated different pictures I found of skyscrapers in ‘The Big Apple’ to create a “fake” cityscape, showcasing the enormity and countless square buildings. I experimented further with the textures, adding lines with a glue gun and bits of ripped card board boxes (I am yet to return to these materials in my painting since, but keen to revisit this effect soon), alongside newspaper and magazine collaging. What really finished off this painting was the fine-liner pen detailing of all the lines and windows the buildings, adding dimension and precision to this otherwise quite loose and abstract piece.

Every time I return home to see my family, I smile when I see this painting hanging in the kitchen. I was and still am so pleased with how this turned out, but even happier that this painting was the catalyst for starting my business - Annabel Kennedy Artwork.