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2020:

March 20 – 22, 2020: Toronto Comic Con – Metro Toronto Convention Centre

June 5 – 7, 2020: Niagara Falls Comic Con – Scotiabank Convention Centre

August 27 – 30, 2020: Fan Expo Canada – Metro Toronto Convention Centre

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Peacock feathers are always intriguing subject matter. The blue, green, and gold is one of my favourite colour palettes. Swipe for the wood version. #peacock #peacockfeathers #peafowl #feathers #birdlovers #procreate #patternsinnature #patterns #natureart #katharinekennie

I’ve been making drawings for my series of laser etched coasters this month. This fly agaric needed to have a colour version. Swipe for a video showing the laser etched wood coaster. #flyagaric #amanita #amanitamuscaria #🍄 #toadstool #mushrooms #illustration #katharinekennie

Designed some new business cards to reflect where my work is going. #artnouveau #graphicart #illustration #figurativeart #historical #ornamental #digitalart #mythandmagic #drawing #stylizedart #stylized #katharinekennie

I know I’m a day late, but Happy New Year everyone! Here’s a psychedelic octopus 😁 This year is going to be all about drawing for me. I want to improve my skills, so I’m planning lots of study time into my work schedule. I’ll try to post some process stuff to my stories along the way. There’s a page of eye studies up right now if you’re interested. #octopus #octopusart #artnouveau #artnouveaustyle #psychedelicart #posterart #seamonster #seacreature #underwaterworld #graphicart #digitalillustration #katharinekennie

Finished this baby up. Final colour version (ink on paper with digital colour). I’m sketching today and listening to Opeth albums on repeat. Feels right. #digitalart #illustration #treeoflife #appletree #inkdrawing #digitalcolor #treeroots #skulls #skullart #cyclesofnature #katharinekennie

I’ve been working hard at learning procreate, figuring out how to make it do what I want it to, and I’m starting to like the results. Here’s another colour piece that will be released as a print next year. #digitalart #ram #ramskull #horns #artnouveau #digitaldrawing #colourfade #gradation #katharinekennie

A set of four icons I finished this morning. I’m back in Canada at home trying to recover from feeling jet lagged- what a strange feeling. I was thinking about what a novel experience it is for modern humans- flying across an ocean has only been possible for about 100 years (and commercial flights have been operating for about half as long). #graphicdesign #logodesigns #logo #digitaldrawing #symmetry #texture #vintagestyle #katharinekennie

Something very interesting happened for me in a Catholic Basilica today. My wife Michelle and I have been hitting the tourist sites in Barcelona this week. The city so far has lived up to my expectations of medieval streets and Art Nouveau design elements everywhere. One of the major attractions of the destination was my favourite architect, Antoní Gaudi- the strange and unusual organically driven artist from the turn of the last century. His richly coloured mosaics and concrete buildings are works that I’ve been admiring and sketching from since I was a kid. We visited Park Güell this morning, and then made our way to his enormous masterpiece of a design that is still under construction now, La Sagrada Família. We took a guided tour with a group of anglophones, of which the first hour was outside admiring the facade. It was impressive and interesting but not what had drawn me to the building in my books at home. As the gothic organ started (it plays for a few minutes every half hour), we headed inside as the winter sun was setting and illuminating the west wall of glass. I’m not usually an overly emotional person- for me, the world is a place to be analyzed and rationalized to make sense of it, and if you know me, you know that I am certainly not catholic or Christian. I was caught by surprise by a rush of emotion- I was close to tears, and very uncomfortable with that fact in a public place. I tried to get my shit together, with not much success. The interior of the church is incredibly tall, with columns of tree like forms that make up a forest of pillars that support the enormous spires and towers. The stained glass is incredible, and stripped away from the usual dogmatic imagery that is present in most ecclesiastical glass. It’s organized in colour families and completely non-representational. Most of the interior is the same- instead of the images of religion, Gaudi used the language of artists- colour, light, shape and form, in the purest way possible. It was an incredible and overwhelming sensation, especially with the pipe organ filling another of my senses. (Continued in comments)

In honour of my trip to Barcelona this week, here is one of my new prints that I’ve been working on. I’m very excited to release some new colour work on paper in 2020! #peacock #artnouveau #artnouveaustyle #peacockart #peacockfeathers #digitalart #digitalillustration #illustration #katharinekennie

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