Kiki MacInnis is a painter who lives and works in Seattle. In her current practice she focuses on drawing with brush and ink on paper. She draws large drift trees and roots on site at the beach, and brings smaller matter like seaweed holdfasts, barnacles and shells back to her studio. Each time she returns to the beach objects large and small have unexpectedly moved. Most of the drawings in the Water Margin animations are studies and sketches accumulated from older projects. Like a sunken log–once a tree, now home to lively communities of sea organisms –these drawings had a previous life and are now transformed.
I found this video of an adult professional abstract painter playing like a kid. Not with wild abandon. This isn’t that kid. This is the really quiet thoughtful kid who didn’t hear the lunch bell because he’s finger-painting a masterpiece. He’s into it. Did you ever get all into making textures and shapes and all kinds …
Colors are shifty buggers. The way we process visual information causes colors to change in relationship to what they’re next to, giving us a constant source of optical illusions. This makes mixing accurate color rather complicated. Below are a few optical quandaries to illustrate how complicated this “accurate seeing” stuff can be. “A thing is never seen …
Below is a video by Proko showing a brief overview of basic drawing supplies, and a demo for how to hand sharpen a soft charcoal pencil. He explains what the weird sandpaper thingy is for.
Kiki MacInnis
Kiki MacInnis is a painter who lives and works in Seattle. In her current practice she focuses on drawing with brush and ink on paper. She draws large drift trees and roots on site at the beach, and brings smaller matter like seaweed holdfasts, barnacles and shells back to her studio. Each time she returns to the beach objects large and small have unexpectedly moved. Most of the drawings in the Water Margin animations are studies and sketches accumulated from older projects. Like a sunken log–once a tree, now home to lively communities of sea organisms –these drawings had a previous life and are now transformed.
I took an ink class from Kiki a couple of years ago and loved every minute of it. She feels like family. An excellent artist and teacher. I’m thrilled she’s joined us at the League! Click here to see her upcoming class: an introduction to ink.
BIOGRAPHY TIMELINE
Grew up in Taiwan ’53–66
Lived 3 years in Japan ’70–73
Lived in Massachusetts ’75-77
Moved to Los Angeles 1978
Moved to Seattle WA 1993
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