Don Kenn is an artist whose work i can really appreciate.
His is work consists mainly of horrific, yet beautifully detailed sketches on post-it notes using a fine liner. Now I personally am a fan of fine liner, and when it comes to sketches, i find it is my strongest medium, yet i find myself amazed that Don Kenn is able to create such wonderful images, with as much detail as this on such a tiny canvas. While I can only assume they are not all made on the most standard sized post-it notes, the ones he uses surely cant be anywhere near A4.
Thanks to his use of this paper, his otherwise colourless images are now filled with this dull, eerie yellow which completely gives his work a whole new level of 'creepy'. If these images were created on regular white/cream paper, the effect would be much further away from what Don Kenn is after.
His is work consists mainly of horrific, yet beautifully detailed sketches on post-it notes using a fine liner. Now I personally am a fan of fine liner, and when it comes to sketches, i find it is my strongest medium, yet i find myself amazed that Don Kenn is able to create such wonderful images, with as much detail as this on such a tiny canvas. While I can only assume they are not all made on the most standard sized post-it notes, the ones he uses surely cant be anywhere near A4.
Thanks to his use of this paper, his otherwise colourless images are now filled with this dull, eerie yellow which completely gives his work a whole new level of 'creepy'. If these images were created on regular white/cream paper, the effect would be much further away from what Don Kenn is after.
Another thing to note is, while his images are predominantly made up of these hulking monstrosities, there is a recurring theme of children present in his images. What I think this does is, gives his images some story, these are not just pictures of behemoths, these are pictures of massive creatures, lurking around innocent children, if this is to immerse the viewer more, or simply because of his affinity to children (he writes childrens television shows) I am unsure.
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