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I love pimping my fellow artists and I've got the space to do it, so why wouldn't I? Each month, I choose an artist who has struck my fancy, so to speak, someone with whom I feel has an art style that complements my own or someone whose talent I simply admire and appreciate. If you're interested in being my next guest artist, please feel free to contact me! I'd love to hear from you!
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This Month's Featured Guest Artist
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Karla Magaña
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Karla Magaña's Website
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Love Goth? Love girls with ponytails, short skirts, fishnet stockings and skulls? Then you're going to love Karla Magaña (AKA "K"), a 23-year-old, self-taught illustrator and comic book artist who focuses the majority of her work on beautiful, sexy Goth girl art. K lives with her temperamental diva dog "Poo" in the "unfashionable, fetid depths of beachy San Diego." Though she didn't "spring from the womb gripping a pencil" she started sketching and cartooning in her early teenage years, around the same time she discovered 80s, goth and EBM music and "everything sprang from there. "Music is her major inspiration and she tells me she "won't pick up a pen or brush without something playing in the background." More than likely some Depeche Mode, as she has informed me her "life wouldn't be complete" without them.
Her "poisons of choice" are ink and acrylic. Ink is her "first love," and she describes her relationship with it as very S&M. "I can dominate it just as easily as it can dominate me. There's little room for mistakes with ink, so it forces my otherwise scattered brain to focus." She picked up acrylics fairly recently in an effort to work on a larger scale and be more interactive with her art. "Slapping paint around and mashing a brush against a piece of scrap wood is definitely a departure from inking eyelashes with a tiny brush." While her bold inked line art is detailed and sharp, she conveys a looser style in her painting.
My favorite work of K's is when she blends these opposing techniques together. Her ink art is sleek and sexy on its own, but then she surrounds it with looser, sketchy lines, covers the background with chaotic paint washes and then accents the details with a vibrant, solid color to draw your eyes over the entire piece. Truly striking. "Goth Girl Red Skulls" is a prime example of that. The duality of this crispy but free combination also comes through in her answer to how she would sum herself up personality-wise. A simple and to-the-point reply, "I love people and yet they disgust me." K's got a really cool style that separates her from the masses and that's why she's this month's Featured Guest Artist!
If you're interested in checking out more of K's work, you can visit her web sites at:
http://www.kreepshow.com
http://kreepshowart.etsy.com
Make sure you check out her online comic book, "The Harlequin Glass", which chronicles the life of a girl and her adventures as she communicates with spirits, zombies and a slew of other dead things.
Until next time!
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If you're interested in being a Featured Guest Artist on my web site,
tell
me why
. Be sure to include a link to your web site and some pics of your work. I'd
love to see what you've got! And, of course, I love pimping a fellow artist!
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