A dark forest filled with snakes and poisonous berries emerges from a woman’s flesh in this gothic fantasy painting by Kelly McKernan. Note the effect that the artist has used on the woman’s hair – McKernan doesn’t usually use masking fluid, so instead of masking the hair areas and peeling the dried mask away to reveal the background beneath, McKernan paints around the hair areas with tiny paint brushes.
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Femme of Fantasy Come Alive in Kelly McKernan’s Paintings
American illustrator and fine artist Kelly McKernan paints women in imaginative worlds other than our own. Each of her scenes includes, as she says on her website; a woman and a world. These women either interact with the world around them or they seem to look off-page, over the viewer’s shoulder, as if there is […]