Kellie Gardner
“In art, a bumble bee can be red and the grass blue. It is the ultimate freedom.”
— Kellie Gardner
Welcome Avec Plaisir!
You have taken the first step in getting to know me and my art.
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Improve your knowledge of art and your viewing skills.
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Discover what it takes for me to create art from my inspiration to the final painting.
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Be entertained, viewing works of art and reading stories, bloopers and antidotes about my life as a creative.
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Art for sale coming soon.
Venus, oil on canvas 48” x 60” 2019
Grab a snack and a drink. Forget your responsibilities. Spend three to five minutes viewing each painting. Let your eyes wander through color, space and shape.
Before you investigate further, Ask yourself a few questions.
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Be honest with yourself and understand you don’t have to be an expert to enjoy a painting. Do you know anything about music to enjoy it? Do you know anything about literature to enjoy reading a good book. Well, the same goes for viewing a painting. Give yourself permission to just look without feeling intimidated or ignorant.
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You want to examine how well the painting makes sense. Does it look balanced or does it look incomplete, bare and lacking or too full of distracting elements?
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The best thing to do is look at all the paintings an artist produces to see if they all look similar to each other. Last but not least, determine how original or unfamiliar it looks. Basically, if you have never seen anything like it, then you may be looking at quality art.
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This is the most important question to ask yourself. Spend a decent amount of time viewing Kellie’s work, but if by the end of seeing everything and you still hate it. Then maybe this is not the work you want to purchase, but your opinion has nothing to do with the value of the painting itself.
MADONNA AND CHILD, oil on canvas 24” x 24” 2019