An Artist Who Knows Kids!

by Katie Bent-Slay
(California, USA)

Mud Pies and Pillow Fights-An Artist Who Knows Kids!

Katie Bent-Slay
Illustration Major at The Academy of Art University SF
Illustration and Fine Artist

Book Cover Illustration, Story-Board Illustration, Conceptual Illustration, and Fine Art.

I am an explorer of all mediums and I like to mix it up to see how I can push the limits while bringing in character, sense of depth and story into my work. For example I will sculpt a realistic figure or head out of clay, take photos, layer it with a painting in Photo Shop and mix it with different found objects to create the composition.

I also love to use watercolor, acrylic, colored pencil, pastel, charcoal and oils.

I take each project as an individual challenge and price it based on the difficulty and time spent. I have a set hourly base fee and I work fast.

I work based off of your ideas and I send you small thumbnail sketches to show you how I can cultivate those ideas into a vision. If you like them we settle on a proposal and time frame and we get to work.

I have a great focus group at home of four kids that are bright and creative themselves and I often test ideas on their broad age group and diversity. (Boys and girls ages 7-13). I also look at what is drawing kids in today and what is most marketable to sell your book well.

You can check out my portfolio at www.katiesartandcreation.com or email me at kbs.artcreation@gmail.com

Thank you and have a glorious day!