John Kenn
I became of aware of John Kenn's work several weeks ago, and I could just not love his stuff any more than I do, which is a lot. When I first started looking through his gallery, I could only check out a few drawings at a session, because they made me so envious.
His fine line work is obviously influenced by Gorey, but his monsters are even more atmospheric and emotionally resonant. They often appear in the same frame as children, and they seem mutually absorbed or frightened, or as if the monsters and children have reached a stalemate or have made some kind of accommodation.
Kenn draws on yellow post-it notes, and the color of the paper and the black pen lines conspire to give the drawings an aged look, like you've discovered them buried in a chest, in a dark corner of the attic.
I love his monsters, but also his trees and his bridges and his stones and his cottages. Everything in his drawings looks right, strange, and moody.
Somebody get me some John Kenn post-its, please. Look for yourself and you'll want some too.
His fine line work is obviously influenced by Gorey, but his monsters are even more atmospheric and emotionally resonant. They often appear in the same frame as children, and they seem mutually absorbed or frightened, or as if the monsters and children have reached a stalemate or have made some kind of accommodation.
Kenn draws on yellow post-it notes, and the color of the paper and the black pen lines conspire to give the drawings an aged look, like you've discovered them buried in a chest, in a dark corner of the attic.
I love his monsters, but also his trees and his bridges and his stones and his cottages. Everything in his drawings looks right, strange, and moody.
Somebody get me some John Kenn post-its, please. Look for yourself and you'll want some too.
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