Misery Children

I found a cool artist today by the name of Kathie Olivas. Her works features characters of children wearing various animals masks, cone hats (like gnomes which is my fav!) that I've been wanting to incorporate in my work. Her work focus on imperfect characters that parallel a vision of post-apocalyptic conformity, uniquely documenting their own stories in a mysterious brave new world - Artist herself. I think my work that I've done (not many) resembles with hers somehow, with the young characters, the way they're dressed up and incorporating animals. The way she paints reminds me of Mark Ryden's with that smooth texture and tone that make the figures pop out. I just really love her work!

"..what we are lead to believe as being innocent and socially acceptable. Although misfits on the surface, a sense of relation is understood, secret from the public - we are all misfits; hiding behind animated personas, odd and beautifully unusual." - Brandt Peters.