MISCELLANEOUS PAINTINGS

These three paintings were completed while I was in high-school. They are all on unframed, stretched canvas. These pieces specifically where the first seeds to germinated from my young creative mind. It always amazes me, revisiting old paintings, and noticing how much I knew of myself and my style before I could really even contextualize it. I've always known what I wanted to do. The progressions of my work, starting here, summons my creativity for more.

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Kayla Jenkins

URBAN COLOR/2010

Mixed Media on Canvas
2010
48"x 48"

Original Sold
Print $85-$285

I loved the way Nautica turned out, especially the concept of three canvas' coming together to from one large painting, so I ran with it. I was also photographing some street art and graffiti at the time, which clearly inspired the forms here. I even used pastels over the acrylic paint, to give it more like street art. I worked from the outside, inward lining up the canvas' so the larger forms seamlessly flowed into smaller forms, then I hand-stitched the canvas' together.

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NAUTICA/ 2010

Acrylic paint on Canvas
2008
48"x 48"
Original Sold
Print $85-$285

I remember the inspiration for this piece like it was yesterday. My Studio Art class visited the Springfield Museum for a field trip and I was enthralled over this fossil of a nautical shell. This piece is actually made up for 3 pieces of canvas, allowing the piece to seemingly grow right before your eyes. I used thin layers of acrylic paint an translucent paint medium.

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HANDPRINT/2009

Acrylic paint on Canvas
2008
48"x 48"
Original Sold
Print $85-$285

This piece would be the first 48" x 48" canvas, of many. Inspired by Andy Warhol's, Shot Marilyns, I traced my hand-print for subject matter and projected it onto each quarter. I then hand drew the details with paint marker.

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