Art Works Gallery – Kelly Liedtke

Pointillism, Colored Pencil, and Ink

Kelly Liedtke is an award-winning, internationally recognized, and published artist with a day job. Kelly was introduced to pen and ink as a teenager, and it has been a constant in her life ever since. She uses many different techniques; however, pointillism is probably her favorite. These drawings happen in the middle of the night, at her son’s school events, and any other time she can scrape together a few minutes to pour her soul into these incredibly detailed ink drawings. People remark about the patience required to create them, and she usually responds with, “Oh, there are wars and battles in each and every one”. Kelly finds the best muses are ordinary and she captures their magic for a brief instant: A bird’s feathers in the sunlight, a fish rising to catch its next meal, the way light plays its games on architecture, things that happen every day that we have forgotten to recognize as magic. Each drawing is the cumulative effect of many small actions, created one dot, line, or squiggle at a time. Each action affects the next action and when added together, they trick the viewer into seeing the actual subject from a distance. Kelly’s works are a reflection of life as we know it; one event leading to another and so on.