Hi! I am Kanika Khurana. Nice to e-meet you!
I paint, design and illustrate. If you want to see this kind of stuff from your comfortable couch, find me on Instagram @kanikaart
To commission work, please write to me at mail@kanikakhuranaart.com
For art prints, greeting cards, and stickers, please click the link to my store: www.kanikaart.com
B I O
Kanika Khurana is a British Council & Ken Sprague Fund award-winning artist, illustrator and surface designer whose work focuses on themes of natural history, nostalgia, and intimacy with one another. After graduating from Western Connecticut State University in 2017, Kanika began teaching and exhibiting her work, designing and selling greeting cards, stickers, and calendars.
A R T I S T S T A T E M E N T
MIXED MEDIA WORK
I use traditional materials, watercolor, and colored pencils on hot press paper to capture movement and life – making the brush dance and the colors sing.
Everything is captured in the spontaneous dance and movement of the brush as it meets the paper. There is no going back and correcting when painting with watercolors
DIGITAL ART
I make art because I want to create life. I hand-paint various art elements using watercolor and colored pencil and then collage them digitally using Photoshop. I chose Photoshop as my medium because it allows me to manipulate the color and transparency of each element. The digital art collages are designed to look as if they are handpainted. This allows me to create living environments that generate the same excitement I feel when I paint with watercolors.
Original compositions are done in Photoshop and printed on Archival paper and inks—small editions of signed and numbered prints.
M Publishing, Little People magazine, Domus Gallery, and Wardrobe
T E A C H I N G
Western Connecticut State University, Brookfield Craft Center, Society of Illustrators NYC, NYC Parks Arts Culture & Fun
A R T I S T
T A L K
SI Spring Art Week, Society of Illustrators NYC
E D U C A T I O N
