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(and they're really really crap, crap like in "Big Hair Metal"...i always THOUGHT crap was a handy acronym for "Their art doesn't speak to me on any level whatsoever"

There's a lot of inspirational sources I can see in SK's work apart from Grace Slick, like, say, Indian religious art, Modigliani (quite a lot), van Gogh, Picabia...some of the wild fauve, symbolist colours look like Munch, some of the "fuck perspective" POV of Paulie Cézanne... It's reflected and somehow seen through a dopey psychedelic lense. I pretty much like SK's portraits of rock stars...they mostly look so desperate, tilted and out of their natural habitat, it's amazing, while Slick tries to do a slick photorealistic job with some wild colours sprinkled over the pictures. I can see G.S. tries, but her artistic level is Sunday painter at best. She has obviously read some of those books from your local library, "How to master head proportions" or "Anatomy the easy way"and she can copy photographs fairly well (though i wonder if she copies against the light). I don't hear a singular artistic, unique voice, just as I don't hear much valid artistic expression in Oasis' or Muse's or Bryan Adams' music. It's epigonism at best, on the level of adult education centre. I also won't say SK's a great painter, but after the first bunch of pastels, I noticed he was developing a voice of his own, then, just in the second before it became "shtick", he found what is maybe best described as "free hand". And that's where artistic expression begins, in case you really mean it and don't use your name to sell your paintings as novelties. And if she sells something like the pencil doodle of Stevie Ray Vaughan, it's pure impertinence, that's the throwaway stuff kids use to draw when they're bored in class...pose is from a photograph, and look how she mis-draw the hat...



If it makes her happy, though