Pencil Artist of the Week: Adonna Khare

This week’s featured artist is Adonna Khare, a pencil artist living in Burbank, California. Adonna creates large-scale pencil drawings depicting fantastically realized animals in fantastically absurd situations; sipping tea, supporting trees with their horns, bathing, etc. Her drawings are often over four feet tall, and filled with enough detail to keep viewers coming back for seconds… and thirds, and fourths.

Adonna has been praised by The Los Angeles Times, U-Press Telegram, and Edward Goldman on NPR and in 2012 she won the ArtPrize for one of her graphite drawings. In her ArtPrize submission, Adonna described her creative process:

“Raised in a small town in Iowa, I’ve been drawing my family and animals since I was three. I create using the pencil, the eraser and a sock as my tools. The drawings are not pre-planned rather they evolve through my experiences with people and the absurdities of life. The result is a group of drawings where the animals coexist in a world beyond ours, and are inexplicably tied together, often not by choice.”

Drawings by Pencil Artist Adonna Khare

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If you want to see more of Adonna’s drawings, you can check out her gallery on her website, or you can check out her permanent collection at the Long Beach Museum of Art.

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