KATHERINE CROSSLEY

My name is Kat Crossley and I am a 35 year old artist from Northridge, California. I recently moved to Merced, California to pursue a Bachelor of Art at Cal State Stanislaus. I started drawing in September of 2015. I wanted to try and impress a girl that I wanted to win back. It worked too--for a minute. More importantly, it lit something in me that was unlike any other fire before it. I had initially planned on being a professional musician; but two broken jaws threw a wrench in that plan. After that, I tried to pursue a degree in business, then criminal justice, then social work, finally humanities. I just could not figure out who I wanted to be or what I wanted to do. I had destroyed my GPA due to all my failed goals and financial aid was getting harder and harder to qualify for. It was my last shot at making something of myself. It was a true miracle moment when I heard a voice in my ear telling me to start drawing—out of literally nowhere. Once I started, I found that it was all I wanted to do—all day, every day. Every spare moment was spent drawing in either pen, color pencil, graphite, or watercolor pencil--at work, at home, wherever I could for 12 to 16 hours a day. I created my first painting in a beginning painting class at

Mt San Antonio College in 2019. I found that I loved it as much as I loved drawing. Initially, I was drawn to Pop Art painting and started creating mostly portraits in the style. I am now exploring different styles of art to find which one is going to work best for me. I have no idea what I want to say with my art at this point—I do not even know what kind