Keegan Wenkman

Who are you?Wenkman, Keegan
www.onefootinfront.com

What do you do?
Draw, paint, and print

Inspirations?
Turn of the century phone books, bonds, and hand made type mostly found in the special collections of your local library. Painters like Rembrandt, Goya, Odd Nerdrum, Joe Sorren. Illustrators like Gorey, Horkey, J. Ryan, Diana Sudyka, Autobahn, Chris Ware, and Posada. Printmakers like W. Winship, Aesthetic Apparatus, and all things Japanese.














Please describe your creative process, or highlight a specific process used for a recent project.
Everything (being pretty or not so pretty pictures) is researched for days ahead of any ink or paint laid down….to form a general concept….so research fuels my concepts, backwards, I agree. Next in the process is a set of visceral decisions on the placement of (researched) subject/s. Followed by a flurry of pigment…a break…finishing touches to achieve some asymmetricality.

Please describe your average workday.
Coffee then food by noon followed by research. Break at 5-7pm for a beer. Around dusk I begin drawing until exhaustion. Somewhere in there is a goodly attempt to court clients and usually a trip to the post office.














What are things that you would like to do in the future that you haven't done already?
Move to France; publish books, and reinvigorating the beauty of things hand-made to future generations. Maybe own a house and live in the car port.