IN THE STUDIO
CREATIVE PROCESS
Karen LaFleur’s artwork is a blend of both traditional and digital mediums. Each artwork begins with a hand-drawn pencil sketch on vellum and is combined with traditional painting, digital-renderings, digital photography, found objects scans and typography. Once the artwork and story are complete they are then printed or animated to bring the artwork to life.
COMBINING BEAUTY
Objects such as feathers, ribbons, antique fabrics, images of butterflies and dried flowers, etc. are often used as tools or reference materials in the artwork. Each item embodies a beauty often overlooked by the casual eye. This beauty is scanned into the computer, capturing only textures and colors rather than the object itself, and then is combined and reshaped by the artist’s hand and eye.
"As a digital artist Karen LaFleur combines the excellence of fine art with the computer's boundless possibility. Her narrative art draws the viewer into a wonderful world of imagination and reveals the inside story seldom told."
Elizabeth Ives Hunter, Executive Director, Cape Cod Museum of Art
