Ken Bailey - Art Goes to the Cats And Dogs

Originally from Utah, Ken Bailey's family moved to Seattle, Washington when he was a child. The family eventually returned to Utah, but young Ken was in love with the Emerald City and returned and used residence after university where he began a marketing and promotion business; he has been a Seattleite for over 30 years.He realized art was planning to be his job from a young age. "I discovered I loved art in the 7th grade and have enjoyed and been performing it since then it since then," said Bailey. After senior school, he'd per year of style through an method, but nothing through an department.As an, Bailey went through several changes, "I guess I went through several phases and tried various techniques and styles while developing art skills, subjective, however life, areas primarily." While he now paints in a Deco style, that actually wasn't his influence, "While it does not influence could work or, contemporary art has been always liked by me. Leonetto Cappiello is a huge huge influence. I enjoy his self-explanatory ease. His fun is worked by his, the movement is great and I like his distinction of colors." What did affect his work was his curiosity about advertising, "One factor to my history that light emitting diode advertising art to be enjoyed by me was that just before emphasizing art I was in the advertising industry and did lots of copy writing. I love coming up with the tag lines on my art and wonderful tag lines are important areas of the final artwork."He started painting his, now brand, cat and dog works while dating his wife. She'd a Giant Schnauzer called Genny who he painted for his wife-to-be as a Christmas present. "It was a stylized painting and the first dog I had ever painted. Friends needed their dogs and cats painted and began observing the painting and I chose to focus on dogs and cats," said Bailey. During this time, he owned a in Seattle (by The Market) and a nearby gallery was organizing a coffee inspired present and asked if he could do a coffee focused painting with a dog. That evening he received a brochure from the publisher offering vintage advertising art. A few of the prints involved dogs and other coffee. "I decided the painting I'd do for the show would mix the two in a classic style painting. It offered the day I finished it, I liked the classic promotion principle and I was off."Bailey is currently a full-time artist and have been for yesteryear 12 years. While he's a musician first, he also uses a lot of time advertising, "Actually it contains a lot of overtime. In today's world it takes lots of work. Marketing can be a full time job," said Bailey. Ken sells his work in many ways, "One, Directly through my website, two, Wholesale through puppy accessories, gift stores and through trusted online retailers, three, Licensing and four, I actually do an important regional art reasonable, The Bellevue Art Museum Fair," said Bailey. For the past a decade, Bailey has licensed a number of his images for cards and wall art and recently, he started accreditation images for consumer goods, shoes, bags, rugs, ceramic items and more to come.In reality, Bailey has many companies going on simultaneously at kenbailey.com. He will paint your dog for as little as $50.00. He also offers Limit Edition Prints which begin at $32.50 and increase to $975.00 while his commissioned work ranges from $2,750.00 to $4,250.00.Ken Bailey is proof positive that an artist could be economically successful if he or she is prepared to put the work in. When it comes to future, Bailey really wants to develop and survive being an artist, "I am proud that I am successful. What I believe is my most significant success is when I will emotionally contact someone and a painting or print links someone to a loved little friend," says Bailey.