"Sketchbook Series No.1"
by Cassie Hart
Mixed Media (ballpoint pen, gouache, and acrylic)
- 11" x 8.25" (2020)
A northeast Ohio native, Cassie Hart obtained her B.F.A. in illustration at The Savannah College of Art and Design. Currently, she works in educational publishing but has worked in design and illustration for 16 years doing anything from toy design to coloring comic books. Cassie Hart examines the psyche with stylized studies of the human figure, living dreamily in a spontaneous world.
"These are pieces not made for a gallery setting. They are made with whatever cheap materials I have at the moment, including craft paint and the cheapest ballpoint pens you can get. Drawn in an old book I rebound blank pages into, I experiment with figure. A lot of these are studies and ideas I hope to make larger works one day, but there is a rawness to the original work that I find hard to replicate. When I work in a book I have no pressure of “the finished piece” and I think it translates to looser, and at times more interesting work. There is a beauty in that which is not carefully planned out, painted over, not perfect."
