Fulfilling dream, artist taking first step toward future creations
A local artist will soon be adding the latest layer of color and lines to the portrait that makes up her life as she gets ready to move away for more training she hopes one day to propel her to work with the stars of Hollywood and much more.
Rockmart High School graduate Kasie Price has big dreams in mind for her future and her work as she gets ready in the coming weeks for a big move across the state to coastal Georgia. That's where she'll start the next step of her education at Savannah College of Art and Design, or SCAD for short.
She intends once she finishes her studies to pursue her passion in art for a career in hopes to find work in animated features for film and television, and maybe later on start an art school for youth with Autism.
Price was recently accepted into SCAD - which was the only college she applied for - with a $20,000 scholarship. She said it was her lifelong dream to get into the school.
“We took a trip to Savannah when I was 9 years old and that’s when I first fell in love with the town first, then around elementary school I fell in love with art and found out there was an art school in my favorite town,” said Price. “Since then it all seemed
like it was all lined up and I knew that it was going to happen.”
At an early age, Price first noticed her capability in the art field when her peers started to come and ask for her to draw for them. Price said that she would sell the drawings for 50 cents so that she could get ice cream for the day.
“It’s always been hard for me to sell my artwork because I always tend to get personal with every piece,” Price said and laughed. “Like, can I buy that back from you?”
She's no stranger to her artwork selling. She was one of many artists who earlier in the year took part in a local art show put together at the Cedartown Performing Arts Center, where she displayed a variety of pieces for sale starting much higher than her elementary school prices of at least $25.
Price has also moved on to different mediums for her artwork, and currently favors working with watercolors and using a free-flowing approach in her brushstrokes and how it changed the way the paint hit the canvas. It's experiments like this that give her work a surreal and dream-like quality.
“I like art that says something, and that’s for every piece of art. I like that it (my work) is a representation of who that person is,” Price said. “For me, I’m more into the Bohemian lifestyle so for a lot my artwork turns out being really colorful and vibrant , but I guess you could also call it hippy art if you wanted to.”
Her colorful and vibrant approach to life also applies to her plans for the future.
She might be working with canvas and paints for now, but Price hopes one day to take her work into a digital space with more creative freedom by focusing on animation as her ideal way to make her dreams come true. Drawing from inspirational contemporary figures in the field like John Lasseter, director of such Pixar features as Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Cars and Cars 2, and how he has overcome personal and professional obstacles to create amazing stories and art through animation as one of many reasons why she wants to go into the field.
She hopes one day to apply these talents for the likes of Disney (now owners of Pixar,) the Cartoon Network, Dreamworks and others who create cartoons for entertainment and advertising.
Price also plans one day on owning her own nonprofit later on down the road called “Anything Art,” which will be an art organization focused mainly helping children with disabilities such as Autism and Down Syndrome express themselves through creation.
For business inquiries the best way to contact kassie is by going through her buisness called “Happy Hippie Trippy Art.” The Email is Kasieprice16@icloud.com or her Business line which is 678- 9773818.
Her work specializes in acrylic and watercolor paintings, portraits, and personalized custom art ideas from customers who have creative inspirations, but don't have the know-how to bring them to life.
For ultimately, that's what Price hopes to achieve most of in her journey in the art world - to help herself and others to create dreams and bring them into the real world.