Nicki Doodles

An Artistic Process Blog

by Nicole Blanchard

Kansas City Art Institute

Illustration Major

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Posted by Nicki Doodles at 6:39 PM

Nicki Doodles: My first and most important artistic influence is my Grandma Joan who gave up her Graphic Design Career to move to Miami when i was born. She is a third parent to me, as well as a tutor, a critic, a cosmo and game of pictionary on a sunday night, a scrapbook of memories of summers of train rides to new england, a girl scout grandma, a lifetime of handmade christmas cards, a phone call that is always answered. With her guidance and support i was accepted to a magnet arts middle school and New World School of the Arts High School. I am now pursuing happiness and a BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute, and for the first time we live more than 2 minutes down the street from eachother. I was never interested in blogging before, but i have created this one for Grandma Joan, and her daughter, my equally supportive (although artistically challenged accountant) mother, Carin, as well as anyone else who is interested in keeping up with my artistic process. I bet grandma never dreamed that the hours she spent teaching me how to use play dough in my high chair would ever lead to this.(although she did have the insight to nickname me "nickidoodles", which later became "Nicki Doo")

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