Bass Pro / Outlets of Little Rock
Artist Bio: Kayleigh Sagar is a 22-year-old portrait artist from Little Rock, Arkansas. Kayleigh is inspired by people and their pets, and enjoys capturing personality in her work. Kayleigh began painting in high school, and developed her passion for portraying identity in her art while studying psychology and practicing portraits of family and friends during college. Acrylic paint is her preferred medium, and she paints almost exclusively with a ¼” angle paint brush. Kayleigh is a graduate student studying Marriage and Family Therapy, and hopes to utilize the therapeutic nature of art throughout her career.
Design Concept: My mural design is a dog (Gilly) sitting on the edge of a water bank, with water unfit for even a dog to drink. Surrounding the dog will be muddy grass with leaves, twigs, and flowers. The water draining into the sewer is polluted and will have a mixture of water bottles, coke cans, leaves, fish, and assorted life sized trash. The trash will look like it is both submerged and floating in the water. The dog looking up captures the essence of why I paint: bringing emotion and life into the art. People want the best for their dog, because dogs are treated as family. Making eye contact with a dog surrounded by unsuitable water tugs at my heart, and will hopefully spread the message of keeping water clean for our pets, our community, and the wildlife that we share it with.
Design Concept: My mural design is a dog (Gilly) sitting on the edge of a water bank, with water unfit for even a dog to drink. Surrounding the dog will be muddy grass with leaves, twigs, and flowers. The water draining into the sewer is polluted and will have a mixture of water bottles, coke cans, leaves, fish, and assorted life sized trash. The trash will look like it is both submerged and floating in the water. The dog looking up captures the essence of why I paint: bringing emotion and life into the art. People want the best for their dog, because dogs are treated as family. Making eye contact with a dog surrounded by unsuitable water tugs at my heart, and will hopefully spread the message of keeping water clean for our pets, our community, and the wildlife that we share it with.