Amy Corn – Obsessed with the Bots

For Amy Corn art is all about the fun. After spending her entire life drawing on everything and everyone, it was photographs of graffiti that inspired Amy’s latest pen and ink designs.

While browsing a website dedicated to the art of graffiti, Amy discovered photos of graffiti from Argentina. The robots that had been painted seem to have sparked something in Amy. She became not just inspired by the robot design, but she became “obsessed.”

She began by airbrushing her Argentinean inspired robot design onto a t-shirt for a friend, and continued painting robots on everything. After her son was born, Amy began creating her Bots in pen and ink because “it was much easier to just get out a pen and paper while Connor was napping.” Connor, her son, is the inspiration for many of her Bots.

Amy [then Amy King] graduated from Raytown South High School in 1999 and went on to CMSU, where she studied illustration. Her desire was to illustrate children’s books.

In 2004, she attended UMKC and studied Graphic Design. She worked at World’s of Fun as an airbrush artist for many years before she realized that she could do it on her own. Currently, Amy owns Hot Air Airbrush, designing and creating airbrushed designs on t-shirts and more. Amy is married to Russ Corn.

Amy’s work is on display at Benetti’s Coffee Experience and can also be viewed online at KC Present Magazine [http://www.presentmagazine.com/]. You will also be able to view and purchase Amy’s work this weekend at SummerFest.