Kerry Trout's Art

 

 

                                      As a fine artist, Kerry Trout is self-taught, but likes to attribute her talent                                       to her mother's artistic genes. At the young age of 15, she was already                                           selling her artwork to a gift shop, and by 16, had brought home a "Best                                         of Show" trophy for a Chamber of Commerce art show. After a college                                         curriculum in commercial art, she went into the publications field and                                           designed advertising and logos, then painted pastel portraits of adults,                                         children, and dogs as a side job. She was commissioned by the                                                       Charlotte Motor Speedway to do portraits of NASCAR drivers including                                         Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt.

 

She switched to painting in acrylics and watercolors, and favored covered bridges and barn landscapes, which won her numerous awards at the local and state levels. Kerry began painting on furniture in 1995, and when the editors of North Light Books saw her furniture, she was asked to write a book. She has since authored five: Handpainting Your Furniture, From Flea Market To Fabulous, Decorative Mini Murals, Handpainted Gifts for All Occasions, and Paint Charming Cottages and Villages. Kerry has produced several children's works for Scholastic Books, and she has also co-authored books and written many magazine articles for the painting world.

 

Kerry manufactures Liquid Shadow — a bottled medium she developed for the decorative painting industry. Her formula was awarded "New Product of The Year" at the 2003 Society of Decorative Painting National Convention, and since then has sold over 20,000 bottles. It was also in 2003 when her painted ornament was one of two chosen from Indiana to hang on the official White House Christmas Tree, and First Lady Laura Bush personally invited her to a reception to honor all the ornament artists.

 

Kerry lives in the beautiful Indiana countryside where she works out of her home studio. She produces wall murals on canvas, paints unique furniture, and teaches private painting classes. You can find her pattern packets and Liquid Shadow at www.ArtistsClub.com. She is also an instructor with Social Artworking and teaches painting at home parties.