Today I am happy to announce the launch of a wonderful new outlet for women artists, and new website for YOU to buy fabulous art:  www.museandthemoon.com!

*Great place to find original holiday gifts!*  hint hint.

Please check it out, there are lots of amazing artists featured here (including myself).  There will also be video interviews with the artists so you can see how the art is made and get to know your artists better. 

I'm really excited to see the evolution of this website and all the wonderful artists that are involved.  If you want to check out my artist profile on the site, click here. 

Big thanks and congrats to Erin Shockey, the creator of Muse and the Moon.

Check it out, people.

XO

Kai

My exploration of embroidery overlapped with my first introductory course in French.  Part of how I have been memorizing my verb conjugations is by embroidering them.  That way I practice both French and embroidery at the same time, making me a genius.

Also, one of the worst things to happen to me this year was to get food poisoning on day that I was supposed to see Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part I with my friends.  Absolute Tragedy.  And don't you dare start judging me for buying advanced tickets to the opening night showing of this film.  I am a hardcore feminist and I fully understand and agree that this "Saga" is a horrible example for girls and women and that it perpetuates everything that's wrong with our puritanical, patriarchal, hipocritical society.  That said, I love it for all the right reasons.  These movies are probably some of the best laughs you can get.  You just have to approach it the right way.  With an open, sarcastic heart.

Anyway, I was really upset that I couldn't go so I turned to practicing my French embroidery for consolation.  Obviously, vomit was on my mind since that was what I'd been doing all day.  So, French word of the day: Vomir.  To Vomit.

Do you have any other great french verbs that would look great in embroidery?  Let me know and I'll conjugate them via stitch!

Xo

Kai

It turns out I've been sufficiently obsessed with Ms. Nicks to make two more attempts to capture her vibe in my art.  I believe I'm done with her for now, though.  As much as I love her, there are too many great pop culture icons right now to dwell in the past.

A few months back, I took a collage class at 3rd Ward and learned an awesome new photo transfer technique using spray fixative!  Way less messy than using gels or other methods.  So here's a little mixed media piece with our dear Stevie (photo transfer), collage, and watercolor.

And do you remember my first Stevie Nicks embroidery piece (actually, my first embroidery, period)?  Here's the follow up.  I'm not as crazy about it as I was about the first one.  I couldn't capture her face.  But I still think it's hilarious.  They are both from the same photo shoot, with that same damn bird which just cracks me up.  Nothing like carrying a bird all the time to channel your inner "ethereal gypsy rock goddess".

Au revoir, Stevie.  Xoxo.

Hi all!

I'm still on this embroidery kick.  The more I do it the more I LOVE it.  I think one of the things I like best about it is that when I do portraits in just one color, they look like line drawings.  Except the process of stitching is way more fun than drawing.  I'm very process-oriented.

So after seeing my first Stevie Nicks embroidery, a friend of mine commissioned a portrait of Omar from the HBO series "The Wire" as a gift for her husband.  And of course I was up for the challenge. 

_Can you believe I've never seen a full episode?  I know, I'm terrible.  Everyone loves that show, and I'm positive I would love it too because I pretty much love every HBO series ever made.  I just haven't gotten around to that one...maybe this is a 2012 resolution.

And please check out the clever blog by the woman who commissioned this piece, called Simple Etiquette with Proper Paige!

Love,

Kai