Kitty Kilian, To hell with anything unrefined, 10 x 15 cm/ 4 x 6 in, mixed media Don Marquis was an American writer/columnist who in 1916 the introduced the poetic cockroach Archy in his column in The New York Sun. Archy types poems on Don Marquis’s typewriter, at night. He has a friend called [...]
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10 things I expected out of life when I was 10 but did not get
Kitty Kilian, ‘And you think YOUR family’s dysfunctional?’, mixed media, 10 x 15 cm / 4 x 6 When I was ten I expected lots of things to happen when I grew up – these are the things that didn’t: I would be smashingly beautiful I would be very, very sensible I would marry [...]
Women who blog and say fuck
Kitty Kilian, At times she felt like she was living someone else’s life, mixed media on paper 10 x 15 cm / 4 x 6 in Women who blog What is it with women who blog? So many women have blogs, yet so few of them WRITE. Most seem happy to post embroidery, freshly [...]
Do you want to be my rolemother? (It’s not about seduction any longer)
Kitty Kilian, It is not about seduction any longer, mixed media, 17 x 24 cm Last week I did something brave. Something daring. Some would probably say: and stupid. Well, sometimes you just have to take your chances in life, and act. So I did: I added my year of birth to my Linkedin [...]
She had decided ..
Kitty Kilian, mixed media, 10 x 15 cm I found her in a family portrait of long ago. Amidst her parents and sisters she draws all attention. Not because she is so pretty, but because she looks so disappointed. You can tell that what she has experienced of life so far does not make [...]
Even on holidays, I work
Kitty Kilian, Even on holidays, I work, mixed media 17 x 24 cm / 7 x 9.5 in Workaholics We laugh about them, we marry them, we pity them. Sometimes we ARE them (yes, artists too; artists especially, I would say). And all that while work is vastly overrated in our society. I remember [...]
She threw a party
Kitty Kilian, A party, mixed media on paper, 17,5 x 24 cm For years I avoided parties as much as I could. I was one of those people who was always afraid I would not know what to say when time came for me to say something. I have been known to leave parties [...]
She wondered
Kitty Kilian, She wondered if children really improved a marriage, mixed media, 17,5 x 24 cm I remember the baby days. Smell was all of a sudden an important sense. I remember looking at my firstborn for the first time. Nothing had ever been beautiful before him. I felt like I had finally arrived. [...]
Sterrenwacht 3
I get my stamps out. Today I want to do the lettering first, although I usually save it for the last. This time though I have chosen a pretty weird combination of colours and I am not sure if I am going to pull it off. The lettering will be crucial in tying it all [...]
Sterrenwacht 2: video
Yesterday I selected which pictures to use of the spot I am portraying – de Sterrenwacht in Utrecht. I printed them and attached a few to the panel. I want to make some changes to the guy before adhering him. So that if I screw up, which happens a lot, I don’t have to start [...]
Sterrenwacht: process
I finished doing my taxes and lots of other chores so finally I get to start on the long planned new mixed media series, to be made into prints. Yay! The first one will be about Utrecht. One of the loveliest places around town is the semi-circular park built on the former town walls. And [...]
Yay, I am teaching an Art Journaling workshop!
In 2007, on a holiday in the US, I picked up a book about art journaling. It was Lynn Perrella’s Artist’s Journals and Sketchbooks. I loved it because it was crafts, not FINE ART. It was about very personal stuff, not big concepts. It was about images AND text. And is was meant to be [...]
30 days of Side Stitch
Kathryn and I did it! We worked our way through an entire month of Side Stiches. Kathryn Clarke, a San Francisco based fiber artist, made small textile studies and I cut and sewed and painted over yesterday’s newspapers every morning. The idea was to start each day with half an hour of creative play – [...]
Politician
Side stich # 19 is a politician. Side stitch # 17 cried for help. No connection, of course.
Side stitch 10
10. September 8 2010. I am totally ashamed about the develish pact the Christian – so called – democrats, the right wing VVD and the even extremer right wing PVV are forging. And off to the queen they run again, trying for a second time to establish this monstrous government. Somebody save us from fools [...]
SIDE STITCH
A half hour sketch to start the day – in a different medium than my usual drawing and eraser cutting. Just playing around with a stack of leftover newspapers and my sewing machine. I will be doing this for the next month and so will my pal Kathryn Clark from San Francisco – but as [...]
Social networking for artists
I have been doing a great online course about online presence for artists on Pikaland. They called it an artist bootcamp. I have been asked about it so much that I will tell some more about it sometime soon. For now I wanted to give vent to some of my mixed feelings.. The internet has [...]
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