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Making progress

Apparently, tomorrow is a very elastic term with me. lolBut, back to what I was talking about last week... So, the water turned out fine once it was dry, it wasn't exactly what I was hoping for, but...

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The BIG finish

Or rather the little finish? :)When I left you, I had pinned and even stay stitched some bits of fabric to the woman in the foreground in order to give her that 3D look that's kind of my thing. I was a...

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The calm before the storm...

One of my favourite things about my studio, is something that I don't get to enjoy very often. Our house faces west, and my attic studio has 3 deep-set windows: one is large and north facing, one is...

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The Long Journey Home

A week ago Sunday, BSP and I got into our casual clothes; packed the car with rubber boots, warm socks, and a couple of small pieces of my art, and after a stop for coffee and bagels, told Leslie (our...

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In spite of it all, ordinary life continues...

An Ontario Honeybee pictured for reference as I worked In the aftermath of my journey home; I should be busy in my studio.  Lord knows I have deadlines fast approaching for commissions, I would like to...

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Sweet To The Soul

I don't know whether I want to talk about "process" here, or PROCESS. lol By which I mean, the process by which I made this piece, or the processing I've been doing while making it. As I said in my...

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Toronto Black Womens' Collective

Earlier this year, Freedom School (an initiative of Black Lives Matter), commissioned me to make learning tools for their school again. You may recall that they asked me to make five pieces for them...

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Patterns

On Monday, after a bit of rambling (lol), I told you about the thought process behind the learning tool for the Black Women's Collective.A group of women sitting in a living room, discussing how to...

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Toronto Black Women's Collective

Ta da! The final learning tool for the Toronto Black Womens' Collective.Throughout, you'll see their interests, slogans and accomplishments; and to me, the most significant thing they did (other than...

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Starling in Hawthorne

Happy new year!First finish of 2018, first blog post in many moons, who knows, it could be the start of something new!I started this in 2017 - maybe even the beginning of 2017, I'm not sure - stitching...

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Trying something...

EDIT: So, blogging from my phone with the app didn't work. Bizarre spacing, and the picture didn't attach!So, I had a bit of a conversation with someone on FB today about blogging *waves* and she...

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The WIP

About ten years ago, I got four prints of hand-painted bird panels from Laura Kemshall.  I thought they were gorgeous, and the quality of the printing was incredible, but I couldn't figure out what to...

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Go Bag

Because I'm going to be doing hand work on these pieces, I'll be bringing them to work with me and working on them instead of reading at lunch time. Doing handwork like this in public always feels a...

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Tools of the Trade

For Christmas I received some generous gift certificates to fabric stores that I frequent, so recently, I hit up the January sales and purchased fabric and notions. I have a few pair of embroidery...

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So about nobody being interested

I was out for lunch yesterday, and chose a table by the window so I would have good light for stitching when I finished eating. I had been doing so for a little while when my light was suddenly...

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Best laid plans

This is another piece in the group of birds I'm going to be working on. I seriously love how my hand-dyes look with these birds even if I do say so myself (this one is a disperse dye). I was planning...

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Disperse Dye

"Winter is Coming" (c) Kit Lang 2014 background composed of pieced disperse dyed fabricsAfter having a conversation with someone on FB yesterday about disperse dye, I was inspired to do a post about...

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Augh!

Photo shows a Canadian artist in the wee hours of Sunday night - about to head to bed* Lol  Since we spoke last (uhhhhh…3 weeks ago?); the following happened.  I was at work, and all of a sudden, I...

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Hello

It occurred to me that I should either delete this blog (or perhaps the other one) or actually post. As I typed that, I realized that what I SHOULD do is delete THIS blog (i.e. the Kit Lang Art blog)...

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Illustration, at last

I had mentioned the last time we talked that a publisher had contacted me and asked that I illustrate a  poem in their upcoming book called “Power Poems for Small Humans”.Eventually, I was paired with...

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