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June 4, 2012 by Kat

Your Art Here

Walking along the street this weekend I came across an interesting antique shop. The empty frames propped up outside the door seemed to be saying, “Your art here.”

I’ve been thinking a lot about art on the wall. Since my exhibition ended, I’ve been moving around frames and hanging prints up in our house. I’ve also recently really dug into learning more about creating fine art prints of my own (more on that later). So it’s no wonder I saw the empty frames and thought about what I would put in them.

What art would you put in these frames? Would it be something you have created? Would it be a recent work, or an older favorite?

PS – I’ve also been playing around with creating presets in Lightroom. I’ve created a preset called “Your Art Here” which I used in the processing of these two images. If you would like to try it, you can click here to download.

Filed Under: The Kat Eye View of the World Tagged With: antique, frame, lightroom, preset, Seattle, shop, Washington, window

November 21, 2011 by Kat

The Next Step: A Grand Opening

Walking down the path, Oregon

The Green Path

While everyone else was choosing a word for the year back in December and January, I chose a poem: Start Close In by David Whyte. I chose this poem as a reminder that you have to take the first step, to go down any path. And that first step is the hardest. It is full of fear and uncertainty. Full of excitement at the same time.

I’m reminded of all of this today as I take a first step with this announcement: The Kat Eye Studio Shop is open! I’ve opened a shop on RedBubble, where I’ve made selected work available for order as greeting cards, postcards and quality prints of various types and sizes. Whether you would like a matted or framed print for your wall, or a card to connect with a friend through the mail, you can find it here. Just in time to order a few holiday gifts!

Opening the shop is one of those big “first steps.” It’s been on my list of things to do since moving back to the US, but there was so much else I had to get done first:
Start up my classes. Check.
Complete the postcard swap. Check.
Move to a new website. Check.
Figure out how to sell my work. Today I can check that off as well.

As excited as I am for this step, I am nervous too. As with any new venture like this, it brings up all sorts of uncomfortable emotions. Fears that whisper “who do I think I am” in my head. But I’m pushing through, taking the step I don’t want to take, by actually announcing the shop opening here on the blog rather than letting it quietly sit on my site to be discovered. That’s what I really wanted to do this morning – talk about anything and everything else here and hope the shop just gets “discovered.” But I’ve learned over time that things don’t work so well that way…

I hope that you will take a moment to visit the new Kat Eye Studio shop. Let me know if there are any images that you would like to see added. I’ll be working on adding more of my favorites over time, but for today… A first step is enough.

Filed Under: The Kat Eye View of the World Tagged With: green, Medford, Oregon, path, Rogue River, shop

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