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Painter // Larkspur + Laurel

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Ocean Watercolor

April 8, 2015 kaitmastersLeave a comment

I worked on a quick ocean watercolor piece to mail to a friend this week. It was wonderful to work in watercolor again & to be reminded why I switched it up senior year of art school and worked heavily in just watercolor.

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These baseball prints are en route to South Carolina for a precious nursery along with some botanical prints 😍 Illustrations like these are a departure from my normal nature-based work, but I still enjoy them immensely!

Thank you. For the love, the support, the desire to understand better. I’m so grateful for this space and for the community that technology can cultivate. . As I’ve grown as an artist and, yes, even as a brand I’ve realized how personal my voice as an artist has become. When I first decided to pursue painting full time in 2015, I felt awkward about using my name for my business. I didn’t know my direction or voice and chose a name instead that had sentimental meaning. Larkspur was my grandmother’s favorite flower (her sister was a painter and I wear her engagement ring as my own). Laurel was my middle name until I got married. So even though I sign my name on all my work, my brand came under a completely different name. . My work has changed since then. My voice has developed. I’ve become part of a community that’s given me the gift of relationships that have helped me see how powerful personal connection is. . I’m working on a big project that’s also a bit scary and feels bold to me. I’m working with an amazing designer to bring my work under my name. It’s been an incredible (and involved!) process so far, and while we aren’t quite there yet... I wanted to share to stay tuned for changes that reflect what this work has become for me—a part of who I am. . Love, Kait

A friend recently asked me why I haven’t shared more about pregnancy on this account. In a time with so much support in the Mom-boss/Mom-entrepreneur space, it’s still been tough for me to open up about what this season of life is like. . From the struggle to find a provider willing to care for me during pregnancy to all the extra testing and coordinating care between two specialists in two different hospital networks... it’s been overwhelming. . You see, there aren’t very many of us in the first place—prevalence is estimated at 20 cases per 100,000 in the United States (or about 60,000 of us). There aren’t a whole lot of MG patients who are on the same treatment protocol getting ready to have their first child. I know dozens women who have had successful pregnancies after diagnosis. I know less than a handful of women who had their first child while receiving IVIG as their primary treatment bi-weekly. It means that sometimes it’s been lonely—care becomes very individualistic when there aren’t many cases to use as a roadmap. Less camaraderie, less community. . I’ve mourned many losses of normalcy over the last 17 years—that is an inevitable part of living with an incurable rare disease. I’ve been wading through those emotions again. Being advised not to travel at my 17 week appointment (much earlier than we anticipated—I’m 23 weeks now) meant losing out on the opportunity to celebrate this stage of life with most of our family and friends. No travel back east to see friends from the Carolinas or Trav’s family in Maryland. No travel to California to visit the office or see my family in the valley. . It’s been complicated to navigate these emotions. Even more complicated to know how to share them. . If I’ve learned anything from the community I’ve found through my work, it’s that telling our stories well (and when we are ready) can make waves that reach far beyond what we can imagine. For me that’s meant friends, connections, and opportunities that share a common thread of “I thought I was the only one”. . I might not share much about this journey right now, but I promise when I do it is so that others can feel maybe just a little bit less alone.

The weather has shifted and we’ve had our first week of quintessential foggy rainy cloudy weather rolling in that makes me want to snuggle up with tea all day! . Reference photo by @an_d_b

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