Apr 25, 2013
Custom Shop Branding and Graphics Assistance!
Here's my full custom shop pack for Crescent City Couture!
Do you need a matching shop pack for Etsy or Facebook? I am offering a full pack starting at $300!
Includes:
Facebook Banner
Etsy Shop Banner
Up to 3 Shop Banner Variations (vacation, sale announcements, etc)
1-2 Profile Avatars
Up to 10 matching shop buttons - you choose the message
Business Card design
What you provide:
- The vision!
- Email me samples of shops whose looks you admire to give me an idea of flavor.
- I can use and color match clip art that is 300 dpi -- take a look at digital scrapbook pieces and let me know what you're thinking. Many digital images are under $5.
- Color scheme! Crescent City Couture's entire color scheme was based on the clip art of the feathered mask.
- Show me some fonts you like!
- Some time to review samples and give me feedback - Be ready to email back and forth to make adjustments and get things just right.
If you have a lovely collage idea in your head, I can help bring it to life and format it into matching shop components! While I can adjust to some degree existing clip art, this work does not include creating original art from scratch or vector logo design.
Have a smaller project? I can do spot adjustments for $20 an hour.
I recently did a quick conversion for Marci who needed rubber stamp designs created from low resolution jpegs off her sticker and Etsy banner components. This involved some clean-up, art tweaking and layout, but now she has high resolution files suitable for making custom rubber stamps!
This will allow her to stamp her brand on fabrics...
...and this one will let her stamp stationary, invoices and the back of her business cards.
Let me know what you need and I'll give you an estimate!
Mar 11, 2013
Last Blast! Win Original Art from The Stolen Child Tarot!
Wanna win some art? Back The Stolen Child Tarot at any level and be entered in a drawing for a piece of original art from the deck!
Check out the latest project update on the campaign for details!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/774786282/stolen-child-tarot-complete-the-78-card-deck
Check out the latest project update on the campaign for details!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/774786282/stolen-child-tarot-complete-the-78-card-deck
Mar 10, 2013
Lovely Review for The Stolen Child Tarot
Morrigann just published this glowing and detailed article for the Stolen Child Tarot's Major Arcana edition. I have to go to my closet and blush for a while...
http://www.le-chaudron-de-morrigann.com/the-stolen-child-tarot-de-monica-knighton-a79228983#
http://www.le-chaudron-de-morrigann.com/the-stolen-child-tarot-de-monica-knighton-a79228983#
Oh yeah, and there's still 5 days left in the campaign on Kickstarter to complete the deck - if the universe wants to throw it a Hail Mary pass:
Mar 8, 2013
Gryphons for the Magician's Cat!
Mar 6, 2013
Mar 4, 2013
2 of Flames pencils
Quickie peek at the pencils for Two of Flames... If you want to see this deck completed, please support my Kickstarter. It ends March 14th!
Mar 1, 2013
Page of Brine, with pencil and ink process
Only 2 weeks left on the Kickstarter for Stolen Child Tarot and it's at 23% funding. That's a big gap to close. If you want to see this deck come to fruition, please consider pledging or sharing the campaign!
Feb 25, 2013
Queen of Zephyrs
Here's the new painting for The Queen of Zephyrs!
If you've dropped by this post from Aeclectic Tarot, welcome! You may or may not know I'm currently running a Kickstarter campaign to try to expand Stolen Child to a 78 card deck.
Aeclectic Tarot feels that the forum has been abused in the past by people promoting Kickstarter or IndieGoGo art campaigns, and has banned posting links or other information about them. I totally understand them protecting the forum, but I would also like to mention that I've run two successful campaigns that included completion and delivery of all rewards within the schedules I outlined. I'm sorry if other people mismanaged projects or left people hanging -- but it wasn't me! :)
Anyway, when I have new art, I'll point people here. I would love it if you would share the campaign with your tarot friends -- it won't happen unless the campaign reaches it's funding goal by March 16th.
I'm a self employed artist. I used to work full time in animal welfare non-profit and I've been job hunting since 2010. Chasing commissions, selling online or at art shows and odd jobs is what has kept me going, along with my rainy day savings from the days of employment and selling personal possessions. I bring this up because when I say I don't have the resources to do this in my spare time, it's the plain reality of the situation.
If you've enjoyed my work or are intrigued by what you've seen of the Major Arcana, please consider supporting or sharing the new campaign to complete the deck:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/774786282/stolen-child-tarot-complete-the-78-card-deck
Thanks so much!
Monica
If you've dropped by this post from Aeclectic Tarot, welcome! You may or may not know I'm currently running a Kickstarter campaign to try to expand Stolen Child to a 78 card deck.
Aeclectic Tarot feels that the forum has been abused in the past by people promoting Kickstarter or IndieGoGo art campaigns, and has banned posting links or other information about them. I totally understand them protecting the forum, but I would also like to mention that I've run two successful campaigns that included completion and delivery of all rewards within the schedules I outlined. I'm sorry if other people mismanaged projects or left people hanging -- but it wasn't me! :)
Anyway, when I have new art, I'll point people here. I would love it if you would share the campaign with your tarot friends -- it won't happen unless the campaign reaches it's funding goal by March 16th.
I'm a self employed artist. I used to work full time in animal welfare non-profit and I've been job hunting since 2010. Chasing commissions, selling online or at art shows and odd jobs is what has kept me going, along with my rainy day savings from the days of employment and selling personal possessions. I bring this up because when I say I don't have the resources to do this in my spare time, it's the plain reality of the situation.
If you've enjoyed my work or are intrigued by what you've seen of the Major Arcana, please consider supporting or sharing the new campaign to complete the deck:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/774786282/stolen-child-tarot-complete-the-78-card-deck
Thanks so much!
Monica
Feb 18, 2013
Stolen Child Tarot's 2 of Zephyrs
Feb 15, 2013
Goin' batty for a good cause!
Just wanted to share some happy news! I made some larger prints of The Lovers available to a fundraising campaign to help rehabilitate fruit bats struck by the recent heat wave in Australia. Probably the most heart breaking thing about this event is the number of pups it wiped out or left with heat stroke.
You can check out the campaign here: (Warning, video contains footage of heat stroke deaths as well as sweet baby bats in rehab.)
I just saw the totals from the effort, and the contribution of The Lovers prints raised $280!
This would not have been possible without Kickstarter supporters making the art for The Stolen Child Tarot happen! What a great chain reaction!
Feb 14, 2013
Feb 7, 2013
It's Coming! Let's Complete the Stolen Child Tarot!
I am gearing up to launch a BIG Kickstarter campaign on Feb 14th in the hopes of expanding The Stolen Child Tarot to a complete 78 card deck -- and I need your help!
I want to make this my project for 2013, but doing 50 + paintings and covering printing/shipping etc is a lot of work and expense. That means that even with tight and careful budgeting, this will be the largest funding goal I've campaigned for on Kickstarter -- and I need everyone's help to make this happen!
Which is why I'm trying to get the word out early and before the launch!
Why early? Let me explain...
**This is super important and could potentially make or break the project!** See, the first campaign for the Major Arcana of Stolen Child didn't reach it's goal. As an introvert, my meek and polite attempts at PR and advertising kind of suck, and by the time a lot of people learned about Kickstarter and the campaign, well, oops... Too late!
However, when I reran the campaign, so many people were ready and waiting, that it jumped out of the gate at the launch! Why is this important? Because it made the project meet Kickstarter's hot and popular criteria, which led to them featuring it on various Kickstarter pages, which led to a boost of about 20% of BRAND NEW SUPPORTERS! These were people who had never heard of it and weren't connected to my circles. To meet the funding goal for a project this size, getting that kind of boost again could make or break the campaign!
My hope is that we can create enough pre-campaign buzz to get that boost again -- will you help? If you can, won't you share the news with your friends, tarot groups, forums, and let them know that Feb 14th is the big day?
If you're a fan of The Stolen Child Tarot, on Feb 14th, won't you be my Valentine and pledge or support the project? If you know you want to pledge, can I ask you to do it as soon as you can after the launch to increase our chances of being featured on Kickstarter?
I will post updates and launch links here, as well as on Facebook, Etsy, tarot forums, etc. You can also get updates by signing up for my art newsletter in that upper left hand box!
I want to make this my project for 2013, but doing 50 + paintings and covering printing/shipping etc is a lot of work and expense. That means that even with tight and careful budgeting, this will be the largest funding goal I've campaigned for on Kickstarter -- and I need everyone's help to make this happen!
Which is why I'm trying to get the word out early and before the launch!
Why early? Let me explain...
**This is super important and could potentially make or break the project!** See, the first campaign for the Major Arcana of Stolen Child didn't reach it's goal. As an introvert, my meek and polite attempts at PR and advertising kind of suck, and by the time a lot of people learned about Kickstarter and the campaign, well, oops... Too late!
However, when I reran the campaign, so many people were ready and waiting, that it jumped out of the gate at the launch! Why is this important? Because it made the project meet Kickstarter's hot and popular criteria, which led to them featuring it on various Kickstarter pages, which led to a boost of about 20% of BRAND NEW SUPPORTERS! These were people who had never heard of it and weren't connected to my circles. To meet the funding goal for a project this size, getting that kind of boost again could make or break the campaign!
My hope is that we can create enough pre-campaign buzz to get that boost again -- will you help? If you can, won't you share the news with your friends, tarot groups, forums, and let them know that Feb 14th is the big day?
If you're a fan of The Stolen Child Tarot, on Feb 14th, won't you be my Valentine and pledge or support the project? If you know you want to pledge, can I ask you to do it as soon as you can after the launch to increase our chances of being featured on Kickstarter?
I will post updates and launch links here, as well as on Facebook, Etsy, tarot forums, etc. You can also get updates by signing up for my art newsletter in that upper left hand box!
Jan 20, 2013
Goblins!
Yay! Completed the first color illustration for the Magician's Cat! If you're new to the project, The Magician's Cat is a free children's ebook I funded on Kickstarter. You can view the project page from the link on the right, or check back here for more updates. It'll will be completed this Oct 2013!
More to come soon!
Dec 7, 2012
It's SHOW TIME!
So, if you've wanted to take a peek at some of my work in person, or just say 'hi', I'll be at several arts shows this month! Check out the Where's Monica post on the left to see links and dates to my upcoming shows!
And would you look at this booth? Would you ever guess it's mostly thrifted furnishings? :)
And would you look at this booth? Would you ever guess it's mostly thrifted furnishings? :)
I've also finished a few more wearable art pieces that I'll be taking along - but some of them are already in my etsy shop here.
Here's a sneak peek:
Oct 10, 2012
More pencils for Stolen Child Tarot
I'm still hoping to expand The Stolen Child into a full tarot deck. In the meantime, I thought I'd share a couple pencils of minor arcana cards in the works.
Sep 27, 2012
Ghost Mice!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/774786282/the-magicians-cat-an-illustrated-free-childrens-eb
Boris
My favorite quote from Boris Karloff when asked about his Frankenstein work was "The monster has always been very good to me..." (It helps if you hear it in that voice)
That's right Mr. Karloff, "Friend... ...Good!"
That's right Mr. Karloff, "Friend... ...Good!"
Sep 21, 2012
New Halloween Project! The Magician's Cat!
In honor of Halloween, and because I loves to draw the creepy crawlies, I just launched a Kickstarter to illustrate The Magician's Cat. This project will yield a free online book for kids and everyone, AND a portion of the artwork will be donated to the Central Texas SPCA for fundraising! (Both Jilly and Yoyo are alumni of CTSPCA!)
I hope you'll check out my project and help spread the word!
I hope you'll check out my project and help spread the word!
Jun 13, 2012
Put a bird on it!
A couple new miniatures. These are both watercolor and ink, and are 1 inch rounds.
Fairy Wren
Raven
Mar 21, 2012
Feb 12, 2012
It's Happening! Stolen Child is funded and still going!
So a double woot woot to everyone supporting it because apparently the second time's the charm! My project on Kickstarter, The Stolen Child Tarot reached and surpassed funding! Between working on the last bit of the art I've been hopping around the interwebs tooting it's horn and writing more Thank You notes than Jimmy Fallon. (Mine aren't as funny, sorry, but they're still very heartfelt...)
I'm still working on the last few cards and the designs for the card backs and end plates, but wanted to post some more pics up here!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/774786282/stolen-child-tarot-a-limited-edition-major-arcana
I'm still working on the last few cards and the designs for the card backs and end plates, but wanted to post some more pics up here!
Feb 7, 2012
Dec 31, 2011
More miniature pet portraits!
I held off posting some of the new guys since they were going out as Christmas presents. Sandy Claws hates it if you ruin the surprise!
Dec 12, 2011
Dec 11, 2011
Eeyore's Birthday!
Eeyore's Birthday! I'm proud to say that I've produced art and layout for the t-shirts for Eeyore's Birthday on three different years! This one is hands down my favorite:
Nov 29, 2011
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