**Flings Confetti** THE MAGICIAN'S CAT PRINT EDITION IS FUNDED!

Yay!  I will be doing to drawing for the winner of the custom animal necklace soon and posting a video to announce the winner! :)

Let's Make a Print Version of Magician's Cat, Okay?

So yep, I launched a campaign to try to fund a small printing of The Magician's Cat, my children's book.  The 20 day campaign had a great first day!

A $13 pledge gets you a copy of the book, signed and sketched in, and if we reach our stretch goal to increase the print run, everyone will also get a bonus!  Here's the link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/774786282/the-magicians-cat-print-edition-of-the-ebook

The Magician's Cat is Ready!

My children's ebook is now available for download in multi formats! 

downloadable PDF

ePub

Mobi 

And I'm working hard to launch a campaign for a PRINT edition later this week!

Please Adopt a Demon. It's the right thing to do.

It is with a heavy heart that I report today that I have opened an adoption program for the demons.  I've never liked the term 'hoarder' -- I've always preferred  'rescuer' but, either way, my neighbors, the HOA and the more timid of the garbage men are having their way and I've been told they have to go.

I hope you'll consider opening your home to one of these deserving entities and love or at least tolerate them as much as I have.  Click the big guy for the link.

*sigh*

Monsters! Monkeys! August Shows!

I am wrapping up assembly on my new jewelry designs and getting ready to send out Kickstarter rewards!  Also, the new pieces will be unveiled at the Austin Craft Riot's Summer Show this August 17th and 18th at Austin Music Hall.  If you're in the Austin area, you should check it out -- there will be tons of handmade, Swag bags given away to the first 24 entrants each day, Yeti Frozen Custard will be there, it's family friendly and FREE!  Come say 'hi'!

The Bee and the Raven pieces were designs produced by the Kickstarter campaign, but I'd like to put some unusual variations into production too -- sort of a small batch/special edition type of thing.  The Winged Monkey with beads below is a gussied up prototype, but I've decided it will be the first of the variations to produce.  I hope to have it and another new design out by the Summer Show!  Also, be on the lookout for my seahorse/hippocampus in sea glass colored acrylic, and white wood editions of the Skeleton Key and Soaring Heart Designs.  I'm looking at options to fund their production for the Christmas show season! 

The round winged monkey design looks like a batch of cookies, doesn't it? :)

Oh, and did I mention the weekend after ACR Summer Show is Here There Be Monsters Con?  This mini-con will be at Vuka on S 1st in Austin and will feature monsters, game demos, pro special effects make-up artists, monsters, local authors and artists and did I mention MONSTERS?  I've been hatching new ones as quick as I can for the event.  Here's one now...

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

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#

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:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/774786282/stolen-child-tarot-complete-the-78-card-deck

Gryphons for the Magician's Cat!

It's a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it...  This is my first color two page spread for the book and the first of the custom critter rewards fulfilled!  Still truckin'!  How many days till Halloween? ^-^

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!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/774786282/stolen-child-tarot-complete-the-78-card-deck

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!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/774786282/stolen-child-tarot-complete-the-78-card-deck

Stolen Child Tarot's 2 of Zephyrs

Finished up the painting for the 2 of Zephyrs!  If you haven't checked out my Kickstarter campaign to complete the Stolen Child Tarot into a 78 card deck, please do!  We're at 12% funding and we need to hit our goal by March 16th to make this happen!

It's official!  I just launched the Kickstarter campaign to expand The Stolen Child Tarot into a complete 78 card tarot!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/774786282/stolen-child-tarot-complete-the-78-card-deck

Please, if you've enjoyed the Major Arcana work, help me share this campaign and get the word out!

Hope you have a Happy Valentine's Day!!!

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!

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!

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.

Ghost Mice!

Just finished the color work for my Ghost Mice pendant!  This is one of the pieces that's a reward for supporting The Magician's Cat children's book.  If you haven't checked out the campaign yet, please take a look!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/774786282/the-magicians-cat-an-illustrated-free-childrens-eb

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!

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

Stolen Child Tarot/Kickstarter conclusion

So my Kickstarter campaign to try to get the Stolen Child Tarot off the ground unfortunately did not succeed.  I met a lot of great folks and truly appreciate all the help and enthusiasm of everyone who supported the project.  Due to my current financial situation, I'm not able to continue with the project at this time, but hopefully in the future I'll be able to come back to it.  If you would like to be added to a list to receive news about it, please drop me a line.

Thanks so much,
Monica