**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!

Projects and Goals for 2014

Projects and Goals for 2014 Yesterday was my birthday, so that was my official start  to 2014, and this year I have three big things I'm working  to accomplish. :) The Magician's Cat, both ebook AND a print edition A support campaign to continue art on Stolen Child Tarot A second collected art book of my demons, The Lost Key to Infernal Spirits of the New World Read on for details on each!

Artwork for Magician's Cat is a whisker away from complete!   I should be done by mid March and have the ebook formatted  and available (FREE!) for all by early April!  Also after a little  research with a printer here in Austin, and due to popular  demand, I'm going to try to put out a PRINT edition! I will be Kickstarting that in late April, and the campaign will  offer opportunities to grab some of the original art from the  book as well as other goodies! In the spirit of the original  project, copies of the print edition will also go to Central  Texas SPCA for fundraising!

For those following the Monster Project... I have a confession to make...  they aren't monsters.  They're demons. And I have too many of them. I can't even begin to list all the places they arrive from or how  many just wander in.  It starts with one or two and the next  thing you know your place is packed.  I'm not a hoarder --  I prefer the term 'rescuer'.  Anyway, the neighbors are complaining, so I've made the hard decision  to start adopting them out.  In fact, I'm going to start this Friday, March 7th. Adoption fees I hope will cover my other art book project, The Lost Key to Infernal Spirits of the New World, a book of 72 portraits of my favorite of these homeless horrors. Friday a special email bulletin will go out to those interested in adoption. You've been warned.

The Future of The Stolen Child Tarot Good News!  In the next couple of months, I will be launching  a Patreon campaign devoted 100% to the completion of The Stolen Child Tarot. What is Patreon? It's a project site allowing creators to connect with people who  want to be a patron of their work.  It's goal is to assist creators with  long term funding for larger/longer creative endeavors -- you can check out their site here, but in short I would be setting goals  of completing one or more of the remaining 50 cards per month and asking those interested to pledge $1-$2 a month in exchange for behind the scenes news, sneak peeks of progress and whatever other goodies I can come up with. I truly want to continue Stolen Child at the level of quality  I've put in so far and I feel that the Patreon campaign is a  great option to support such a large endeavor.  I hope you'll check it out when I bring it live and consider supporting the deck! :)

And last but not least, I'm running a Spring sale on some of my  acrylic pieces in my etsy shop!

Monica's Etsy Shop

Happy Halloween! Free coloring book! Shop Sale!!

I'm still cooking away working on The Magician's Cat, my free online children's book. For Halloween, I've just compiled a bunch of the black and white illustrations into coloring pages.  They are in pdf and FREE for you to download and print for your kids or yourself!
They're hiding right through this link:
Magician’s Cat Coloring Book
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5gn_WvYurAuUlI2QnNvS295S2M/edit

Also, I'm having a Halloween sale in my Etsy shop!  

Use code "TrickRTreat" and get 15% off decks, prints, my new jewelry -- the whole schmoodle!

https://www.etsy.com/shop/MonicaLKnighton

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? ^-^

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!

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!