Some Highlights from September 2025.

I will be making a zine of vegetable art each month this year. Here is the vegetable artwork for September, Acorn squash and the vegetable art zine for September.

This year I’m working on a series of digital paintings made in Inkscape of abstract grids of multi-color squares. Check out the September 2025 paintings and print out a free zine of the series.

Over the last few years I wrote poetry based prompts posted on mastodon by a community of writers who share haiku prompts everyday. Read the haiku here. I just finished putting together a book collection of this poetry, Minor Transient Documents of Everyday Life, three line recipes, short stories, jokes, riddles, science projects, love notes, horrors, confessions, and memories. buy it here through blurb. If you are interested in selling this book in your book store on consignment, please email me at info@katherinemontalto.com.

I’m too much of an introvert to go on a book tour so I’m sending this Haiku Machine out into the world for me. It’s like that Zoltar thing from the movie Big, only instead of granting wishes it just dispenses haiku that gives you a little insight into my strange mind. And a piece of candy for your trouble. If you’ve got a space that can host a residency in Metro Detroit, drop me a line, I’ll split the quarters with you.

This year I thought I might experiment with form, but it turns out, all I’ve written are non-rhyming sonnets. 14 lines, 10 syllables each. 3 Quatrains then end with a couplet. The poem I wrote this month is called The myth of explosion. Print out a free zine of it here.

Zine libraries are welcome to print out my zines and put them in their collections. Please contact me to let me know.

It’s should be autumn here in the northern hemisphere but it is still in the 70s and 80s. So. . .  Get my art on t-shirts in my redbubble store.

Here are my newest Redbubble designs:

2025 09 sketchbook 01
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/173578237

2025 09 sketchbook 02
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/173578562

2025 09 sketchbook 03
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/173578985

2025 09 sketchbook 04
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/173586706

2025 09 sketchbook 05
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/173586964

2025 09 sketchbook 06
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/173587161 

You can also find my art on stuff in my TeePublic store.

Subscription Package

Here is the subscription box for September 2025.

If you’d like to support me on a continuous regular basis you can set up a monthly donation to my art supply fund. There are levels of regular donation you can contribute, everything over a dollar comes with rewards. If you’d like to make a one-time contribution go to PayPal, Ko-fi LiberaPay, Amazon Wishlist

All of my original artwork, writing, and music are available for purchase and for licensing. I am available for other creative services as well. See them here. If interested please contact me here.

Some Highlights from August 2025.

I will be making a zine of vegetable art each month this year. Here is the vegetable artwork for August, tomatoes and the vegetable art zine for August.

This year I’m working on a series of digital paintings made in Inkscape of abstract grids of multi-color squares. Check out the August 2025 paintings and print out a free zine of the series.

Over the last few years I wrote poetry based prompts posted on mastodon by a community of writers who share haiku prompts everyday. Read the haiku here. I just finished putting together a book collection of this poetry, Minor Transient Documents of Everyday Life, three line recipes, short stories, jokes, riddles, science projects, love notes, horrors, confessions, and memories. buy it here through blurb. If you are interested in selling this book in your book store on consignment, please email me at info@katherinemontalto.com.

This year I thought I might experiment with form, but it turns out, all I’ve written are non-rhyming sonnets. 14 lines, 10 syllables each. 3 Quatrains then end with a couplet. The poem I wrote this month was inspired by Corn Sweat and heat domes in the Midwest. Read the poem here. Print out a free zine of it here.

Zine libraries are welcome to print out my zines and put them in their collections. Please contact me to let me know.

It’s Summer here in the northern hemisphere. Get my art on t-shirts in my redbubble store.

Here are my newest Redbubble designs:

Three Heirloom Tomatoes BW
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/172957504

Three Heirloom Tomatoes in Crayon
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/172957606

2025 08 sketchbook 01
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/172957771

2025 08 sketchbook 02
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/172959520

2025 08 sketchbook 03
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/172959660

2025 08 sketchbook 04
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/172959769

2025 08 sketchbook 05
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/172959880

2025 08 sketchbook 06
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/172960003

You can also find my art on stuff in my TeePublic store.

Subscription Package

Here is the subscription box for August 2025.

If you’d like to support me on a continuous regular basis you can set up a monthly donation to my art supply fund. There are levels of regular donation you can contribute, everything over a dollar comes with rewards. If you’d like to make a one-time contribution go to PayPal, Ko-fi LiberaPay, Amazon Wishlist

All of my original artwork, writing, and music are available for purchase and for licensing. I am available for other creative services as well. See them here. If interested please contact me here.