Author Archives: Katherine Montalto

2024 02 Newsletter

Some Highlights from February 2024.


I will be making a zine of fruit art each month this year. Here is the fruit artwork for February and the fruit art zine for February .

I made sketchbook art this month with an xp pen and krita water color brushes . Print out a free zine of the art here.

I’ve been writing poetry based on a mastodon  community of writers who share haiku prompts everyday. Read the haiku here. Print out a zine of the poems 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 winter here in the northern hemisphere. Get my art on sweatshirts and hoodies in my redbubble store.

Here are my newest Redbubble  designs:

2024 02 sketchbook 04
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/157925744

2024 02 sketchbook 05
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/157925450

2024 02 sketchbook 03
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/157925107

2024 02 sketchbook 02
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/157924808

You can also find my art on stuff in my TeePublic and Society6 stores.


Subscription Package

Here is the subscription box for February 2024.

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 here.


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.

2024 03 Haiku

restless
pacing back and forth
trapped inside this very small space
a caged animal

perfume
overwhelming scent
makes me nauseous and dizzy
it crushes my brain

français
a new language learned
each new word fighting for space
inside my full mind

script
practice in my head
all the words I want to say
find the right order

carrot
growing underground
green leaves reaching for the sun
crispy orange flesh

wind
the tall uncut grass
urban prairie of neglect
billows on the breeze

2024 03 Sketchbook

marker on paper

2024 02 Haiku

sparkle
a piece of glitter
from some long ago project
stuck to my sweater

sorry
yes you are sorry
you’re the sorriest sorry
to ever sorry

towers
above the treeline
a prison that she cannot leave
the help she rejects

docks
sail boats like wind chimes
a song played on gentle waves
a nap by the dock

peaks
for floating islands
beat in spoonfuls of sugar
make stiff shiny peaks

generations
arbitrary dates
where are you in the time span
a further divide

2024 01 Newsletter

Some Highlights from January 2024.


I will be making a zine of fruit art each month this year. Here is the fruit artwork for January and the fruit art zine for January.

I made sketchbook art this month with WELLOKB Alcohol Markers on paper. Print out a free zine of the art here.

I’ve been writing poetry based on a mastodon  community of writers who share haiku prompts everyday. Read the haiku here. Print out a zine of the poems 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 winter here in the northern hemisphere. Get my art on sweatshirts and hoodies in my redbubble store.

Here are my newest Redbubble  designs:
2024 01 sketchbook 04
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/157215108

2024 01 sketchbook 06
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/157186604

2024 01 sketchbook 02
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/157185646

2024 01 sketchbook 01
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/157185119

You can also find my art on stuff in my TeePublic and Society6 stores.


Subscription Package

Here is the subscription box for January 2024.

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 here.


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.