Author Archives: Katherine Montalto

2025 04 Sketchbook

Posted by Katherine Montalto

Abstract grid of multi-color squares made with inkscape

Daylight Savings

Posted by Katherine Montalto

Taking sunlight hours from the morning
And adding them to the end of the day
Like cutting a rope from the very top
To add more length to the end of the line

Later darkness makes it harder to wake
Later sunlight makes it harder to sleep
And outside, engine noises grow louder
As the sun stretches itself out longer

Every year, calls to make it permanent
Forgetting that, we tried it, and it failed
In the winter the days are very short
The daylight ‘saved’ makes for long dark mornings

A system full of empty promises
That sell out our circadian rhythms

2025 02 Newsletter

Posted by Katherine Montalto

Some Highlights from February 2025.

I will be making a zine of vegetable art each month this year. Here is the vegetable artwork for February, Mon Petit Chou and the vegetable art zine for February.

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

Over the last few years I wrote poetry based prompts posted on a mastodon by a community of writers who share haiku prompts everyday. Read the haiku here. I am finishing up a book collection of this poetry that will be released this spring on trade paperback with blurb.

This year I am experimenting with form. Trying out sonnets and Villanelle poems. For February, I wrote a sonnet: 14 lines, 10 syllables each. 3 Quatrains then end with a couplet. Read the poem here. Print out a free zine of it here. It’s about my time working in the file room at a health insurance company at the turn of the century. At the turn of technological changes. And getting to know people on paper that you will never meet but come to care about all the same.

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:

mon petit chou (BW)
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/169381025

mon petit chou (in color)
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/169357994

2025 02 sketchbook 06
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/168338990

2025 02 sketchbook 05
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/168338807

2025 02 sketchbook 04
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/168338620

2025 02 sketchbook 03
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/168337537

2025 02 sketchbook 02
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/168337372

2025 02 sketchbook 01
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/168337165

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

Subscription Package

Here is the subscription box for February 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.

2025 03 Sketchbook

Posted by Katherine Montalto

Abstract grid of multi-color squares made with inkscape

2025 01 Newsletter

Posted by Katherine Montalto

Some Highlights from January 2025.

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

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

Over the last few years I wrote poetry based prompts posted on a mastodon by a community of writers who share haiku prompts everyday. Read the haiku here. I am finishing up a book collection of this poetry that will be released this spring on trade paperback with blurb.

This year I am experimenting with form. Trying out sonnets and villanelle forms. For January, I wrote a villanelle 19 lines: five tercets and a quatrain. But instead of ten syllable rhyming lines, I used a sort of haiku structure of 5-7-5 for syllables for the five tercets and 5-7-5-7 syllables for the quatrain ending. 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 Winter here in the northern hemisphere. Get my art on Sweatshirts and Hoodies in my redbubble store.

Here are my newest Redbubble designs:
2025 01 sketchbook 06
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/167651605

2025 01 sketchbook 05
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/167651488

2025 01 sketchbook 04
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/167651344

2025 01 sketchbook 03
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/167651215

2025 01 sketchbook 02
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/167651089

2025 01 sketchbook 01
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/167650956

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

Subscription Package

Here is the subscription box for January 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 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.