Author Archives: Katherine Montalto

2024 06 Newsletter

Some Highlights from June 2024.


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

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 Summer here in the northern hemisphere. Get my art on T-shirts and mini skirts in my redbubble store.

Here are my newest Redbubble designs:
2024 06 sketchbook 01
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/161764665

2024 06 sketchbook 02
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/161764724

2024 06 sketchbook 06
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/161764825

2024 06 sketchbook 05
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/161764936

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


Subscription Package

Here is the subscription box for June 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 07 sketchbook

2024 07 Haiku

crane
it will build itself
lift heavy things off the ground
pulleys and levers

arraignment
an accusation
in front of a tribunal
reading of charges

we are sisters you and I . . .
with beak and talons
the harpy tears out your heart
she can’t be destroyed

CUBE
filled with deadly traps
unaware government cogs
prime number puzzles

candles
left burning all day
house not set ablaze somehow
a forgotten flame

nocturnal
the songs of the night
those awake in the darkness
chorus of creatures

2024 06 Sketchbook

marker on paper

2024 06 Haiku

smoke
crematorium
a black cloud across the sky
incineration

recover
something lost, taken
regain the stolen pieces
making whole again

red tide
giant algae blooms
toxins in water and air
out of control growth

till
turning the soil
plowing, sowing, raising crops
build a garden bed

urgency
pain in the bladder
stock up on cranberry juice
a constant pressure

asparagus
a spring vegetable
serve it with Hollandaise sauce
steam the shoots gently