August Newsletter 🐠

Shop the Closing Sale (New adventures ahead!)

Happy August!

If you’re new to the Monthly Newsletter, welcome! This newsletter is a space to share and reflect about the previous month.

I’ll share my updates from last month, but what I really love is hearing what you’ve been up to. So please feel free to share in the comments :)

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What I have for you this month:

📣 Big update: I’m closing my online shop

As I continuing exploring other markets (and getting really excited about other opportunities), I’ve decided against renewing my shop website for another year. The online shop will officially close on September 7.

I started my online shop to learn how to print and sell my own art, and it was such a valuable first step in my art journey. I’m so grateful to everyone who purchased cards and prints from me, especially those who bought my dog and cat DIY Sticker Cards (my favorites!) And now as I get really inspired by markets outside of cards/prints, I’m ready to focus on new opportunities.

The shop will be open until the first week of September, so grab anything you’d like now. Nothing will be restocked, and what’s there is all I have.

I look forward to shipping things out to you for one last month! 🙏

Everything will be 25% off all month with the code NEWADVENTURES. Browse card and print goodies here:

Newsletter Updates:

Here are the posts and replays from last month in case you missed any:

My top 3 recommendations for new illustrators

Illoguild Live #10

Ready for a Fun Art Challenge?

Week One of the 3 Materials Drawing Challenge

Surface Pattern Challenge: Part 4

From Strawberries to Equestrians: Learning New Materials + Techniques

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We’ll be talking about leveling up our craft, such as how we set learning goals for growth, how we get better at our craft, and our favorite ways to improve our art and writing. We can’t wait to see you there!

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Updates from last month:

I got to unbox My ABCF at School 😍

I was so excited to open up mail from Australia last weekend! Inside was a really nice note and some copies of My ABCF at School. Seeing the final print of a book is an incredible feeling — so much work goes into these projects, and I am so grateful for all of the work by Cystic Fibrosis Western Australia, not only for the ABC text but for their guidance on the illustrations and making sure I had reference photos and accurately portrayed various pages— from a typical Australian school lunches and school uniforms to the types of tools and medicine for CF. We started working on this book last summer, so we did lots of work together!

Now that I’ve received the books, I feel like this project has officially wrapped up. And that’s always a bittersweet moment after such a long project. It was an absolute honor to work on such a meaningful book and I hope it makes a difference for teachers and students in’s their classrooms! 📚✏️❤️

My print collection has been shortlisted!

Remember this print collection that I shared with you last month? It has been shortlisted for a competition by the company Wallsauce! I worked hard on these, so it feels really encouraging that my collection has been selected.

And now the final vote is open to the public!

You can see all the submissions and vote here.

3 Materials Drawing Challenge

Ohh this has been so much fun!! Have you joined the challenge, too? The goals are to draw every day for 50 days, but only for 30 minutes and with only 3 materials. I’ve been writing about the materials and process. Read about Week 1 and Week 2.

Here are some of my favorites so far:

30 minutes sketches from the 3 Materials Drawing Challenge

Fish Pattern

I painted fish for one day of the 3 Materials Challenge, and then I decided to make an actual pattern. Here’s a look behind the scenes from the rough sketches to the painting to the final pattern:

Monthly Pup-date

Auggie’s been enjoying lots of walks by the water!

That’s all for this month!

How about your month? How did all your art go? What did you create?

Share in the comments!

See you later this week for the monthly

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Katie