APE 2009 Recap

APE Exhibitors Mixer at Last Gasp
The Mixer was held in the Last Gasp warehouse and offices. Nothing more awesome that mingling and drinks in rooms filled with books, carnival side show art and two headed stuffed oddities. We hung out with Emily Martin and her friends from Megamoth Studio next to the Sprectrum books. I even found the YOUR FRIEND THE RAT Little Golden book from Pixar I’ve been looking for for two years.

APE
As it turned out table was in a less than stellar location at APE but we made the best of it. About 2 hours into the event on Saturday I lost my voice. Luckily I had my wonderful table mate and boyfriend Aleric to help out and make me a cute sign. Thank you to all the wonderful people who stopped by to support our studio!

We sold out of THE SEA OF IMAGINATION 13x19 Limited Edition Giclée’s we had at APE. But they are now available in the KatGirl Studio Shop.



A short list of cool people I “talked” to at APE:
Emily Martin
Der-Shing Helmer
William Groebe
Steph laberis
Brittney Lee
Llyn Hunter
Justina Kochansky
The Museum of Lost Wonder

CAM Alternative Press Expo Party: Monsters and Mayhem
On Saturday night Aleric, Erin, Dan and I catched the bus to the Cartoon Art Museum’s Monsters and Mayhem party. The party was tons of fun! Where else would you get to drink beer while sitting in a web comic’s exhibit making Halloween masks out of paper plates, ribbon and crayons? The Disney’s Sleeping Bauty exhibit was fantastic. If you live near SF the Cartoon Art Museum’s current shows are much see!

WonderCon 2009 Review

Sorry about the late review I came down horribly sick when I got back from the con.

Our Table
The Matted Mini Prints and Mini Color books were a smash hit! In general, the response to my studio’s offerings were good. And due to overwhelming demand KatGirl Studio will be publishing the full length illustrated book Stalking the Elusive Quetzal later this year! We will also hopefully have studio shirts and Kiki plushies by famine since people kept trying to buy the ones we was wearing. If you really wanted one of our items and it A: Sold out or B: you ran out of cash, worry not because most of the items will also be featured in our Etsy shop. I’d like to say thank you to my best pal Sally Rose for being my table rep when I wasn’t there so I could get a chance to walk around.

Mike Mignola
Most of my friends know that as fair a “Super Heroes” go Hell Boy is my fav so I was really exited to be able to meet Hell Boys creater Mike Mignola. There a pretty funny story about how I ended up waiting in line twice to get my book signed and if you want the whole story let me know. But the short story ends with me getting a few things signed and us (me and Mike) doing impressions of our pet cats.

Stan Saki
My roommate owns most of the Usagi Yojimbo graphic novels and the “art of book” and so of course I’ve read all of the ones he has because well there awesome and two train rides become very boring. It’s a not so little know fact that Stan is one of the most hardworking comic artists/cartoonists in the US if not the world. besided getting a few books, posters and the art of book signed I also picked up one of the newer books we didn’t have from dark horse because he (Stan) had sold out already and it was only part of the way through sat.

Tracy Butler
I’ve been following her work since I was in high school and she’s one of the first people I started watching on DA. I really love her comic Lackadaisy and it was a big shock to round a corner and sew one of her characters in sculpture form at a book and then realize she was there and then realize whereas I had admired her for years I had no idea what she looked like. Luckily she was there and I got to tell her how much I loved her work. I also preordered her book because customs has seized their shipment of books for random drug search and they had sold out of the ones they had by 11am on Saturday.

Camilla D’Errico
Camilla among other things is the artist of Nightmares and Fairy Tales. I picked up her book some months back at my friend Anna’s comic store and really liked it. We saw her at APE and I kicked myself for forgetting to bring the book for her to sign. Luckily she was at the con and signed my book. As well her and the writer Serena will be doing a signing later this year at Anna’s store.

David Petersen
David is the artist and writer of Mouse Guard and I picked up a signed copy of his book as well at the con. I’ve only flipped through them a few times at Anna’s store but what I saw made my want to buy it. Who can say no to a book of such cute mice? I’d greatly looking forward to reading his comic.

Other Cool people I met were: Laurie B., Bobby Crosby (writer of Marry Me), Travis Hanson (he drew me a cool cat sketch), Gabrielle Pennacchioli (a Dreamworks animator and he sat next to us in AA), Steph Laberis (cool illustrator who gave me the last of her sold out buttons she found under her table) and many many more.

I’d also like to give lots of hugs to your friend Brian Kolm of Atomic Bear Press who’s father passed away this weekend. Hang in there Brian we’re all here for you.

Mini Masterpiece Launch Day 12

It's Day 12 of the Mini Masterpiece Wearable Art launch and here is todays release Equus.


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Mini Masterpiece Launch Day 11

It's Day 11 of the Mini Masterpiece Wearable Art launch and here is todays release The 7th Door.


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Mini Masterpiece Launch Day 10

It's Day 10 of the Mini Masterpiece Wearable Art launch and here is todays release Portrait of a Lady.


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Mini Masterpiece Launch Day 9

It's Day 9 of the Mini Masterpiece Wearable Art launch and here is todays release Worpletinger Winter.


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Mini Masterpiece Launch Day 8

It's Day 8 of the Mini Masterpiece Wearable Art launch and here is todays release Patrick Verona.


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Mini Masterpiece Launch Day 7

It's Day 7 of the Mini Masterpiece Wearable Art launch and here is todays release The Sleeping Margay.


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Mini Masterpiece Launch Day 6

It's Day 6 of the Mini Masterpiece Wearable Art launch and here is todays release The Color of Snow.


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Mini Masterpiece Launch Day 5

It's Day 5 of the Mini Masterpiece Wearable Art launch and here is todays release The Lion.


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Mini Masterpiece Launch Day 4

It's Day 4 of the Mini Masterpiece Wearable Art launch and here is todays release The Arctic Fox.


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Mini Masterpiece Launch Day 3

We are now at day 3 if the Mini Masterpiece Wearable Art Launch and here are today's and yesterda's releases


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Mini Masterpiece Wearable Art

You’ve asked about them, you’ve waited and now they’re here! KatGirl Studio is proud to announce the arrival of the Mini Masterpiece Wearable Art line of jewelry. Each piece is handcrafted here in the studio using aged metal frames, artisan glass and lamp work beads and high quality fine art paper.

Each piece is sealed in a special formula and set to cure while the metal bases are pieced together. Each piece must adhere to a strict quality control before it is mounted on the base and set to dry overnight.

As part of the pre-launch event KatGirl Studio will be releasing one new Mini Masterpiece each day. Pre-order is available for the remaining unreleased designs. Additionally custom designs from my other works may also be available.

Pick up your very own Mini Masterpiece Wearable piece of art today at the KatGirl Studio shop!


Here are the 12 designs that will be available:
Into the Woods (Little Red Riding Hood)
The Lovers (Forest Meeting)
Snow Leopard portrait
Arctic Fox
The Lion and the Mouse (the lion)
The Color of Snow (the gryphon and his rider)
Stalking the Elusive Quetzal
Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger)
Worpletinger Winter (the maiden and the worlpletinger)
Portrait of a lady
The 7th Door
Equus (a play staring Daniel Radcliffe)

Ice cream and Snow Leopards

SF Etsy Ice Cream Social
On Saturday I went to San Francisco for a SF Etsy ice cream social. It was a joy meeting other artisans in my area. I wore the prototype for soon to be launched line of jewelry and got a really good response from the ladies there.

I’ve been busy busy busy. Snow Leopard
Yesterday I finished my painting of the Snow leopard and uploaded it and a few new things to my various online communities. It will soon be available as a fine art print and is one of the 12 pieces in my line of wearable art that will soon be launching.

New Arrivals in the Studio Shop!

I’ve added a few new items to the KatGirl Studio shop! Mostly Fine Art prints left over from the past convention. If you’ve seen me at a convention in the past year the Fine Art prints are on the beautiful paper I use for my portfolio.

Art-a-thon Update
I’ve updated the rules to the Art-a-thon challenge to be alittle less hard because all our members seemed to drop out over the holidays. You can check out the challenge here.

Art-a-thon
Today’s piece is the details for The Color of Snow.

Wearable Art Creation 2

Today I worked out the final formula for sealing my artwork for the jewelry and how to create the rest. This piece is the first Mini Masterpiece: Into the Woods. This piece features purple artisan speckled glass beads and an antiqued silver stamped frame. The jewelry line is set launch at WonderCon 2009 so stay tuned.

Wearable Art Creation

I spent part of the day trying out different ways to create the line of jewelry I’m developing. Since some of the pieces are still outside curing here are just some of the pieces I made today. The set launch date is WonderCon 2009 so stay tuned.

SAC Anime and New Project

SAC Anime was really fun but it left me exhausted, if I can help it I won’t be doing a show alone ever again. I met a lot of really cool people I hope to see again in the future. To all of you who came by the table to pick up some goodies, browse or just say hi thank you for supporting KatGirl Studio. To those who ordered special prints they are in the mail and on their way to you. The coolest thing that happened at the Con was that I got to talk to Tom Kane who voiced Yoda in the most recent Star Wars movie along with a lot of other characters from shows I watched as a kid. My friend’s dad was kind enough to wait in line to have my light saber signed for me since I was stuck at the table. I've uploaded the pictures I took to my FaceBook feel free to tag someone if you know them. oh ya and aparently the shirt I'm wearing in the above pic was in an episode of Heros.


New Project
As I mentioned at the Con I’ve been working on launching a line of jewelry featuring my artwork. Above is a digital mock up of the jewelry. Each piece will also have color coordinating artisan glass beads. These are the selected artworks that will be made into Mini Masterpiece Wearable Art:

Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger)
Into the Woods (Little Red Riding Hood)
Arctic Fox
Equus (a play staring Daniel Radcliffe)
Holiday Art
The Color of Snow (artwork coming soon)
The 7th Door
Portrait of a lady
The Lion and the Mouse
Stalking the Elusive Quetzal
The Lovers (Forest Meeting)
Snow Leopard portrait (artwork coming soon)

Art-a-thon #15: Sand Piper Sketch

Quick post before running off to a holiday party hope your weekend is fun my fellow feline friends.

KatGirl Studio Holiday Sale!
KatGirl Studio is having a store wide Holiday sale! If you’re looking for someone special to give this year why not a piece of art? Even better, the first 20 people get a free print in their order! So scamper over to katGirl Studio my fellow feline friends.

Art-a-thon
A sketch of a Sand Piper drawn at the Oakland Natural History Museum. Graphite in sketch book.

SiliCon

KatGirl Studio will be at Silicon starting today! I will be at my table in the artist’s colony when I’m not giving my workshop or in a panel.

Meet the Guests
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm in Siskiyou Ballroom/Donnor Pass Ballroom

Standing out in a Sea of Awesome: Marketing for Artists
Saturday, October 4th, 2008
11:30 am - 12:45 pm in Monterey Room
One of the most important things for artists is getting your name out there but how do you do that and what on earth are art directors looking for? This workshop covers how to make mini promo books, promo sheet, post cards and why their important.

Digital vs. Traditional Art
Saturday, October 4th, 2008
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm in Monterey Room
Some artists are doing all their work digitally. Others work with paint and canvas and/or air brush. Most use some combination of tech and techniques. Working artists talk about what they like and what they use.

I’ll be offering the same images that are in my store at SiliCon so if you’re planning on attending save yourself the shipping and just pick one up there. If you are attending the con and want one of my images as a print and it’s not one of these please email me and I can see about making one for you. I will also be offering some buttons and maybe a few other goodies as well. So come by and ask me whatever you like or just say hi.

Today’s Feature Artisan
Zygopsyche
In need of a cute furry face to brighten up your office desk or con table? Why not stop by Zygopsyche.
Over at Zygopsyche cute little bunnies and guinea’s stare up at you from round fluffy faces. Just staring at them makes me smile but I’ve always had a soft spot for plushies and have many adorning my studio. Zygopsyche’s creatures are crafted out of plush faux fur and are stuffed with a super soft down alternative polyfill to make them extra hugable. So if you’re in need of a Friday pick me up why not pick one up at Zygopsyche.