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...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.

SiliCon Updates on SiliCon : I’ll be participating in the following panels & workshops.   Standing out in a Sea of Awesome: Marketing for Artists Saturday, October...and it was even working right when I played it? I keep toying with the idea of applying to EA since the office that makes all the games of theirs I actually play is just a couple cities over.

Con-X-Treme I’ve spend the last few days avoiding writing about the con since I don’t usually like to speak ill of anyone, but I can’t just let other’s fall into this trap if the con is still around... TBA www.siliconventions.com Etsy: Your place to buy & sell all things handmade katgirlstudio.etsy.com

KatGirl Studio will be at Con-X-treme Labor Day Weekend Aug. 29- September 1. I will be sharing a table in the artists/vendors area with Scott Aleric the creator of Hell Has Found Me & Lost Graphics...you this is an excellent time as it benefits a very worthy charity. If you have any questions about the personal commission or anything else mentioned above feel free to email me.

  Been busy busy busy the last 2 weeks updating Katgirl Studio and the other art communities I belong to with my mini book dummy project, working on two sites for my mother’s organization and getting...the mini book dummy into a full length picture book since it was so well received at the SCBWI Conference.   Here are the final drawing and color study for a piece in the new project.

I finished transferring all the drawings for my mini book dummy yesterday so all that’s left to do is alittle cleaning up and painting the cover. After that I have to put together the dummy for the art...morning till really late Aug. 4 th . And since I will be at Disneyland next Monday and Tuesday there will be no studio update. I will have my laptop and the trip but I don’t know about internet.  

  Sorry I didn’t update yesterday by the time I got back from checking the proofs for my promo materials for the SCBWI LA conference my mom called to remind me about their BBQ (my mom’s sister, my uncle...going to be there let me know and maybe we can meet up. I need to buy shoes (Mary Jane style mostly), wigs and find a good face up artist but also they have to cool workshops I wanted to take.

Now that the new KatGirl Studio site is completed I’ve been doing other things like designing post cards, biz cards and compiling the rest of my client contact list. I emailed editor/art directors and...next month. It’s a little 8 page wordless story about a margay (my character Xcaret) hunting a nearby Quetzal entitled Stalking the Illusive Quetzal . Here’s the front cover sketch for the book.

I don’t have a new piece of art this week other than the watercolor I did at faire this past weekend for my friend Amy’s Birthday. I do however have a whole new site up! There weren’t really any problems...and the other printed materials I will need. I also need to finish my contact list, order new biz cards and post cards and send out mailers. Like always its busy busy busy here at KatGirl Studio.

I have finished all the illustrations for the site and am currently constructing the new KatGirl Studio site in flash. When it’s near completion I’ll post a link so you can beta test the site before...   On another note my class ring finally came and its nice shinny and very pretty. Since the Academy’s colors are black and red I chose a garnet and silver (personally I really don’t like gold).