✨ surprise store opening! & new patreon tiers! ✨
hello all! i hope you're doing well, and for folks dealing with the same weather as i am, i hope you're staying cool in this summer heat.
store!
for the first time in... a year? two years? for the first time in some amount of time, i'm opening up my online store!
the rundown on logistics: it'll be open for one week only (until friday july 21), or until i run out of items, whichever comes first. quantities are super limited on most of these items, so if you want one, grab it quick.
i've got prints! books! zines! comics! tote bags! sticker sheets! enamel pins! mysteries! ghosts! and more, maybe! who knows!
most excitingly, this will be the first time HAUNTS, my 50+ page haunted house artbook, will be available for sale online outside of the original kickstarter! i'm limiting sales to 20 copies to make sure i have leftovers for conventions i'm doing later this year. i'm super excited to send out more of these to people who might've missed the original kickstarter!
supporting my store goes towards helping me to pay my rent, afford travel costs for conventions, & make more cool haunted items like these. i got into some cool comic conventions and art book fairs recently that are a little outside of my usual travel radius, so if this store update goes well, i'll be able to afford train tickets to go to those!
you can find the store here! if you have friends who also like brightly-colored haunted artwork, consider passing the link along to them, too. thanks so much in advance for your support!
patreon!
my patreon got a big update this month with two brand-new mail tiers:
ghostcard ($8/mo) — a personalized doodled-on postcard sent to you every few months! also, digital pdfs of my sketchbooks!
spirit box ($25/mo) — quarterly packages containing a curated selection of the art, zines, comics, merch, ouija board tier rewards, and etc that i've made in the past quarter-year. the first spirit box will go out in early august!
in addition, my usual tiers are still around!
spirit orb ($1/mo) — a tip jar tier to help me keep making art my full-time job!
haunting ($5/mo) — digital rewards! behind the scenes looks at my art process, early previews of new art, and printable content.
ouija board ($12/mo) — monthly mail rewards! stickers, prints, zines, postcards - anything i can fit in a flat envelope.
i'm especially excited about this month's ouija board reward — a sticker sheet with all the new tier art on it!
if you want one of these, sign up for the ouija board or spirit box tiers by july 31st! $5+ patrons also get a discount on commissions & in my store!
art!
i designed a new business card for myself after about 5000 years, and i'm really pleased with how it turned out!
i've been in kind of a rut artwise lately, so i've been trying to experiment with new things as much as i can to shake the artblock off. i got my gouache set out last week for the first time since college to do some painting and experiment with texture a little bit. it's very much not my usual medium, but i think i need to play around with different things more often!
recommendations
the podcast you're wrong about did a 3-part series with carmen maria machado talking about go ask alice, which i listened to last week and can't stop thinking about.
my favorite album lately has been ghosties by gawain and the green knight.
i watched jaws for the first time at the beginning of this month. i don't usually get that scared by horror movies, but it was much scarier than i was expecting. really good movie. 10/10.
yesterday was the 10-year anniversary of the release of pacific rim. if you haven't seen it, go fix that; if you have seen it, it may be time for a rewatch!
flamecon is next month and i'm very excited for it! you can get tickets for it now.
that's all for now! have a lovely haunted day, and i'll talk to y'all soon.
💖 - kaylee