2025 Calendar

 Last year I started the Paint Witch blog to be more of a daily art blog, the sort I used to keep here about ten years ago. Instead it kind of morphed into an "everything" site. I'm always torn between

1. Have separate sites for everything even though it might make it more difficult for some people to find some things
2. Put everything in one site so it's all in one place even though it gets kind of jumbled after a while and becomes difficult to find some things

I used to have a bunch of different sites and accounts and over the years I think I overcorrected a little bit and trimmed it down too much. I know not everyone wants to be inundated with a daily e-mail of, "well, here's some stuff I made today... and taxes," so I don't want to overburden my Substack subscribers with what I might say on a daily basis. They probably aren't interested in every little sketch and thought that blips across my brain, although maybe they are?

It seems safest to me to just have a separate place for actually blogging, which is really out of style, but maybe it will make a comeback soon. Probably not, and like a lot of things, I'm jumping on a trend ten years after it went out of style.

Today and yesterday I've mostly spent working on the 2025 calendar. We haven't printed a calendar since the 2015/16 16-month calendar we printed in 2014 - calendars are confusing things to publish and it's all very timey-wimey and very easy to make mistakes even in just talking about it.

I was going to try putting it up on Backerkit instead of Kickstarter this time because Backerkit had posted their stance against generative AI, but their site is clunky, frustrating, and silliest of all they want you to have enough followers on Backerkit to fully fund a project before they will even review it. If I had 40 buyers lined up for this calendar, why would I crowdfund it?

Kickstarter it will be after all. Tomorrow I will copy over all the project details and try to get the ball rolling there instead. The rest of the day will be spent sketching pin-ups for Halloween. This will be the last batch of Halloween art I'll work on this year and I'll be sending them over to Tatiana at TDArtGallery to list them online. I'm not handling any sales of original work online anymore, and only limited sales in person. Tatiana is now the person to talk to about getting your hands on my originals.

Other than scrambling my brain laying out 2025's calendar, I haven't done a whole lot that warrants comment this week. I have petted a lot of cats, cursed at the weather forecast (record highs? blah), and petted more cats. I will keep you posted on all things calendars, sketches, and cats.

-Tiffany