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I (Goldeen) will be bringing the Heliopause table to the 2023 Bend Women’s Expo this Saturday, April 8th, at the Riverhouse Convention Center right in my hometown of Bend, OR. It’s my first public in-person show since COVID, and I’m excited for it. If you’re in the area tickets are only $10 and it looks to be a fun event, and I would love to see you there!
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In what is becoming a familiar refrain in these spaces, I must regretfully announce that Heliopause will not be present at AnthroCon 2022. This decision was not taken lightly, and my sympathies are with the staff and attendees as they navigate a challenging event in even more challenging times. For the long story behind this decision (and it is not entirely COVID related!) please see this post.
For now, my hope is to have some originals and LE prints in the art show, thanks to the generosity of a kind friend who has agreed to agent for me.
Thanks go out to everyone who has purchased from the online shop, bought my books (from wherever), and subscribed to me on Patreon. You make it possible for me to continue to create new and inspiring works of art and fiction even in the most difficult of times.
Watch this space for an exciting Professor Odd update coming soon!
All the best,
-Goldeen
Now with Jan 7th update!
I had hoped to be attending Further Confusion in San Jose this month, both in the dealer’s room and in the art show, but due to the ongoing surge of the omicron variant I am having to modify my plans—which may yet be modified further. For now, here is what I do know:
Here is what I am currently (as of Jan 6) planning:
Best of luck to all who attend, and much love to everyone!
-Goldeen
Happy Holidays, folks! In an effort to make things less stressful for everyone, here’s a simple round-up of all that’s happening at Heliopause this season.
This year I am sending physical greeting cards to all my Valdellunian tier subscribers on Patreon. It’s $10 for a month, but you only need to be a subscriber for November or December (or both, if you want) to receive a holiday card. I am doing a Hanukkah card for November subscribers, and a general holiday card for December subscribers. Head on over here to learn more/sign up! You can also learn more about Valdelluna here.
Free gift wrapping is back at the Online Store! Simply add the Holiday Gift Wrapping item to your cart, fill out the To/From information, and you can have your gift shipped directly to the recipient! There is free economy shipping available for orders of $75 or more and “If it fits, it ships USPS Priority” for $7.75 (limited to what I can fit into a USPS Priority Flat Rate envelope).
New items in the shop include Weekday Cats greeting cards, the Wheel 3 Icon Sticker, and hardback editions of Driving Arcana!
So far it looks like I will return to in-person conventions with Further Confusion in San Jose… exactly two years after my last in-person convention… which was also Further Confusion! I will have a table and originals in the art show, and if you are comfortable attending I would love to see your masked and vaccinated person there! More on this to come.
The online shop has been remodeled and is now accepting orders! You can peruse prints, books, cards, stickers and charms and order with your credit card, Google Pay and Apple Pay, and from now until March 21 (that’s this coming Saturday) you can get free shipping on any order, anywhere, using the code FORK-COVID . Happy browsing!
Also to note: my next confirmed convention, Biggest Little FurCon, recently announced that due to the pandemic they are rescheduling for Halloween weekend, October 29 – November 1, and I will be there! But if you were hoping to get something from me earlier, well—that’s what the online shop is for. I truly appreciate every order, however small.
If you’re not in the mood to acquire more material artifacts, you may consider joining my Patreon, where you can get access to behind-the-scenes sketches, progress pictures, and stories. You’ll also be the first to see new drawings from my Valdelluna series, and get new eBook releases as soon as they are available. Head on over to patreon/GoldeenOgawa to join.
But most of all, wash your hands, practice social distancing, and stay healthy!
Good luck,
—Goldeen
After a lovely holiday season, Heliopause Productions will be kicking off the new year with a trip to California for Further Confusion in San Jose, January 16-20 at the McEnery Convention Center and Adjoining Hotels. I’ll have a table in the Dealer’s Room with my usual assortment of goods as well as three whole panels in the Art Show. This will be a special exhibit featuring the entire cast of my Planet Horse series, including two new ponies completed in the last month!
Program wise I am hosting a Physical Wellness for Creatives workshop on Sunday, 1p to 2:30p, in the Guadalupe room (Marriott), and I’ll be doing a reading on Friday, 3p to 4:30p, on something called the Hilton Stage/Almaden Ballroom which makes me think it might be a very large room so please everyone bring a friend I will do funny voices and a Q/A afterwards it’ll be great.
I’m bringing a couple new book titles and two new prints to the table this year, which will be a half table so hopefully everything will fit! I’m sharing with Corgilegs at table 76 in Dealer’s Room East, right next to my buddy Moth Monarch. I’ll have my full selection of prints, books, cards, stickers, charms and other goodies, and—yes—I’ll be open for at-con commissions, too!
In addition to Bouragner Felpz Volume III and Driving Arcana Wheel 2, I’m excited to bring prints of two new Planet Horses—even though neither of them are, technically, planets. Oh well.
Sol, the sun horse, will be available as a print from my table, and the original will be on display at the art show. However, it will not be for sale as someone has already claimed him.
Ceres, the miniature/dwarf planet horse, will also be in the art show, but you can bid on her if you like! And I’ll have prints of her at my table, too.
All in all I’m hoping for a fun show and a good start to 2020. Hopefully I’ll see some of you there!
It’s been a great summer here at Heliopause Productions: we had a fantastic AnthroCon and got to attend Comic-Con San Diego and we’ve just finished up our semi-annual “publishing week” in the brilliant, rain-soaked August. (Seriously, there’s been like one fire near us this year. It’s amazing.)
Moving onwards, we have two shows this fall. First is Rose City ComicCon over the volcanoes in Portland, Oregon. We’ll be in the Artist Alley at table R-09—same place as last year! Second is IlluxCon in Reading, Pennsylvania. It’s our first time to IlluxCon and we’ll be in the Artist Showcase Friday and Saturday nights.
Both events will feature a full complement of prints, charms, books and more, but IlluxCon will also get to see a selection of the interior illustrations for Bouragner Felpz, Professor Odd, and the yet-to-be released Lucena in the House of Madgrin.
And while they might not be ready for Rose City, Bourganer Felpz Volume III and Driving Arcana Wheel 2 will be coming out in eBook and paperback very, very soon!
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Biggest Little FurCon was a blast—some of the nicest attendees I’ve ever had the pleasure dealing to—and you can read the full writeup over on the Goldeen Ogawa blog. I do hope we can go back again in 2020!
Even though it’s still weeks away, AnthroCon is looming large on my horizon. I have a few new prints and am working hard to get a couple new eBook cards ready in time. I think I will have a pretty strong table this year, made even stronger by the return of my Wonderful Mother as my volunteer muscle—I mean table assistant. But also muscle. Turns out swinging kettlebells is a great way to train for setting up a vendor table!
This year I have the pleasure of an actual mascot! Please meet Astrhopi, the Heliopause Chimera and the newest addition to my Kimaerhaic family. Astrhopi loves stories, art, and skipping around the theoretical boundary between the heliosphere and the interstellar media. I’ll have prints of her for sale, and she’ll be decorating my table in the form of a brand new runner.
I’m also bringing in some new (old) prints that I haven’t had in stock for a few years. First of these are my series of Elemental Horsies. Ignis, Aura, Aqua and Terra were originally done on commission, and I added Ligno (wood) and Ferro (metal) to complete the sextet.
For the first time as a true-size (9″x12″) print, I have my Lady in Black painting. This will be a metallic print, since I used metallic gold acrylics for the halo. I like to joke that this is my “woman in front of circle” painting… except that the woman in question is a California Condor. Condors are amazing birds and the Californians continue to haul themselves back from the brink of extinction. Atta-girl!
Another 9″x12″ mettalic print, Gildenvern was originally a watercolor with real gold leaf. The original sold long ago, but now you can get him as a true-size print—complete with a shiny signature.
It’s not just prints: I’ll have eBook cards for Driving Arcana Rotations Four and Five and Driving Arcana: By Moon and Star so you can get caught up on all the Arcana shenanigans. I’ll also have limited print copies of By Moon and Star for those who like something more tangible to hold.
I will also be accepting a limited number of both Artist Choice and Custom commissions on Friday and Saturday, with an Artist Choice special (TBA) on Sunday.
My prices for regular Artist Choice and Custom work, for at-con only, are as follows:
Artist Choice on a 9″x12″ sheet of bristol or equivalent Sketchbook:
Flat rate: $25 Pencil Sketch; $50 Brush Pen Study; $75 Finished Pencil Drawing; $100 Fine Inked Piece
Custom Work on a 9″x12″ sheet of bristol or equivalent Sketchbook:
Starts at: $50 Pencil Sketch; $75 Brush Pen Study; $100 Finished Pencil Drawing; $125 Fine Inked Piece
Extra detail such as wings, complex markings or costumes, specific and/or complex backgrounds, and additional characters will raise the cost of custom commissions. Prices above are for a single reasonably simple character with little-to-no background. You can always ask for a free, no-obligation estimate!
Perhaps what I’m most excited about is something I’m doing more for other artists than for myself. I’d been thinking of doing a badge ribbon—like the kind people collect and stack under their convention badge like long, glittering trails—specifically for people who bid on art in the art show, for over a year now—and this year I finally got around to designing and ordering just such a ribbon.
You see, I love Art Shows in concept: we artists go hang our work, people buy it, and about a month later we get a check. The con does a wonderful thing by giving us display space and handling the monetary transactions, and people get an opportunity to buy originals.
Unfortunately, in practice I rarely sell anything through the art show, and while a lot of people have legitimate reasons for not bidding (such as, “I do not have that many dollars in my bank account” or “I have nowhere to hang that picture”) I’m always disappointed when people say “Oh, I would have loved to buy something, but I didn’t know there was an Art Show!“
This is the worst. I think there are some things that can only be fixed on the con-end (blazing neon signs posted at every doorway flashing the hours of the art show too much to ask? Probably too much to ask…) but I figured it couldn’t help to do a little bit on my end to promote the show, to encourage people to bid—and show my appreciation to people who do bid. So without further ado, let me tell you about the…
Named for the Florentine dynasty that promoted such artists as Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, and bankrolled the invention the piano, opera, and the construction of my favorite cathedral, the Santa Maria del Fiore, the Medici Achievement can be unlocked simply by bidding on a piece in the AnthroCon Art Show. To get the ribbon, all you need do is make a note of which piece you bid on (artist name and piece title) and the amount you bid (which you should do anyway) and present this information along with your badge number to either myself or my assistant at the Heliopause Productions table. You may be able to get one from other dealers/artists or even art show staff, but I have not made formal arrangements as of yet.
Fine print: only on ribbon per bidder per show. There is no official penalty for recipients who provide false info to fraudulently collect a ribbon but c’mon guys we’re artists we can get super creative with our methods of retribution do not test us.
AnthroCon will be held at the David L Lawrence Convention Center in beautiful (yes, really!) Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, July 5-7. I will be present behind the Heliopause Productions table located at D17 in the Dealer’s Den Friday thru Sunday, except for a break Friday at 4 p.m. when I go do my Mapping Your Imagined World panel until 5. I will also be holding a reading on Saturday at 9 p.m., with a brief Q&A to follow. I hope to see you there!
In a couple weeks Heliopause Productions will be at Biggest Little FurCon in Reno, NV, May 17-19. I’ll be sharing a vendor table with Mary “Moth Monarch” Capaldi, and you’ll probably be able to find us by the tower of wire frames we’ll erect to show off all the goodies we’re bringing to town. You can find an assortment of Moth’s wares over on at their shop, and I’ll be bringing lots of books, prints, greeting cards, and some brand new merch that will be available exclusively at conventions.
I love stickers, and I love sticker sheets as an easy and economical way to collect stickers. The Weekday Cats give you a kitty for each day of the week, all on a handy A5 sheet. This item goes for $10 per sheet, and is already listed on the online store if you absolutely cannot wait. I will also have fine art prints of each individual cat available at the con!
According to my printer these are “postcards” but the quality is so good I don’t think anyone would want to send them through the mail without an envelope. Really they are more like super-sturdy art prints, and I have them in a variety of my favorite pieces. These are $10 each, can be signed and customized on the back, and are not currently listed in the online store.
Also debuting at BLFC, for the first time ever I am selling eBook Art Cards! These are the same quality as my art cards, but with the book’s cover on the front and bonus art on the back. With purchase of a card, you also get the book associated with it delivered right to your inbox as an epub or mobi file (or both at no added cost). Cards are signed and can be personalized, just like a traditional book, but if you prefer to read on your tablet or phone, you don’t have to lug the whole book around. I’ll have cards for Driving Arcana Rotation 4 and Professor Odd: The Complete Season One available at my table. These will be available exclusively at conventions, and are $10 each—eBook included!
I love acrylic charms, and I’ve adapted one of my favorite Strange Owls as such. Meet the Strange Barn Owl charm, perfect for looking after your keys or decorated your bag! They join my growing collection of charms, including the Strange Elf and Great Gray Owls, and the Andromeda Galaxy Cat. The Strange Barn Owl will be available first at BLFC, and for orders online afterward.
As always, my table at a convention is the only place you can commission me for sketchbook drawings. I can also do original commissions on 9″x12″ bristol board, for those of you who don’t have or can’t bring sketchbooks. Currently conventions are the only place where I can take commissions, so keep that in mind! My prices for a standard size sketchbook (8.5″x11″/A4/9″x12″) start at $25 for an Artist Choice quick sketch, $50 for a pencil drawing, $75 for an Artist Choice brush pen study, and $100 for a fine inked piece. It’s 50% more for each additional character or detailed background, and there may be a surplus charge for extra large sketchbooks or complex characters. There may also be discounts for small sketchbooks. All surplus charges and discounts are made at the sole discretion of the artist. Chatting and estimates are always free, and I try to deliver commissions by the morning of the following day.
My convention table is also the only place where you can buy from my Li’l Original Gallery—these are quarter sheet brush pen sketches on Lokta paper, and are all $20 each. You can also get one made to-order for $25—simple prompts only!
After BLFC my next convention will be at AnthroCon in Pittsburgh, PA, July 5-7, where I will have a full table to real show off everything Heliopause Productions has to offer. Hope to see you here or there, and if not, take care!
We have acrylic charms of the Elf and Great Gray Strange Owls, plus the Andromeda Cat! There are also signed prints of the entire Kimaerha series, in easy-to-frame 5″x7″ dimensions. Each once comes with a little legend about the character.
We are also well-stocked with shiny stickers, temporary tattoos, and Planet Horse prints!
We are currently out of Bouragner Felpz Volume I and Professor Odd Season One, but will have those back in stock following WorldCon 76 in August.
You can find all this and more at the Heliopause Webstore! All books and prints sold through the webstore are signed, and if you would like yours personalized simply put that in the note along with your order. If you would like to ship your order to someone else, simply put their address in the shipping info, and leave your name and email and note that it is being shipped as a gift.
If you are outside the United States, please contact us directly at heliopauseweb@gmail.com and we can take care of you!
Our next convention is WorldCon 76 in San Jose California. We will be in the Dealer’s Room, and Goldeen will have a panel in the Art Show. We look forward to seeing you there!
