Yay @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social for finding Bear!

Hey #kidlit illustrators! We're beginning work on new Christmas/nighttime themed picture book. I'm looking for someone with a painterly, textured, and literary style capable conjuring magic, light, and wonder. Please respond w/ samples + folio link. Please no emails/DMs. 💙❤️ #artcommissions

BEAR TO THE RESCUE has landed! 🐨🐶📙 Stoked to get our paws on our first copies of the new book! Got the dogs to help with unboxing - mixed results. Gromit was politely interested. Morello tried to eat the packaging, and fell off the bench. But Zorro is an old hand, and showed them how it's done!

t-e-x-t-u-r-e But look at the lines between the bricks — where they're dark and where mid-tone, and where they are the brightest thing in the image. Look for colours in the bricks: find the spectrum. Which colours make it glow and dance and approach self-effacingly... #artthoughts

qrp with something watery! 🌊 Couldn't turn down a perfect opportunity to share a collage from The Great Shark Egg Case Hunt - out in October 🦈🪸

🌳🐨🌳 I'm never sure if we should say "Happy" for this particular annual event, but something we can be happy about this Threatened Species Day is that the NSW Government just announced a huge new park - the Great Koala National Park! 🌳🐨🌳 Read all about it here: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Good news for Threatened Species Day! A great big new park! 🌳🐨 🌳 Also nice to see that significant commitments have been made to support the people in the region who have relied on forestry for jobs until now — no real progress without supporting local communities 🐨 🌳💚🧍‍♂️

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A real party night out in the CBD is when you return to the house with more books than you left with

Drawing is like:

Here, I was imagining my absolute dream project (a fully illustrated SFF poetry collection for middle grade) and adapted this Spitzweg painting to test out some techniques. #kidlitart #australianillustrator #carlspitzweg

This is a little series I made for Folktale Week in 2022. I still love it, so now it can live here. #folktaleweek #shortstories

QRP with your skull art!

🚨Arooga arooga! 🚨 Excited to share the cover of my very first picture book: "Bear to the Rescue"! 🐨🐶📘🔥 Co-written with Romane Cristescu, and illustrated bySylvia Morris, our book tells the true story of Bear as he goes from being a bit "too much" to saving koalas after the 2020 mega fires 🔥

Ķemeri National Park: along a boardwalk that stretches out forever, past infinitely deep lakes under a changeable sky. #kidlitillustration #kemerunacionalaisparks #australianillustrator

It's time to think about Book Week outfits! If anyone dresses as Lily from When the Stars Come Out, I would LOVE to see your photos. #cbcabookweek2025 #auskidlit

Happy Friday from a happy baby! Not the direction I intended for this picture at all, but what is a Friday for, if not for a little play? #kidlit

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day! I'm an Australian illustrator who'd love to work on some fun junior fiction books :) See my PBs and more work here: sylviamorris.com.au

While I have not done as much landscape painting/drawing in Europe as I expected, I do now have a huge backlog of photos to work from whenever I want! This is Ķemeri National Park in Latvia.

YAY! When The Stars Come Out has been shortlisted in the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards! Congrats to Tanya Hill and the #MuseumsVictoria team! And to all the other shortlistees - it's esp fun to be on any list with Lucia Masciullo and Jess Racklyeft <3 #SPABookOfTheYear

After failing to visit the Swiss Alps for the first time in 2020 (because of the obvious reason) and then for the second time in 2023 (because my passport was stolen as I passed through Frankfurt train station), I finally managed to make it! And it was as beautiful as I dreamed, plus more.

I want to write previews for every club ahead of the AFLW season – as I did for the AFLM. Only problem: I'm not super well-informed. So I'm looking for people who can help me. Is that you, or someone you know? Then please get in touch – and share this post. My DMs are open.

My first book is coming out in the US soon (Sept 9 - already available for pre-order!!!) and I'm super excited for you all to meet Archie and the gang :) @charlesbridge.bsky.social #janegodwin #foundyou #kidlit #picturebooks

Did I already make a bluesky account several months ago and then delete it 2 days later, overwhelmed? Yes. Nevertheless, here we are, because it feels awful to watch everyone tell me about all the work that was stolen from them by meta, on meta. So, take two.

Hi, I'm a children's book illustrator and STEM enthusiast from Adelaide (Kaurna and Peramangk country), currently living in Germany. Get in touch via email if you'd like to work with me!