Love this ocean-based world map! A different point of view to look at our planet from for Earth Day tomorrow.

Happy to see my entry to #50PreciousWords got an honorable mention in the Family category! Thank to @viviankirkfield.bsky.social for hosting this contest every year! It’s always a great way to practice my brevity when telling a story.

I had to think about this one, but does procrastination count as a warm-up ritual? I feel like I get my best writing (at least for 1st drafts) done in the middle of the night after avoiding sitting down to focus on it during the day. 🌙🦉 #kidlitchat

I haven’t been very good at keeping up with social media lately, but I have been busy working on #kidlit and #kidlitart. This month I applied to #pbparty #pbrisingstars and #50preciouswords. They’re all great challenges to work on polishing storytelling skills. Good luck to all the entrants!

Art Directors, Editors, Designers: Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day! Portfolio: dianadelosh.com Represented by @lynnettenovak.bsky.social of The Seymour Agency. #kidlitartpostcard #kidlitart #illustrator #illustration #kidlit

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day! Have a pony! 🦄 jwahlgren.com/children

Hi, #KidLitArtPostcard Day! I'm Mayumi, a Japanese #kidlit illustrator. Excited to take on new projects! Picture books, board books, and book covers are my favorite things to work on✨ #kidlitart Rep'd by lovely @essiewhite.bsky.social at @stormliterary.bsky.social 🌐 mayumi-sasage.com

Hello! #KidLitArtPostcard! A snippet from my archives to welcome the autumnal vibes, although I'm still enjoying late summer blooms and garden tomatoes! angelamatteson.com I’m represented by @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social @bookendsliterary.bsky.social #kidlitart #kidlit #illustration #ChildrensBooks

Some sketchbooking. A mix of kidlit characters, a photo study, and some still life objects. #sketchbook #watercolor #mixedmedia #nature #kidlitart #portraitpainting

Starting a new sketchbook today. It’s always tough to decide what to draw on that first page—I went with a quick graphite still life of a few objects I picked up on a recent walk. #sketchbook #nature #still-life #drawing #graphite #seeds #sketching

I think the GN This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews would make an amazing movie. I don’t really cast my own books, but I think of them cinematically while writing. I could see a GN I’m writing as a movie—but it’d probably need to be animated—the main characters are birds and dinosaurs. 😂 #kidlitchat

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! Here’s a video compilation @patriciakeeler.bsky.social put together of the annual @cbignyc.bsky.social illustrator directory. You can take a closer look and/or download on the cbig website: www.cbig-nyc.com/directory.

Scanned in some of my favorites from one of my recent watercolor sketchbooks. #sketchbook #watercolor #gouache #kidlitart #botanicalart

Hi #PortfolioDay! I’m Melissa, a children’s author/illustrator currently seeking representation. I also make nature-inspired and abstract paintings and am interested in art licensing. #kidlitart #kidlit #illustration #wallart

A springtime-inspired abstracted watercolor painting. #spring #dragonfly #painting #abstract #art #watercolor #wallart #botanical #green

A funny PB I read recently is STRANDED: A Mostly True Story from Iceland (Aevar Por Benediktsson/Anne Wilson). It merges science with folklore to to exaggerate and play into the goofiness of the MC. Techniques I love to use along with unexpected page turns & using the art as a punchline. #kidlitchat

Applied yesterday! Love that opportunities like this push me to polish my work and evaluate my process, strengths, weaknesses and goals. Good luck to all the applicants! #pbrisingstars #kidlit

Enjoying working on some picture book illustrations with traditional media. This is watercolor and colored pencil plus a little graphite pencil. Still experimenting with it, so I may add some gouache and colored inks still. #kidlitart #kidlit #illustration

Most of my ideas need to marinate for a while. I write a bit here and there—eventually I have a sense of the characters, plot, setting, themes, etc. Once I reach that point, I have to write a solid outline to actually finish writing it. I rarely write the scenes in order though. #kidlitchat

Hey a heads up that #pbchat book club is discussing a classic tomorrow. #kidlitchat briankirbystudio.com/658-2/

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! You can try to silence or erase us, but we aren’t going anywhere. We will keep fighting and being awesome 😤

Little watercolor cardinal based on one of my photos. #painting #watercolor #sketchbook #watercolorpainting #birds #birdart #watercolorbirds #cardinal

Has anyone else fell in love with one of their characters?? This crab brings so much joy to my story! #art #illustrator #collage #kidlitart #kidlit #picturebook #paintedpapers

Most helpful is probably my critique group, we meet monthly via zoom and it's great to have that deadline and accountability to keep motivated to revise and make new work to share. We also keep each other up to date on kidlit opportunities and books we've read. #kidlitchat

HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you!

#pbchat tomorrow at 9pm eastern - we’ll be discussing MR. S - which Monica Arnaldo was nice enough to read to everyone here: youtu.be/-eXRZPTQ_nE?...

A little work-in-progress trying to use more traditional media for my illustrations this year. #kidlitart #kidlit #dodo #WIP #watercolor

Psspt…. Next Thursday, January 2nd is indeed the first #KidLitArtPostcard Day of 2025. Pass it on #kidlit !

I love how this whole book is a perfect interactive experience. Grover’s dramatic poses are intricately tied to all the expressive hand lettering as he begs you to stop reading. But the reader (& Grover) can’t help but defy his plea’s to stop reading before you get to the monster at the end. #pbchat

I was thinking a bigger, more comfortable workspace (my current corner is pretty cramped) especially for the illustration side of things...but all these writing retreat ideas look pretty fun. #kidlitchat

Didn’t get as much done as I was hoping (always overly optimistic about goals😆) but I made more progress on my MG novel and almost done with 3 picture book dummies I’ve been polishing up to query with. Next quarter’s goals: Finish that 1st draft + sample art for my GN + send out queries. #kidlitchat

Happy Thanksgiving!🍁🦃 Here’s a turkey I saw waiting to cross the road a few years ago.

Authors! Let's start a chain of posts of your FIRST published book. "Quote post" the cover, a link, and three words about it. I don’t have a published book yet, but here’s my first published illustration. In a children’s literary magazine when I was in the 2nd grade.

Folktale week and my entance so far. #folktaleweek2024 #folktaleweek #illustration

November's topic for #KidLitArt chat will be - Food in Books! Join @tiffanyharveyart.bsky.social & @charlenedraws.bsky.social on Nov 21, 9pm EST/6pm PST for an hour-long chat about fooooooddddd (in books... and everywhere)! Banner art by @charlenedraws.bsky.social

Folktale Week 2024 1: Mist "Kitsune no yomeiri," which means "the fox’s wedding," is a Japanese phrase used to describe a sun shower. It’s also a common motif in Japanese folklore. *Please check the comments for notes! #folktaleweekmist #folktaleweek2024 #folktaleweek #kidlitart #japanesefolklore

#FolktaleWeek Day 1: Mist! ☁️ Thought I'd try a comic interpretation of the prompt, involving my characters Blodwen and Twm. #kidlitart #folktaleweek2024 #comics

Just discovered you can do this: #kidlit #kidlitart

This one is just a sketch, but I couldn’t resist this prompt because green is my favorite color. If you see this, quote repost with something green. 💚 #kidlitart #illustration

ARTISTS! Let’s do an art share! There are now nearly 16 MILLION Bluesky accounts! Let’s find each other! Spread the post to reach the most! 💙

Hi #kidlitchat! I’m an author/illustrator making mostly picture books and working on a MG novel and a graphic novel. I studied marine biology in school and find that background often works its way into my stories. I found my way to these weekly chats when I joined Bluesky earlier this year.

It's been fun seeing familiar faces pop up here this week! If you're just arriving & are an author, illustrator, educator, or librarian, here's a list of like-minded folks to follow: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... And here's how to add yourself to the list: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It’s #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m an #authorillustrator interested in PB, BB, MG & illustrating/lettering for book covers & chapter books. A lot of my inspiration comes from my biology background and I love making STEM topics fun and accessible for kids. Currently seeking representation. #kidlitart

Some late night painting. Happy Halloween everyone! 🎃 👻 🐈‍⬛

I love to incorporate the endpaper illustrations of a picture book into the story. Either to set the mood (funny, spooky, etc.) or having different opening and ending ones that reflect a change in the story (especially if there’s a twist). #kidlitchat

Sketches of a few of my favorite traditional art supplies (but painted digitally on my iPad). #kidlitart #still-life

Ella loves dressing up in hats. They let her transform into a baseball player, a chef, a glamorous movie star and more! But, how can she choose what to be …😫? If ELLA WEARS MANY HATS…🤔—maybe she doesn’t have to choose? 🎩 🧢 👒 +🦒 #PB #skypitch

Bea lived with her flock on an island. When her favorite tambalacoque fruit finally ripened, this distracted dodo ate up! Meanwhile—her whole flock disappeared…Oh no! DODO? OH NO! (A COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION) shows how invasive species—including humans—led to the extinction of the dodo. #skypitch

Deep in the dark, Blip (a lightless anglerfish) feels a lot of pressure—sometimes cozy—sometimes crushing. When a submarine shines a light, she wonders if life in the ocean isn’t as dark as she thought? Can she swim past her fears on a bioluminescent journey in BLIP IN THE DEEP, DARK SEA? #skypitch

Feeds & starter packs like #kidlit mega feed & #kidlitart. I’ve also discovered artists through prompts where someone posts art and the next person will quote post with their own illustration of the same subject. I wish it had a hashtag so I could find these easier though. #kidlitchat