Happy #PortfolioDay I'm a Canadian artist seeking representation and open to picture book, and middle grade projects. I enjoy working in gouache, and also work digitally. #kidlitart #illustration

If you disable this on Pinterest, all AI content will not appear when you search. 😉✨️ #kidlit

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day! I had hoped to share a finished new piece I've been working on but I've been busy prepping to teach a painting class in my usual time slot I reserve for illustration work. I'm teaching it this weekend so it was crunch time. This is a bit older but works for October 😁

This makes me so happy! ❤️

I think a group of nuthatches should be called a traffic jam, because they make little beep sounds.

Artists, if you see this, post something RED! This is from a while back but fits the season I suppose!

I sent my 5 year old off to his first day of kindergarten this afternoon and I'm full of so many different emotions

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day! Seeking representation, and open to PB and MG projects! I didn't get a chance to finish anything new for today, I have a few WIPs so next month! But I didn't use the right tag on this one last time, so this still sort of counts? Excited to see everyone's art!

youtube.com/watch?v=Qwpa... I cried a few times throughout this. Keep caring about Gaza, and doing what you can even if little. Also the title is just a springboard for conversation, Ms. Rachel has been a vocal advocate and beautiful human being. There's a lot to this video, very well thought out.

I found this fabric at value village for like 10 bucks, and also found an unused sewing pattern from the 80's for a button-up shirt and wrap shorts set there as well. This is the result of sewing it up! I find thrifting fabric really fun, it feels like treasure hunting. #sewing #sewingksy

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day! I'm an illustrator seeking representation and I'm open to picture book and middle grade projects! I work both traditionally in gouache, and digitally. Check my portfolio linked in my bio for more art! #kidlitpostcard #middlegrade #picturebooks

Duck duck go is becoming a nice alternative, I find it better for searching for information about things I want to learn in general

Insomnia tip! When I’m awake at night feeling my stomach churn, I look at my own fed and beloved kid and give money to Pcrf.net

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Someone claimed the reason for this statement is to promote my own individual achievement (It was all ME!). This totally misses the mark. This statement shows worker solidarity & rejects tech that steals labor (esp from the Global South), heats the climate, reproduces racism & causes env injustices

I have a native plant bed in my front yard and the gaillardia is exploding with blooms right now ❤️ 🌱 #gardening

add yours!

The character vs how you drew the character ✨️ I really love Lion from Steven Universe 🩷 #art #fanart

Finished this book a week ago but it's still on my mind. Definitely a heavy but beautiful read. A book about a woman who can time travel into her past and an all woman cult that forms around her, and about her son, his daughter, and intergenerational trauma. It's honestly a bit surreal. 💙📚 #booksky

#kidlitpostcard day! I'm seeking representation and open to PB and middle grades projects. For more art follow my portfolio linked in my bio! #kidlitpostcardday #kidlitart

Bird art share! Show me your birds! Apparently I also keep drawing and painting birds #kidlitart #kidlit

Quite the payoff

I'm pretty sure I Spy books were the gateway to maxamilism for me also lol

Did a quick digital colour of this pigeon sketch from a while back because I felt like having a cute pigeon sign to go with my stickers at my convention table today ❤️ #kidlitart #pigeon

Happy #kidlitpostcardday ! This is not a postcard, sorry, but I wanted to put my work out there for the day either way. I'm Meagan, a freelance illustrator in Canada working mainly in gouache but also occasionally digital. I love bright colours, animals (especially birds), and fairy tales!

This was a really interesting book. It went into the complex relationships between humans and animals, and it talked about how how humans, usually from a colonialist mindset, create imbalances in ecosystems when trying to exert control over the natural world. I found it a quick read! #booksky 📚

Movies you've watched more than six times using gifs. ("Hard mode" no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

Did these cute faery designs for @oliviashley.bsky.social picture book! Might still try a few things with their clothing designs. #kidlitart #gouacheillustration

PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week. They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions. Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.

I've been using duckduckgo since it makes ai search optional and easy to have off, but this is good to know!

"to democratize art is not every person having a cute drawing made in seconds, to democratize art is every person having time and health to learn and make art if they chose to, and mainly to have the means to think and relate introspectively with art."

QRP with your yellow art!

I love painting so much. #kidlitart

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

This is adorable ❤️

If you see this QRP with your fanart! Book fanart, does this count? Evangeline from Once Upon a Brokenheart! #ouabh #fanart #booksky

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QRP with your wings! #kidlitart

The best story I've heard this week ❤️

Sketch and make art as a way to experience the world around you ❤️

Oh my goodness ❤️❤️❤️

Draw what you're wearing meme except I drew it yesterday, and took more like 10 minutes instead of 5. I felt like it was too late in the evening to post 😅 I dunno why.

Beautiful piece ❤️

A faery character design for a friend's picture book project I'm working on ❤️ painted with gouache #kidlitart #characterdesign #faery

Would you? Could you? RT for my 29th bday 🙂‍↕️🎂 nothing else is happening in this country

Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.

It's #portfolioday today! I'm a Canadian illustrator and I love using bright colours, drawing expressive faces, and animals! I work mainly traditionally with gouache but will work digitally as well

Lol wut?? The main reason people make music is because they enjoy it, what a weird claim to make

Holy shit this filing update is wild! It states that: 1. Zuckerberg gave the ok to train off copyrighted works 2. Engineers wrote scripts to remove copyright info 3. Meta downloaded illegal torrents to train models of GenAi is a house of cards, I swear. techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/m...