Congratulations to this month's Featured Illustrator Sally Chen! IG: @salpal.c Watch the interview here: youtu.be/aNN1q_Ftgps?...

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Hi #kidlitartpostcard day✨ I'm Shiho and I love illustrating books for kids! Please visit shihopate.com for more of my work. I am represented by Deborah Warren at @eastwestlit.bsky.social #kidlitart

Happy lunar new year ! 🧧🐴 I had so much fun drawing the year of the fire horse - using a much deeper, bolder palette than usual 😍 #happynewyear #illustration #kidlitart #yearofthehorse

Hello! Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day ✨️ I'm Ada, I'm a Filipino freelance illustrator available and looking for work. Growing up, March signaled the start of summer here in the 🇵🇭 so this month's postcard is inspired by that. 📨: [email protected] 🎨: adaabigael.weebly.com

hi #kidlitartpostcard! 🫶 my name is Sally Chen and I’m a queer, nonbinary, Chinese American published #illustrator (A Song for Nolan, 2024) and looking to be author! ✏️ I ❤️ stories about home, love, social justice, and more! looking for a literary agent :) 💌 [email protected] 🌐 www.salpalc.art

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks A Song for Nolan Rushie Ellenwood & Sally Chen @salpalc.bsky.social#kidlit#kidlitart#picturebooksy nuerospicyness makes the sensory pieces of roller skating parties something I'd never experienced, but I still loved this story. The use of color is excellent!

I can finally share these, two packaging artworks made for Magic: The Gathering's Lorwyn Eclipsed Draft Night box! AD: Lauren Brown They were painted in watercolour and acryla gouache on Arches paper, with some little digital changes alterations made to give the packaging the polish it needs.

The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.

all about “flipping fish”, one of my best-selling art prints! 🐠🍽️🖼️ ⭐️ get it here: www.salpalc.bigcartel.com #art #chinese #fish #superstition #artsky #artprints #shopsmall #illustration #aapiart #aapiartist #asianamerican #bigcartel #catprinted

#trinket collectors is finally done!! 🥳🎈 i put so many little loving details into this piece like pineapple buns, an apple pie chalk sign, & little patches & keychains, inspired by the revival in adding jingle janglies to bags 🎒💫💕 #art #illustration #kidlitillustrator #artprocess #fashion #cute

recent dog portraits!!!! 1/2

to my poh poh who i will continue to terrorize with kisses 🫶🏼 #art #asianamerican #painting #acrylicpaint #aapiart #illustrator #aapi #cantonese #artprocess

“Candle Keepers” (2025) mixed media, 14”x17” is for sale! 🕯️🫶🏼 🍀 50% goes to @uniondelbarrio.bsky.social ⭐️ 💌 email me at [email protected] if interested in purchasing

progress on “trinket collectors”! #art #illustration #scbwi #kidlit #whimsical #colorpencil #kidlitart #childrensillustration

⭐️ shop update & sale on www.salpalc.bigcartel.com 🍀🫶🏼 #illustration #shopsmall #artsky #stickers #whimsical #kidlitart

my stickers are now available at one of my favorite bookstores in NYC — @astoriabookshop.bsky.social !! ⭐️ thank you for having me in all my silly glory 🥹🫶🏼 #shopsmall #nyc #stickers #cutesy #silly #whimsical #stickershop #artist

Come see “Daughter Cycles” (2025) at @flushingtownhall.bsky.social until our Closing Reception tmw! It explores my grandmother’s life, mother’s life, and mine in sequence. #art #queensnyc #nycart #aapiartist #asianamerican #immigrantstories #inkwork #brushpen #artgallery #illustrator #flushingnyc

dog portraits as of late!! 🐕‍🦺🐾 #pets #portrait #commsopen #drawing #art #nyc #dogs #cuteanimals #smallartist

cozy cats I drew recently! 🐈💓 #colorpencil #art #nycartist #petportraits #cats #pets

“Cloud Watching from the Kitchen” #coloring process for @scbwi.bsky.social #scbwiartober2025 day 11: kettle 🫖🪟🌥️ the details closest to my heart are: the 4-leaf clover kettle, the stickers on the step stool, & the raspberry dessert… 🥹🩵 #art #kidlit #teatime #nostalgia #kitchen #vintage #autumn

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Sally, a queer, NB, Chinese-American #illustrator in NYC! 🌱 I'd love to work on book projects, editorial, indie games (esp TTRPGs), & murals. Open to other opportunities too! 🌈 www.salpalc.art 💌 [email protected] 🔎 looking for a literary agent #kidlitart #illustration #art

final + closeups of #scbwiartober2025 day 06: candle 🕯️ @scbwi.bsky.social inspired by birthday celebrations + hot air balloons ⭐️ #illustration #artober #colorpencil #cake #whimsy #drawing #inktober #childrensbookillustration #art #strawberry #illustrator #scbwiartists

#scbwiartober2025 day 11: kettle “Cloud Watching from the Kitchen” ☁️🫖🪟 is inspired by tea time memories & featuring my favorite cutting board and my hanging plants 🫶🏼🪴 #illustration #kitchen #ink #drawing #scbwi #artober #kidlitart #dibujo #childrensbookart #whimsical #cozy #autumn #inktober

“Up, Up, & Happy Birthday” for #scbwiartober2025 day 06: candle!! I’m a #kidlitillustrator looking for a literary agent 🍀 #artist #kidlit #colorpencil #illustration #イラスト #dibujo #ink #cute #birthdaycake #scbwiillustrator #drawingprocess

a tiny tetra study 🐟

“Up, Up, & Happy Birthday!” final + closeups for #scbwiartober2025 day 06: candle 💛 made with @robertoster.bsky.social ink + a glass dip pen #artober #artwork #illustration #ink #イラスト #whimsy #kidlitart #drawing #kidlitartist #scbwi #插画 #inktober #illustrationjeunesse

There are so many creatures in and around the goblin city

#scbwiartober2025 day 6: candle 🕯️ “Up, Up, & Happy Birthday” is inspired by jet packs and birthday celebrations made with @robertoster.bsky.social toffee ink & a glass dip pen ⭐️ #art #lineart #artober #illustration #inking #cake #dessert #kidlitart #artprocess #イラスト #artist #drawing #whimsical

#scbwiartober2025 day 01 “Who Ate My Squash?” in India ink & color pencil! ⭐️ 📍 i’m a kidlit illustrator based in NYC looking for a literary agent! #kidlitart #drawing #colorpencil #illustration #scbwi #indiaink #cute #artober #autumn #whimsical #childrensbook

light filtering through my window to my sketchbook :) ⛅️🪟✨ #illustrator #colorpencil #trees #whimsical #sketchbook

#scbwiartober2025 day 1: squash #coloring process :) #artsky #illustrator #whimsical

#artprocess video for #scbwiartober2025 day 1: squash! 🧑🏻‍🌾 #kidlitart #illustrator #gardening #ink

drew the prettiest squashes in my sketchbook the other day!! 🥹 #artsky #sketchbook #colorpencil #kidlitart #autumn #garden

birthday drawings for my friends :) #artsky #illustration #nostalgia #sketchbook #colorpencil #queerartist #nycartist

some of my fave portraits i did at a vow renewal ceremony in Long Island! ❤️ #artsky #vowrenewal #liveportraits #portraitartist #nycartist #longisland #seacliff #weddingartist #colorpencil

From NYC, With Love (2025), my new #SingForHope #Piano available for public play at #UnionSquarePark until June 29! 🥹🫶🏼 #nyc #nycartist #art #manhattan #kidlitart #whimsy #animals #paint #aapiartist

Neighbors don't let neighbors get eaten ✊🏽

new sticker drop :) ⭐️ salpalc.bigcartel.com #trans #happypride #lgbtq #artsky #wholesome #art #stickers #shopsmall #nonbinary #illo

shop update :) 🌈 salpalc.bigcartel.com #artsky #illustrator #artforsale #wholesome #stickers #artprints #shopsmall #trans #whimsical

The End (2025) depicting the end of a journey from adventurers who set out to find a legendary banned book. When they finally free the book from its shackles, they find the message that they’ve all been kept away from all along. ⭐️ salpalc.bigcartel.com #artsky #lgbtqia #queerart #wholesome #illust

coming soon to #UnionSquarePark! :) #artsky #nycartist #subway #cuteanimals #illustration

happy little guys on the #subway! 🥹🚉💖 sneak peek of my upcoming #SingForHope #piano at #UnionSquarePark, available for public playing for a month in June! #nyc #nycartist #artsky #kidlitart #illustration #cuteart #animals #painting #queerartist #communityart #paintedpiano #subwayart @mta.info

sketching at the museum

Seeds of A New World Are Buried In Each of Us (2025) #acryliconcanvas inspired by the inherent goodness and endless possibilities that exist in each of us and therefore our world :) #illustration #artsky #nycartist #queerartist #contemporaryartist #wholesome #aapiartist #originalart #painting

some of my favorite #nyc silly little guy #petportraits as of late! 🐾💖

ppl on tiktok are going "omg we're about to have an art renaissance like in the 1920s, music and stories are gonna be great" girl how 😭 you already don't support the artists that we have right now and most of yall are using chatgpt and devaluing actual human-made artwork.

I actually like trying. My progress is slow but it is mine.