Thank you, Mary Helen, and for your wonderful story! π
Thank you, Mary Helen, and for your wonderful story! π
Blue Boat Home
What a thrill to learn that my latest picture book, Blue Boat Home, has won a Northern Lights Book Award for Best Illustration and a Merit Award in the 3 x 3 Magazine Annual 2025 Professional Show No, 22! It was a great pleasure to illustrate the lyrics to the song of the same nameβ¦
It was a joy to illustrate Enough to Share by Mary Helen Berg for Tielmour Press! Launching Earth Day, April 22nd!
@maryhelenberg.bsky.social @tielmourpress.bsky.social
@stormsy.bsky.social just informed me that it's Squirrel Appreciation Day! I love the little critters and they love my trees, and roof:) A few from the archives. #SquirrelAppreciationDay #squirrel #kidlitart #childrensbooks
I love these cuties!β€οΈ Thanks for the head up, Patricia. I'll have to dig up some squirrels. (I mean from the art archivesπ)
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If youβre looking for books that play with your perception of reality while leaving you in stitches, then these two books by Rob Gotobed are an absolute must-read. The collections of short stories are as funny as they are intellectually engaging, with humour thatβs both surreal and cerebral.
Sharing my latest news from @hireillo.com. Happy New Year!
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#kidlit #kidlitart #illustration #happy
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Rachel McCrum interviewed #kidlit author Gillian Sze and me for the Blue Metropolis Bold & Creative podcast. She asked about our book The Night is Deep and Wide by @orcabook.bsky.social. Great discussion about writing and illustrating for kids!
#childrensbooks
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Honoured to receive a Merit award from 3 x 3 Illustration Annual! Winning images are from Blue Boat Home by Peter Mayer for @skinnerhouse.bsky.social . The Annual is launching in January but available for online viewing now. @3x3mag.bsky.social
#kidlitart #picturebook
Exciting to be invited to join Video Shop: The Blockbuster Experience project by @hireillo.com! We got to choose from a list of vintage classic movies, some great, some cheesy. I chose cheeseπ. Hire an Illustrator is selling our posters online, 13 posters by 13 illustrators. press.hireillo.com
Thank you, Laura! I'm a late bird on Bluesky:)
Cool to see my linocut art enlarged for the River Oaks Community Centre in Oakville, selected as part of Oakville's Connextions 2025 project. It's a joy to see art integrated into the community!
#publicart #illustration #community
Good to see you virtually, Patricia! I've been kind of delinquent on socials, my bad!
For #scbwiDrawThis September prompt of Travel, a spread from picture book Blue Boat Home by musician Peter Mayer for @skinnerhouse.bsky.social @uua.org
#scbwiillustrators #scbwi
I hope so too! Love these characters!β€οΈ
Thank-you, Mary Helen! I am very excited about illustrating your wonderful story for @tielmourpress.bsky.social I learn a lot of cool stuff from picture books!
Sharing the first review of my new picture book, Blue Boat Home by Skinner House Books in Foreword Reviews! Can't wait for the April 1st launch!
@skinnerhouse.bsky.social #kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks
Last chance to not only register for this Thursday's BETWEEN US: AN INTIMATE Q&A WITH CALDECOTT HONOREES, MOLLY IDLE & JUANA MATRTINEZ-NEAL but for our complete PUBLISHING PATH WEBINAR SERIES! www.scbwi.org/events/rmc-2...
A digital Bingo card makes bookish suggestions for doing good including, follow a Canadian publisher on social media, Share a positive review online, attend a book event in person or online, read a book by a local author, subscribe to our monthly newsletter, shop at an independent book store, borrow a Canadian book from the library, recommend a book to a friend, share a post from an illustrator on social media.
Welcome to 2025! Are you setting a reading goal or making a book-themed resolution? Do a little good and have a little fun by participating in our 2025 "Do-Good" Book Bingo. Each square includes a challenge that supports Canadian book creators. Happy reading!
Happy St. Patrick's Day! This was from a series of Holy cards for Karla Verlag, Germany, linocut with digital colour.
#illustration #religious #StPatrick #Christian
I'm amassing quite a collection of these cute little art trading cards from @hireillo.com
#artcard #illustration #kidlitart
Celebrating Black History Month with a few images from Two Finger Guitar, a chapter book about blues guitarist, Etta Baker, for Gibbs Smith Education. Linocut with digital color.
#kidlit #educational #BlackHistoryMonth
Sharing a few illustrations from the 2026 Magical Almanac by Llewellyn Worldwide, created in my new digital ink technique.
I still carve lino but am enjoying mixing it up with drawing on the ipad in Procreate. Multiple undos are magical!
#illustration #digitalart #procreate #digitalink
In memory of David Lynch, a brilliant filmmaker and creative genius. This digital ink portrait is an ode to his ground breaking student work, Eraserhead.
#portraiture #digitalink #davidlynch #illustration
Such a body of work!β€οΈ
Happy Year of the Snake! Wishing everyone a ssssspectacular year!
Thanks! Good luck with yours!
I was thrilled to receive advance copies of my latest picture book, Blue Boat Home, by musician Peter Mayer for Skinner House Books @skinnerhouse.bsky.social. My new digital ink style accompanies the beautiful lyrics. Official launch is April 2025 but it's available for pre-order now.