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Clare McCanna
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Freelance illustrator, gremlin, occasional unicorn princess Portfolio ✨ clarehenrymccanna.com Contact ✉️ [email protected]
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Clare McCanna @claremccanna.bsky.social · Dec 15
#artvsartist #artvsartist2024
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Clare McCanna @claremccanna.bsky.social · 3d
Highly relatable
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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 5d
One more before I log off for the evening:

Just a reminder that the special price on the Artist Edition of Shackling ends tomorrow morning! So jump on that, lovers of doodled huts!

Kickstarter.com/projects/babayaga/shackling
Little graphite doodles on a white background. The doodles are all different shapes and sizes and styles of chicken-legged witch huts. They're pretty cute.
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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 6d
"Morning in the Garden" is the cover art for my new book, Shackling ~ Tales from Baba Yaga's Garden

(KS launches tomorrow!)
Flatlay style photo on a black desk. There is a graphite drawing with some pencils around it and two flowers in the upper-right hand corner. The drawing is of a lady in a black dress standing in a garden, with four little Baba Yaga huts around her like chickens. There is a vague, larger Hut in the background. It's pastoral and sweet I guess?
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Clare McCanna @claremccanna.bsky.social · 6d
Yea we’re completely in line! It’s the billionaire space tourism access and attitude which makes our work much much harder! Which is why I appreciated her statement; there’s a reason we’ve only sent up people who train for years
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Clare McCanna @claremccanna.bsky.social · 6d
I love space, the research I do is related to the psychological and physiological effects of microgravity/space/isolation on the body and has resulted in incredible advances in medical knowledge all of which is to say yea she’s absolutely right
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Bentelicious Art @benteliciousart.bsky.social · 8d
Komm kuscheln im Ginkgohaufen! (Klingt verlockend, I know)
Illustration zweier Tummeltierchen, die zwischen vielen herbstgelben Ginkgo Blättern in einer kleinen Kuhle sitzen und miteinander kuscheln. Die Blätter umhüllen sie wie ein gemütliches Nest. Ein paar Tautropfen sind zu sehen und einige der Blätter sind durchscheinend Das Bild von oben. Ein paar getrocknete Blumen liegen um das Bild herum Die beiden Tummeltierchen von nahem. Vorne sieht man einen Tautropfen. Man erkennt viele detaillierte Striche in der Kolorierung der Blätter
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Anna Daviscourt 🔜 Lightbox Expo 607 @annadaviscourt.bsky.social · 10d
Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day!
I'm Anna, an author/illustrator from the PNW. I'm a fan of patterns, nature and loveable characters-all culminating in this ode to the undergrowth!

🍄[email protected]
🪲annadaviscourt.com

#Kidlitpostcard #kidlitartpostcardday
#kidlit #kidlitart #illustration
The left side is a detailed painting of brown undergrowth filled with dry leaves, twigs and bugs. Orange mushrooms and small green leaves burst through while two small green characters with leaves on their heads hold hands. The right side is white with text that reads: illustrator-author/ANNA DAVISCOURT/annadaviscourt@gmail.com/annadaviscourt.com Made with acrylic gouache and colored pencils on Bristol paper.
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Amanda Morrow @amandamorrowart.bsky.social · 10d
Hi #kidlitartpostcard 👋 I’m Amanda, and happy spooky season! I am on the lookout for fun (maybe spooky👀) picture book projects!

✏️Rep’d by The Bright Agency
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An illustration of three kids with worried expressions stand in a dimly lit hallway with bookshelves and spooky portraits. One shines a flashlight as blue footprints lead away.
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Annie Stegg Gerard @anniestegg.bsky.social · 9d
It feels like fall...the perfect time for a new Moonlit March painting! 🍂 Our woodland friends are gathering gourds and mushrooms for Mother Opossum’s Halloween feast. I started the drawing yesterday and hope to start painting tomorrow.

#MoonlitMarch #HalloweenArt #WoodlandCreatures #OpossumArt
A drawing of woodland creatures gathering mushrooms and gourds. A process compilation of images featuring woodland creatures gathering mushrooms and gourds.
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Anya @greenrainart.bsky.social · 10d
Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!
I’m Anya, illustrator and author of picture books.
Represented by Eve Adler at Red Fox Literary

#kidlitart #kidlitartist #choldrensbooksillustrator #greenrainart
Kidlitart postcard image- mom and kids picking mushrooms in an autumn forest
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Jasmine Faye @jasminefayefreitas.bsky.social · 10d
Hello again #kidlitartpostcard day! My name is Jasmine and I’m a Canadian illustrator. I’m a big fan of whimsy,fantasy,and silliness in art!
I’d love to find work illustrating books and covers!
Portfolio: www.jasminefaye.art

| #art | #illustration | #kidlitart | #childrensillustration | #halloween
A witch on a broom playing “keep away” with a ghouls pumpkin head.he is not amused
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Clare McCanna @claremccanna.bsky.social · 10d
Thank you!! I felt she needed an update from a carriage or a duster 😂
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Clare McCanna @claremccanna.bsky.social · 10d
Hi #kidlitartpostcard I’m Clare, I love watercolour, animals of all sorts, and the colour blue. Currently in DC and looking for projects
Cinderella is adjusting her glass slipper with a pumpkin hilted sword strapped to her back and in discussion with puss-in-boots while a group of four other warrior princesses wait for her. Each has signifiers suggesting their past such as Snow White’s apple embroidered surcoat, Sleeping Beauty’s rose crown, the Little Mermaid’s trident Clarehenrymccanna.com chenry74@gmail.com
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Jana Heidersdorf @checanty.bsky.social · 12d
My cover for A Plagued Sea has been revealed! 🖤
ADs: Russell Trakhtenberg & Jess Kiley for Tor Nightfire
Cover of the the novel 'A Plagued Sea' by Kim Bo-Young showing a small mountainous island surrounded by heaps of dead fish. On the island you can see a Korean village. illustration showing a small mountainous island surrounded by heaps of dead fish. On the island you can see a Korean village.
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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 12d
It's pumpkin month!!
illustration showing a large werewolf holding a pumpkin seated next to a woman holding a giant pumpkin in her lap carving it with a small knife. They are in a pumpkin patch under a full moon
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JLMeyer 🐰 @jenniferlmeyer.bsky.social · 15d
Happy International Rabbit Day!!!
Ill post rabbits to celebrate 🥳✨

#🐰
Peter Rabbit sits on a wall thinking of mischief
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Carly Milligan @carlymilligan.bsky.social · 16d
I painted these as my big middle finger to authoritarianism. They feel more relevant by the day. I'm turning them into print sets and will be donating the proceeds. What orgs would you like to see these funds go to?
Three fantasy portraits side by side, the first is painting in gold and orange tones and is a woman looking to the left super imposed with a rabbit and the text below "I hear you". The second is is in vibrant pinks, she is super imposed with a tiger staring straight at the viewer with the text below "I see you". The third she is looking up and to the right, painting is cyans and blues, super imposed with a raven and the text below "I will speak up".
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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 16d
Our neighbors gifted us a little fig sapling that was sprouting up next to their adult fig tree and I painted them a thank you card! Times like this I'm really glad to be an artist because I can give something back to generous folks!
a gouache painting of a fig
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Jennie🌷 @maobabie.com · 17d
It’s soup season!
#art
Illustration of little mice surrounding a soup pot making soup! The text reads “do not disturb.. I’m busy making soup”
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 19d
The Irish government has released a report on the benefits of the pilot for a Basic Income for the Arts, and in a total shocker, it seems like it was good for the country as well as the artists.

Nobody could have seen this coming.

#SpeirGorm #UBI

www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
Basic Income for the Arts pilot produced over €100 million in Social and Economic Benefits
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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 19d
I'll keep reposting this (from 2023) because it's always a big mood for me at the start of Fall. 🥲🍂
Illustrated comic of a cute white bunny character in a yellow sweater. First panel: bunny is thoughtfully looking up at an orange leaf falling. Second: bunny is bending over to pick up the leaf from the ground. Third: bunny is holding up the leaf towards a tree and saying “Here, you dropped this.”
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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 21d
same
Sticker on asphalt. The sticker is round and white. It says “I ❤️ CHEESE”.
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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social · 23d
Beyond the Quiet - watercolour and acryla gouache on Arches rough paper

✨3 days left to get prints on saIe through the INPRNT summer saIe!✨
A woman lies in a void, holding an orb of darkness. This orb is heavy and pulls all of the surrounding light and colours in, creating something of a prismatic black hole.
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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 24d
a sketch with digital color of a woman resting her head on her arms on top of a open book. Tangled branches envelope her, and a goblin pokes its head over the table.
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 25d
Robert Redford on Richard Nixon's death. Not much changes, I guess.
As the man who made All the President’s Men, how did you feel when Nixon died? I had no remorse. I did not think he deserved the kudos he got in death — there was this weird revisionism that went on. You feel for the family. There’s some sympathy for that. But for me it was not the passing of a great man. He was a man who dealt us some pretty undignified blows. He did not symbolize the better part of ourselves at all.
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