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Claudia Osmond🌙✨(she/her)

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Claudia Osmond🌙✨(she/her) @claudiaosmond.bsky.social · Apr 13

Birds lend themselves wonderfully to the imagination ✨ 🐦‍⬛ ✨

#birds #ravensworld #art #illustration

A raven on an inky yellow background. The raven has a forest as its belly and the moon is hanging by a string from the raven’s beak

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Claudia Osmond🌙✨(she/her) @claudiaosmond.bsky.social · 1d

I. Am. Hooked. 🧵🪡

#embroidery #fiberart #thread

Embroidery hoop with partially completed embroidered flowers. The flower that’s finished is a deep red petunia with mossy green stem and leaves

Claudia Osmond🌙✨(she/her) @claudiaosmond.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you Debbie! 😊

Claudia Osmond🌙✨(she/her) @claudiaosmond.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you 😊

Claudia Osmond🌙✨(she/her) @claudiaosmond.bsky.social · 4d

I haven’t taught myself a new skill in a while so I spent a good chunk of this past holiday Monday learning some of the basics of embroidery. I do love using threads and yarns (hello 1990’s cross stitch!) and so I think this skill will be a keeper! 🧵🪡

#embroidery #thread

A beginner’s attempt at an embroidery sampler. Mossy greens, golds, and terracottas are the main colours

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Claudia Osmond🌙✨(she/her) @claudiaosmond.bsky.social · 5d

They are! 💛🧡

Claudia Osmond🌙✨(she/her) @claudiaosmond.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t even mind those things 😊 I do enjoy winter, too

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Claudia Osmond🌙✨(she/her) @claudiaosmond.bsky.social · 5d

Fall is so my jam. I love everything about it 🍂🌾

#fall #autumn #sunflowers

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Claudia Osmond🌙✨(she/her) @claudiaosmond.bsky.social · 7d

Giving thanks in the midst of hardship can be one of the hardest things, and also one of the most helpful things, too. It reminds us of the good things in our lives, those things that are wrapped around glimmers of joy that abide deep inside. Joy is ours to keep. Gratefulness is how we access it ✨

A painting of birch trees with autumn leaves falling from them. A small wood fence with a pumpkin on it sits below. The words “giving thanks” are stamped on either side of the trees

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 17d

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day! I wanted to take my Unhaunters into a non-terrifying urban monster experience for fall & was inspired by a laneway walk.

I'm an experienced cartoonist, illustrator & educator seeking representation for my graphic novels, middle grade, beginning reader & picture books.

Leaves start to turn yellow, orange and red in a long laneway lined with weeds and ivy growing among fences and garage doors, with a canopy from backyard trees. Coming from the ivy is a plant creature with a sunflower-like face, who smiles as they use multiple tendril arms to sprawl out chalk drawings on the pavement of a simple green dragon with yellow fire breath and a blue wizard. A purple haired goth kid joins in, making a pink googly-eyed bat. Another kid with a blue lollipop looks on from the extreme foreground. The bright sun casts purple leafy patterns over much of the alley, suggesting it's mid afternoon or mid-morning.

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Brian Kirby @boringstorybook.com · 17d

Happy #kidlitartpostcard Day! I’m Brian Kirby, I write and illustrate humorous stories for kids (and their caregivers).

Website - BrianKirbyStudio.com
Agent - @kaitlynleann17.bsky.social @bradfordagents.bsky.social

#kidlit

Cartoon of a ragged-looking mummy sitting at a desk, shopping for cat nail clippers, and an orange cat on the floor next to him, clawing one of his a tattered, loose unravelling bandages.

Brian Kirby
Author/Illustrator
Represented by
Kaitlyn Sanchez
Bradford Literary Agency
BrianKirbyStudio.com

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 17d

Hello #kidlitartpostcard ! I am Charlene Chua & I illustrate books for kids.

🌟Open for 2026 book projects! 🌟

Portfolio - charlenechua.com
Agent - Tracy Marchini

#kidlitart #kidlit #illustration #PB #GN #chapterbooks #boardbooks

art of 3 cute witches riding on broomsticks above a city. each witch has a cute cat familiar riding with her.

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Patricia Storms @stormsy.bsky.social · 16d

Happy #kidlitartpostcard Day! I illustrate books for children. I love creating happy art full of nature and animals and people enjoying life. #kidlit #kidlitart #Illustration #Picturebooks #BoardBooks #MG #PositiveArt

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Claudia Osmond🌙✨(she/her) @claudiaosmond.bsky.social · 28d

So you mean it doesn’t end? This is me when people always get books *published* never mind awards 😩

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Claudia Osmond🌙✨(she/her) @claudiaosmond.bsky.social · Aug 17

Thank you Rebecca! 😊✨

Claudia Osmond🌙✨(she/her) @claudiaosmond.bsky.social · Aug 17

The Sturgeon Moon was especially brilliant far away from the city lights 🌕✨

#reservefauniquedemastigouche #sturgeonmoon #camping #fullmoon #art

Painting of a full moon’s reflection on a lake, with a silhouette of mountains in the background

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Claudia Osmond🌙✨(she/her) @claudiaosmond.bsky.social · Aug 17

Kobayashi Issa! 🥰

Claudia Osmond🌙✨(she/her) @claudiaosmond.bsky.social · Aug 16

One of the sites we stayed in on this trip was beside a swiftly flowing river with an old wooden bridge The slats were far apart, water rushed over rocks beneath it, the sun-bleached wood bounced as we walked. On the other side I found the most magical thing: the sparkly new beginnings of a story ✨

Claudia Osmond🌙✨(she/her) @claudiaosmond.bsky.social · Jul 19

Seeing a blue jay land nearby is always a stop-what-you’re-doing-and-watch moment 💙✨

#birds #bluejay #ink #illustration

Painting of a blue jay perched on a branch

Claudia Osmond🌙✨(she/her) @claudiaosmond.bsky.social · Jul 12

I’ve wanted a dragon tattoo for a very long time, and I’m totally in love with this amazing collab between my incredibly creative friend Maia and the equally talented @bekmurrell (@witchhazeltattoo)! Maia created the original design and Bek added their signature style to it, laying it down in ink 🖤✨

Tattoo of a flying dragon surrounded by daisies and a crescent moon and stars on a woman’s upper arm

Claudia Osmond🌙✨(she/her) @claudiaosmond.bsky.social · Jul 4

Collage! 😃

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Claudia Osmond🌙✨(she/her) @claudiaosmond.bsky.social · Jul 3

I hope to be there!

Claudia Osmond🌙✨(she/her) @claudiaosmond.bsky.social · Jul 1

This is my latest collage. I’m having so much fun with these! 😃✨

#collage #art #surrealism

Collage of a woman with snails for hair, a fancy diamond necklace, a large pencil-drawn eye, a hairy arm with a cigarette, a bird for another arm, water and sky in the background. The words “the status of nature” are typed across her upper lip

Claudia Osmond🌙✨(she/her) @claudiaosmond.bsky.social · Jun 30

Thank you Debbie! 🖤

Claudia Osmond🌙✨(she/her) @claudiaosmond.bsky.social · Jun 29

I guess you could say I love ravens 🐦‍⬛✨

#ravens #birds #illustration

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Claudia Osmond🌙✨(she/her) @claudiaosmond.bsky.social · Jun 29

Editing capabilities! 👏🏻