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Anna Daviscourt 🔜 Lightbox Expo 607

@annadaviscourt.bsky.social

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Illustrator, Author #kidlit No AI 🚫 I make books for kids and cool people www.annadaviscourt.com

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Anna Daviscourt 🔜 Lightbox Expo 607 @annadaviscourt.bsky.social · Jul 9

Hello #PortfolioDay!
I'm a children's book author/illustrator who loves nature, animals, fun characters, authentic stories and anything goofy!
I'm available for picture books, covers, advertising and visual development.
Rep'd by Shannon Associates
www.annadaviscourt.com

A big multicolored fish in an aquarium being admired by a little kid

A Halloween/spooky parade filled with multiple interesting characters-a flying witch, a cloaked crow, a giant black cat, and royal frog, several celebrating skeletons, a cloaked rat/bat, and tall burning jack-o-lantern and a central horned old lady.

A jolly porcupine walking and talking amongst foliage while an admiring white bunny watches. From the book "Not A Book About Bunnies" written by Amanda Henke and illustrated by Anna Daviscourt

An explorer wearing a glowing helmet walking through a dark forest surrounded by glowing butterflies and hidden ominous faces.

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JesteniaS @citrusfoam.bsky.social · 19h

Hello again #Portfolioday!
My name is Jestenia! I'm a children's book illustrator and character designer based in Boston. I would love it if you kept me in mind for any viz dev or picture book projects
🌱Portfolio: citrusfoam.com
🌱Contact: [email protected]

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Pablo Rivera @pablonotpicasso.bsky.social · 20h

Happy portfolio day! I’m an artist with experience on projects for companies ranging from Wizards of the Coast to Walt Disney Animation, though my constant passion in art is always depicting glimpses of prehistoric worlds 🦖 #portfolioday #paleoart #paleosky #dinosaurart

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Emmy Brown Illustration @emmbrr.bsky.social · 16h

#PortfolioDay Hello! I’m Emmy, a children’s book illustrator primarily working with anthro animal characters. I’m open for PBs & chapter books with availability for all of 2026 🤍

emmybrownillustration.com
[email protected]

Two frogs sitting around a campfire. One plays the banjo and sings. The other sleeps. The image is a digital painting in mostly greens with an orange fire in the center

A digital painting of a pumpkin house on a black background. A ghost mouse with a trick or treat bag approaches the front door. A brown mouse looks out the window at it. They smile at each other

A black and white graphite drawing of four little kittens in a four post bed. They’re all sleeping except for one, who is playfully looking out of one open eye

A digital painting of a grey raccoon in a bluish grey trash can. He holds up a bunch of trash like it’s the best thing in the world

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 20h

it’s that time of year again 🍂🍃

four simplistic drawings of a fluffy white dog rolling around in red, yellow, and orange leaves while exclaiming “leaf, leaf”

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Julian Plum @julianplum.com · 23h

It's #portfolioday!!

I'm Julian, a queer 🏳️‍⚧️ illustrator from the foggy Finger Lakes of Upstate NY. I work in traditional gouache & promise I know colors that aren't green. I'm rep'd by Naomi Davis @ BookEnds Literary!

🌿 julianplum.com
🐌 [email protected]

#kidlitart #picturebooks #illustration

A lush, intricate gouache painting featuring many leaves in different colors and textures, plus native birds, insects, flowers, and seeds.

A gouache painting featuring a grasshopper sparrow sitting among a riot of pastel wildflowers. Behind it a gray birch reaches into a blue sky.

A crop from a painting featuring a windswept brown-haired girl gently holding an egg, looking up in the direction of the wind at the legs of a crane taking off above her.

Gouache painting featuring a cross-section of a garden: above the earth, radish leaves are covered in ladybugs; below the earth, radishes, roots, and earthworms are visible in the dirt.

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Linda Liu @ SBCF 2025 @lindersliu.bsky.social · 17h

hey #portfolioday! i’m linda, an author-illustrator available for work! my project wishlist includes:

⭐️ PB illustration
⭐️ BG paint
⭐️ MG/YA cover/interior

for publishing opportunities:
💌 [email protected]

for everything else:
💌 [email protected]

see more work here: lindersliu.com

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Stephanie Campisi @stephcampisi.bsky.social · 18h

Hello, #portfolioday! I'm an Aussie writer based in SoCal. I specialise in the weird and whimsical for all ages, and have extensive experience working with IP.

I have some availability in 2026, so if you have something a bit silly and fun, drop me a line!

Rep: [email protected]

The post author's books, including The Little Coffee Shop of Terrors, Four Weddings and a Funeral Director, Two's a Charm, Sparkle Pigs, Warrior Fairies, The Unfinished Business, Luis and Tabitha and Pebble Without a Cause

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Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · 22h

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔

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Anna Daviscourt 🔜 Lightbox Expo 607 @annadaviscourt.bsky.social · 1d

Ready for Lightbox mentally, but there's still lots to do! Hope to see you there!

#KidLitArt #LBX2025 #LightBoxExpo

A painting of a school of blue and green fish swimming among red tulips on a dark background. Text: Come see me at LIGHTBOX EXPO 2025/October 24-26, 2025/TABLE 607/www.Lightboxexpo.com
Artwork by Anna Daviscourt

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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 1d

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Anna Daviscourt 🔜 Lightbox Expo 607 @annadaviscourt.bsky.social · 1d

Ready for Lightbox mentally, but there's still lots to do! Hope to see you there!

#KidLitArt #LBX2025 #LightBoxExpo

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 4d

to most people, creativity in of itself has no reward. it's all grind, and usually capped off by burn out, what's the point. capitalism validates that belief. so why not just outsource the process and just get to the part they need

and that's horrifying, tragic, and deeply angering all at once

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Anna Daviscourt 🔜 Lightbox Expo 607 @annadaviscourt.bsky.social · Jun 2

Silly Goose
🍌🍌🍌

#KidLitArt #GouacheArt #Goose

A gouache painting of a white goose with a banana on its head among strawberries surrounded by a decorative green border. Watermark: AnnaDaviscourt.com

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 5d

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it?

Chiitan forever

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 6d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 6d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 5d

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Devin Elle Kurtz @devinellekurtz.bsky.social · 7d

Bakery Dragon book 2 is out today!!! 🌟

a photo of the book "the bakery dragon and the Fairy cake" by Devin Elle Kurtz. it features a little red dragon stirring a bowl of cake batter. a fairy dumps in sprinkles. behind them is a glorious wall of blue and purple cakes!

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Holiest Mallard @holiestmallard.bsky.social · 7d

Have some actual human emotions regarding AI, LLMs and SORA2.

More people should have this fire lit under their asses.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz0o...

Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.

YouTube video by Hank Green

m.youtube.com

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Anna Daviscourt 🔜 Lightbox Expo 607 @annadaviscourt.bsky.social · 8d

I can't remember when I made this, I must have the memory of a...goldfish.

#KidLitArt #GouacheArt #Goldfish

A pastel drawing of a trio of goldfish swimming through light blue water. I used a fluorescent pink as a wash, then drew on top with pastels and colored pencils. Watermark: AnnaDaviscourt.com

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Anna Daviscourt 🔜 Lightbox Expo 607 @annadaviscourt.bsky.social · 8d

I can't remember when I made this, I must have the memory of a...goldfish.

#KidLitArt #GouacheArt #Goldfish

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Sprouts 🌱🔜 BLFC DD @coolartcorner.bsky.social · 9d

currently the mood rn

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ash s. @housegoblin.bsky.social · 9d

halloween party (2020)

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 9d

K-Pop Demon Hunters is legitimately the global cultural phenomenon of 2025 and honestly there are far worse things to be a cultural touchstone this year than a trio of young women fighting literal soul-sucking hegemony through the power of their art

E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 9d

Oh crap, it's back at #1 in movies again today on Netflix too. That's awesome!

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Micah Seacole @micahseacole.bsky.social · 10d

#Illustration - Halloween

Redraw of Ilya and Rakki dancing.
Genuinely just in love with how this looks. No notes.

#ArtSky #OCSky #MicahsOCs #DigitalArt

Ilya in a scarecrow costume dancing with his dog Rakki who wears demon wings and horns. there are pumpkins and Halloween decorations in the background.

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Brian Kirby @boringstorybook.com · 9d

Looks like there were 301 October #kidlitartpostcards! Browsing the hashtag on the FLASHES app is my fav way to see the art. It is like an Instagram experience, but without any algorithm/chronology issues.

It’s an iPhone app, but they announced a beta version coming for Android. @flashes.blue

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