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Clay
@clayadamah.bsky.social
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#KidLitArt

reading books, drawing stuff,
and tree-watching with birds. 🌳 👀
🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

https://clayadamah.wixsite.com/clayadamah
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If you're working on something meaningful to you even though you're worried about being able to publish it or be compensated for it amidst the book bans and "soft" censorship, I appreciate you, thank you.

And so does Freya—she offers you the cutest toe beans in Beantown in gratitude.
A cute cuddly gray and white cat curled up on a blanket, paws outstretched and eyes partly closed, pink nose tucked against black toe beans.
October 30, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Detail from a work in progress 🌊

I've been wanting to combine traditional and digital illustration for so long and I'm finally learning how! Thank you to the fabulous @priscillaalpaugh.bsky.social for all the wisdom and encouragement!
#KidLitArt
A detail of a colored pencil and digital drawing that shows an illustration of a troll made of seaweed with a mussel eye and a seagull beak nose lurking under a boardwalk bridge. Art by Clay Adamah.
October 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I found some old-ish art from 2022. It's the only time I've done isometric—so fun but so many linessss!! Anyone have any cool isometric art? I'd love to see!
An isometric drawing of a room with a loft area that has a kitchen under it. There's a big stone fireplace, a living area, and a bed in the loft with lots of detailed decor including pride flags, cat shelves, a glowing pumpkin, and bird stained glass. Illustration by Clay Adamah.
September 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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After weeks of trying, I finally got a photo of this guy—the elusive coney!
A snapshot of a traffic cone with a googly eye on top of two rusty poles, resembling a traffic cone creature photobombing a picture of the side of the road.
August 28, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Did a lil' design for the #MATSArtChallenge8 quotation prompt and now I want to go live in a mossy rock house and befriend a chipmunk. #KidLitArt
An illustrated hand lettered quote that reads "Even so, there are tiny moments of beauty" Lilla Rogers. The illustration shows a mossy pile of rocks inhabited by four tiny people and a chipmunk. Two are painting a rainbow, one reading on a mushroom, and one perching on a ledge sharing a bowl with the inquisitive chipmunk.
June 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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feelin' the almost-summer-vibes today ☀️
#KidLitArt
A sketch of character art for three kids, each with a family reunion tee shirt. The one labeled Mo is shrugging, tall and lanky with board shorts and a bit of a sunburn. The one labeled Elle has blue tipped hair, stands with their hands on their hips, and has altered their shirt into a fringy dress. The one labeled Pip is an irate baby clutching a bundled up tee shirt and wearing a swim diaper. Art by Clay Adamah
June 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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coffee shop doodle ☕️
#KidLitArt
an ink and wash digital line drawing of a tween kid standing casually with a slightly concerned expression in shorts and a tee shirt and also wearing glasses, a kippah, and socks with sandals. They are holding a gnarled root that has letters floating around it. art by Clay Adamah 2025
May 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Our local brackish pond has begun to ice over. Left two from today and yesterday, right two from a few weeks ago.
a black and white photograph of a group of snags in a marsh pointed up toward the moon in a clear winter sky. A bluish photograph of the sun setting over a treeline surrounding a partially frozen pond with icied over marsh grasses in the foreground. a cloudy sky reflects in blues and pale yellows on a slightly textured pond surface with reeds peeking out on the right and a narrow dark swath of distant trees through the center. A bright orange grassy marsh with a few pale snags fills the bottom half of the photo with a cloudy ombre blue sky in the top half and strip of a body of water and shoreline of trees visible through the center.
January 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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A lil’ birthday sketch for a family member.
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A drawing of a cartoon orange cat with yellow eyes emerging from behind varied foliage. Their tail is a crooked spiral and paw is paused in the air as it regards a singing Robin perched on an olive green plant. Art by Clay Mil.
January 5, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Kismet played dreidel a lil too hard last night. (Don’t worry, he purred the whole time.)
A fluffy orange cat sleeps on his side with on white socked paw outstretched on a sofa with four blue and white dreidels scattered amongst his paws and tummy.
January 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Some of my favorite books from my 2024 reads 📚💖🌈

Books read: 352
Pages read: 90,890

#BookSky
Book covers of, Klara and the Sun, The Tea Dragon Tapestry, The Maid, The Thursday Murder Club, Alterations, Sheine Lende, ¡Ay Mija!, The Guncle, and Aya: Life in Yop City. Book covers of The Lost Shtetl, Voyage of the Damned, The Wicked Bargain, The Spell Shop, An Immense World, Greenglass House, The Buried Giant, The Pomegranate Gate, Even the Darkest Stars, Swimming in the Dark, Light of the Midnight Stars, and Dear Mothman. Covers of Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop, Sir Callie and the Witch’s War, Lavender Clouds, Tevye the Dairyman, Across a field of Starlight, Junior High, The Essential Dykes to watch out for, vinland saga, one killer problem, until I love myself, portrait of a body, and finlay donovan is killing it. Book covers of The ribbon skirt, network effect, the mythmakers, the hidden life of trees, Emily wilde’s encyclopaedia of faeries, mouse guard: the black axe, for better or for worse volume two, the captain’s verses, some fruit, snapdragon, patterns in nature, and trans and non-binary comics: The out side.
January 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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My sister-in-law introduced me to Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, Explorers of Time and I needed some art therapy to express my feelings.
#pokemon #comics
A comic in colored pencil of the Pokémon Chatot, saying to Bidoof, “And I said to him, Wigglytuff, if we don’t take a 90% cut, they’ll have enough money to think about unionizing! Chatot, a blue and yellow bird, has his eyes narrowed and is standing on a pile of gold. Bidoof, who looks similar to a beaver, looks taken aback. Comic by Clay Mil.
January 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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I asked what I should draw and my MIL suggested gnomes or her dachshund, Schnitzel, so we went for the dynamic duo.

#illustration #prismacolor #kidlitart
Colored pencils lay on top of a sketch of a garden gnome in blue and yellow with a bright red cap riding on the back of a mocha colored dachshund, also wearing a red pointed hat, speedily tromping through some purple flowers on a bed of greenery. Art by Clay Mil.
December 31, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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This Chanukah
may your laughter be playful,
may your love be filling,
may your branches be curious,
may your roots be grounding,
may your darkness be nourishing,
may your flames be strengthening,
may your oil be plentiful,
and may your dedication be meaningful.

חג חנוכה שמח
Chag Chanukah Sameach
A glowy drawing depicts a hands uses a shamash to light four blue candles in a hannukah menorah with stars on the branches before a sunset colored backdrop as sparkling smoke drifts upwards on a dark blue background.
December 26, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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Cozy cat cuddles, family movie night, cocoa, and sketching on the docket tonight ❄️ I’ve been doodling these two kiddos.
#KidLitArt
A sketch of two kids standing side by side. On the left is a kid who has short brown hair with a rainbow stripe, casual clothes, including a green tee and red sneakers, and an AAC device hanging across their chest. On the right a kid with light skin and blue hair has a sweatshirt sporting a pink skull and matching pink boots. They are looking at each other with shy smiles. Sketch by Clay Mil.
December 24, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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Jewish Letter Boxed achievement unlocked 👀

@lexaphus.bsky.social I feel like you’d appreciate this.
The New York Times puzzle game called letter boxed where you connect letters laid out around the edge of a square. It is shown as solved in three words out of a par of five using the words “toxic cholent today”
December 15, 2024 at 4:23 AM
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you see this post some holiday tree art 🌲

Continuing the winter holiday potluck with Chanukah art from last year.

Party animals all tuckered out. Latkes and sufganiyot ‘ll do that to ya.

#kidLitArt #JewishArt #illustration #Chanukah #Hannukah
A gathering of northern forest animals such as foxes, bears, hedgehogs, and mice snuggles around a lit menorah. The candles glow against snowy pine trees with a thin sliver of a moon in the night sky. A crow steals a dreidel and a Cardinal attempts to share some gelt while little mice with full bellies snooze on some plates of latke and sufganiyot remnants. Illustration by Clay Mil.
December 11, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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Got around to compiling my #folktaleweek2024 story. My goal was to take a break from plotting and start each day with no plan and just see what happened!

“Basil and the Skull” - inspired by the Russian folktale Vasilisa the Beautiful.

#folktaleweek #kidlitart #sequentialart #sequentialart
A photo collage of drawings titled Basil and the Skull. It says written and illustrated by Clay Mil ‘24 hashtag folktaleweek on top and claymil.carrd.co and at claymil.bsky.social on the bottom. Image one shows a kid with a glowing skull in their backpack looking out from behind a tree in a misty wood. Image two shows the kid climbing stairs in a dark house, sleeping with the skull under their bed, and then waking up surrounded by mustard colored mushrooms. Image four shows the same kid following chicken tracks through a forest at night. Image five depicts the skull dropping down a hole and the kid following it into a tunnel and traversing multiple obstacles to make it out. Image six shows the kid returning the glowing skull to its family of glowing skull fenceposts. The final image reads “the end” and shows the kid holding their hand out to a baby version of baba yaga’s chicken hut to nuzzle. Art by Clay Mil.
November 27, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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And that’s a wrap on #folktaleweek2024!

Thank you @folktaleweek.bsky.social for the awesome prompts! And thank you everyone participating for filling my feed with gorgeous #folktaleweek art this week! Off to repost some of my favs 💚

#kidlitart #illustration #folktaleweekblossom
A drawing showing a kid wearing a kippah, purple sweater, brown backpack and red sneakers kneeling down to offer their hand to an oversized baby chick whose top half is a tiny cottage. They are surrounded by mushrooms, bones, rocks, and dried grass. Text reads “the end”. Art by Clay Mil.
November 24, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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Second to last night of posting #folktaleweek drawings!

Today’s prompt was “bone”.

What will happen at our conclusion tomorrow for “blossom”? (I’m still figuring it out myself 😆 wish me luck)

#folktaleweek2024 #kidlit #kidlitart #illustration #sequentialart #folktaleweekbone
Wordless and borderless sequential drawing with dark color palette. A kid arrives carrying a glowing eyed skull on a stick at a fence made of bones with glowing skulls on the posts and one empty bone post. Next they remove the skull from the stick looking apprehensive. Then they place the skull on the empty bone post looking happier. Finally the other skulls nuzzle their returned friend as the kid looks on. Art by Clay Mil.
November 23, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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#folktaleweek2024

How is it #folktaleweek day 5 already??? Prompt: “depth”

Anyone have a guess yet for folktale inspiration? Think glowing skulls and chickens
💀 🔥 🐓

#folktaleweekdepth #kidlitart #sequentialart #illustration
An underground cross section drawing. A kid drops their glowing skull down a hole in the ground. It bounces further and further. They crawl through and find it and attach it to a stick. Then traverse a long tunnel climbing stalactites and sliding down an avalanche. The end of the tunnels has a stone staircase. Art by clay mil.
November 23, 2024 at 12:54 AM
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Phew! That’s day 4 of #folktaleweek2024 for the prompt “trail”!

Next up “depth”

#kidlitart #folktaleweek #folktaleweektrail #illustration
A kid apprehensively jogs along a trail of chicken tracks towards a dark nighttime woods. Their backpack contains a skull with glowing eyes. Art by Clay Mil Gray trees with mustard yellow leaves sway in a dark forest with a trail of chicken footprints winding through. Bottom right corner has a cross section of underground. Art by Clay Mil.
November 22, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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#folktaleweek2024 day 3! Today’s prompt is “blight” and the adventure continues!

#folktaleweekblight
#folktaleweek
#sequentialart #illustration #kidlitart
Sequential digital art with a colored pencil like texture and a dark color scheme. A kid wearing a backpack climbs a staircase in the dark on the left. Top right they are asleep in bed in their room. Their bed has a bunch of stuff packed under it including their backpack with a glowing skull peeking out. Mustard colored mushrooms begin to grow out from there down into the next frame which is the kid’s worried face completely surrounded now by mushrooms, with their green dino stuffie peeking out from under more mushrooms, looking concerned as well. Art by Clay Mil
November 21, 2024 at 12:28 AM
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Day 2 of #folktaleweek2024 is “gate”

#folktaleweekgate

I’m trying out not plotting anything and just seeing where the prompt takes me every day. See day 1, “mist” on my profile and follow along tomorrow!

Also check out everyone else’s #folktaleweek posts, it’s so cool to see the creativity!
It’s late at night and a kid sits against a closed picket fence gate holding up a skull with glowing eyes and an open brown backpack. They are surrounded by bushes with blowing leaves. In the background are houses, one house has a tiny lit window with a silhouette of a person. Art by Clay Mil.
November 19, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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I love seeing everyone’s work for #folktaleweek2024!

Loving the prompts so I had to jump on the graphic train, even though I already posted day 1. Hoping I can keep up with it this week 🤞

I can’t wait to see everyone else’s #folktaleweek posts and find new folks to follow!
A chalkboard style graphic for folktale week 2024. It reads I’m joining folktale week 2024 November 18-24 prompts mist, gate, blight, trail, depth, bone, blossom. Hashtag folktaleweek2024. The prompts are on signs on a signpost. The F and O in the title are a wood staff and lantern. There are fairytale objects scattered around including a shell, tooth, pin, pumpkin, mirror, and others. art by clay mil.
November 18, 2024 at 11:39 PM