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Julian Plum
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Picture book illustrator working in gouache! he/they 🏳️‍⚧️ 🖌️ 🌿

WHOSE TREE IS THIS (Singer, Lerner, S '26)
THE HOUSE THAT FEELS LIKE ME (Allen, LBYR, F '26)
Rep'd by Naomi Davis @ BookEnds Literary

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Hello #kidlitartpostcard day! I'm Julian, a queer 🏳️‍⚧️ picture book illustrator working in gouache. I've climbed out of the final art mines to wave around a little flag that says "let me illustrate a book about frogs or bugs!"

🌌 julianplum.com
💌 [email protected]

#kidlitart #picturebooks #art 🐸 🌿
Gouache painting in lush dark green and blue featuring a cross-section of a pond at night. A green harlequin-patterned frog with a hint of tadpole tail climbs half out of the water into the cattails, looking at the stars. In the darkness lurks a taloned heron foot. The water is full of tadpoles, pond weed, insect larvae, and frog eggs. A single bright mayfly hangs on a cattail leaf above the frog's head. Text below reads JULIAN PLUM | Represented by Naomi Davis at BookEnds Literary, julianplum.com
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joshtpm.bsky.social
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
joshtpm.bsky.social Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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mattiekaiser.bsky.social
All hands on deck for calling the Democrats who are looking ready to capitulate.

📃 SCRIPT:
"I’m calling to ask that [REP/SEN NAME] hold firm against any blank check budget deal that does not extend the ACA tax credits, reverse federal worker layoffs, and block illegal budget cuts. (1/2)
joshtpm.bsky.social Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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makin my way downtown
November 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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🌸🌱🐝🌿🍂🪻 // sunlight scavengers // spread from Gardening for Biodiversity by the Wild Seed Project // gouache on hot press paper

realized I hadn't posted the art from one of the coolest projects I've ever done, so I'm starting that today! plant facts in the comments :)

#art #botanicalillustration
Gouache painting of a sunlit forest floor covered in a verdant mass of early-spring flowering plants: virginia bluebells spill over onto a groundcover carpet of tiny pink spring beauty flowers. Large-flowered bellwort grows in the shade of a lacy New York fern. Yellow bell-shaped leatherwood flowers dangle over bright red eastern newts in the red eft stage, and puffy clusters of white baneberry flowers grow toward the early leaves of a buckeye tree. Spring beauty miner bees gather pink pollen in the foreground.
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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🌸🌱🐝🌿🍂🪻 // sunlight scavengers // spread from Gardening for Biodiversity by the Wild Seed Project // gouache on hot press paper

realized I hadn't posted the art from one of the coolest projects I've ever done, so I'm starting that today! plant facts in the comments :)

#art #botanicalillustration
Gouache painting of a sunlit forest floor covered in a verdant mass of early-spring flowering plants: virginia bluebells spill over onto a groundcover carpet of tiny pink spring beauty flowers. Large-flowered bellwort grows in the shade of a lacy New York fern. Yellow bell-shaped leatherwood flowers dangle over bright red eastern newts in the red eft stage, and puffy clusters of white baneberry flowers grow toward the early leaves of a buckeye tree. Spring beauty miner bees gather pink pollen in the foreground.
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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hi! tomorrow is my birthday.

i’ve written a children’s book about how land is indigenous land and a young readers book about the history of boarding schools.

now i’m writing a YA indigenous solarpunk novel about 100 years after #landback

for my birthday, i’m asking for help doing that.
November 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Little Sunfish
Illustration of a mermaid lifting her drapey hair to reveal a glowing tiny sunfish. She is wrapped with pearls and shells and has turquoise shells, and has a ponytail updo. Other bright sunfish are migrating around. Drawn by gdbeeart/prinnay in Nov 2025
November 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Hello #kidlitartpostcard day! I'm Julian, a queer 🏳️‍⚧️ picture book illustrator working in gouache. I've climbed out of the final art mines to wave around a little flag that says "let me illustrate a book about frogs or bugs!"

🌌 julianplum.com
💌 [email protected]

#kidlitart #picturebooks #art 🐸 🌿
Gouache painting in lush dark green and blue featuring a cross-section of a pond at night. A green harlequin-patterned frog with a hint of tadpole tail climbs half out of the water into the cattails, looking at the stars. In the darkness lurks a taloned heron foot. The water is full of tadpoles, pond weed, insect larvae, and frog eggs. A single bright mayfly hangs on a cattail leaf above the frog's head. Text below reads JULIAN PLUM | Represented by Naomi Davis at BookEnds Literary, julianplum.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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hello #kidlitartpostcard day!

I’m Madly Kim and I’d love to illustrate your next project. I have a particular fondness for history, cozy magic, and plucky protagonists.

I work primarily in watercolor and am represented by @charlottewenger.com

View my portfolio at madlykim.com
madly kim kid lit postcard. a young page is trying to pull an arrow out of a target stump. painted with watercolor and featuring colored pencil.
November 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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It’s #kidlitartpostcard day!

My name is Yara, I’m a mixed-media illustrator looking for new exciting projects! I love using soft colors, textures and playing with shapes in my works.

I’m proudly represented by Jem Chambers-Black at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
👁️👁️ odnatamyara.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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ginaperry.bsky.social
Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day! I’m Gina Perry, a New England children’s book author and illustrator. I’m open for new projects mid-2026. Rep’d by Sean McCarthy. More at: www.ginaperry.com #kidlitart #illustration
Spot illustration of a frog on roller skates, listening to music on headphones, wearing a cape. The cape is flying out behind him and it’s decorated with drawing and writing. Leaves swirl around. Art by Gina Perry. Text reads www.ginaperry.com Rep’d by Sean McCarthy
November 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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charlenedraws.bsky.social
Hello #kidlitartpostcard ! I am Charlene Chua & I illustrate books for kids.

🌟Open for 2026 book projects! 🌟

Portfolio - charlenechua.com
Rep' by Tracy Marchini Literary

#kidlitart #kidlit #illustration #PB #GN #starwars
Art showing a couple of Jedi kids holding lightsabers. One is a blue twi'lek girl and the other is a human boy. In the background are Chewbacca, C-3PO and R2D2 looking on with comic concern. Various spaceships from Star Wars are in the sky above.
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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cindylozito.com
Of all the trees that transform and autumn, ginkgos are my favorite! Happy #kidlitartpostcard day 🍂 I am open to illustrating kids books and black-and-white interiors.
cindylozito.com
[email protected]
Happily rep’d by @litagentsaritza.bsky.social @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
A scene of a young girl in a butterfly costume dressing up her toy rhino in a set of butterfly wings beneath a ginkgo tree losing its leaves in the wind
November 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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victoriamaderna.com
It's #KidLitArtPostcard day! A bit under the weather so some recycling this time, but with good timing as I've harvested my first homegrown butternuts recently 😅

I'm Victoria, Argentinian illustrator living in France. Looking for work & representation!

victoriamaderna.com
✉️ [email protected]
Painting of a wood mouse pollinating a squash flower with a brush, a butternut house in the background. Text reads: Victoria Maderna - hi@victoriamaderna.com - victoriamaderna.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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denisegallagher.bsky.social
It's KidLit Illustrator Postcard day!

I'm a published author and illustrator with some fun stuff in the works!

I love whimsy and magic and folklore and unusual animals

My agent is Kristen Terrette with Martin Literary Management and you can see more at denisegallagher.com

#kidlitartpostcard
November 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Adria - a queer, trans author/illustrator of books for kids! I’m interested in BB, PB, and CB.

I’m repped by @litagentsaritza.bsky.social and @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

#kiltart #cutpaper #autumnleaves
Kidlit art postcard in cut paper and dried fall leaves. Fairies grouped around a cauldron on a fall day.
November 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Hey! It's #KidLitArtPostcard day. I'm an author/illustrator of books for kids. I try to work texture and color into everything I do. I love manuscripts that are quirky, funny, and have a load of heart. I'm rep'd by @jenrofe.bsky.social of @andreabrownlit.bsky.social.

✨ www.twofishillustration.com
A girl in black and white climbs a ladder and uses a bullhorn to make a creative proclamation. Lots of colored items and movement are coming out of the bullhorn.
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Hello #kidlitartpostcard day! I'm Julian, a queer 🏳️‍⚧️ picture book illustrator working in gouache. I've climbed out of the final art mines to wave around a little flag that says "let me illustrate a book about frogs or bugs!"

🌌 julianplum.com
💌 [email protected]

#kidlitart #picturebooks #art 🐸 🌿
Gouache painting in lush dark green and blue featuring a cross-section of a pond at night. A green harlequin-patterned frog with a hint of tadpole tail climbs half out of the water into the cattails, looking at the stars. In the darkness lurks a taloned heron foot. The water is full of tadpoles, pond weed, insect larvae, and frog eggs. A single bright mayfly hangs on a cattail leaf above the frog's head. Text below reads JULIAN PLUM | Represented by Naomi Davis at BookEnds Literary, julianplum.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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gordywright.bsky.social
Hello #KidLitArtPostcard! I'm Gordy, a Scotland based illustrator painting my illustrations in gouache, acrylic and inks 🎨

Happy to share this artwork from a new book I have coming out next year - 𝐼𝑓 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑊𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑐𝑒𝑎𝑛

🌐 gordywright.com

#childrensbooks #kidlitart #illustration
Deep sea submarine diving through the epipelagic zone or sunlight zone. There are seals, turtles, dophins, a diving gannet, a ray and lots of fish.
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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😭 turns out the whole "you get sick the moment you finish a deadline" thing is both a real phenomenon and a constant in my life.
November 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Local news story on why MotE/ PRI is special:
$̳1̳ ̳m̳i̳l̳l̳i̳o̳n̳ left to raise before the end of 2025 to save the Museum of the Earth at the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, NY.

#SavePRI 🧪⚒️ #museums #dinosaurs #Mastodon #Ithaca
#fingerlakes

www.wbng.com/2025/10/27/m...
Museum of Earth could be met with possible foreclosure
The PRI has until Dec. 31, 2025 to raise $1 million or the only collections based national history museum between New York City and Buffalo will be forced into foreclosure.
www.wbng.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Something only mildly spooky for your Halloween 🎃

#kidlitart
#illustration
#watercolor
#middlegradeart
black and white watercolor illustration of a well-dressed frog man holding a lantern amid foilage
October 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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theferocity.bsky.social
I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.
October 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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hello the fall sticker for Patreon is live and if you'd like it you can get it!! This lil guy glows in the dark AND brings you a little luck while they do it. stick one on your water bottle to lightly unsettle your enemies!

get them here --> patreon.com/plumorchard

gouache on hot press paper
Gouache painting of a brown-and-honey jackalope on a dark blue background. The jackalope's antlers are a glowing yellow and are draped in stars. There are stars in its one showing eye.
October 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM