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Traci VW Creations
@tracivw.bsky.social
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Kidlit author & award winning illustrator, game artist, dog & nature lover. Dragon tamer. Also a picture taker & city gardener. She/her. Supporter of diversity!
Rep'd by Samantha Wekstein - @swekstein.bsky.social
www.tracivanwagoner.com
#PaintPlay for fun
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For those who celebrate Eat-Everything-You-Can Day, otherwise known as Thanksgiving, I hope you enjoy the day.

I plan on spending some time away from news & SM and appreciate what I have. I am thankful for so much and must remember those things as the world around us churns with chaos.

#Kidlitart
Colorful children's book style art of a Thanksgiving feast with a girl holding an overflowing plate with food piled higher than the line of people behind her with the words Happy Thanksgiving
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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I find a few moments of zen stacking rocks.
Photo of stacked rocks Photo of several towers of stacked rocks
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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This is not normal. He has got to go.
Resist!
Political artwork showing a large bully teal silhouette with a red tie leaning over a medium sized figure who is protecting a smaller figure, with NO over their heads
November 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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QRP with your flower art 🌸🌷🌺

#kidlitart #gardening #flowers #PBArt #Kidlitartist
A girl, her tan and white dog, and daddy walk through a wrought iron fence into a beautiful garden filled with pink flowers as big as your face, layers of green, trees, birds, a little blue and teal bird house,bees, and a dragon fly.
November 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Happy Rump -- er Hump Day!

#AnimalParadeWorld #HumpDayHumor #Elephant #Tshirt #giftideas #funny
Happy Rump Day! across the top of a green textured banner with art of a cute elephant but on the left and a heads and tails / front and back t-shirt with the elephant from the front with the word, Question... The back of the tshirt has the elephant from behind with the words, Does this BUTT Make My Tee Shirt Look BIG? Animal Parade World log and website: www.zazzle.com/store/AnimalParade
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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This is Ellie in her natural state...

You can find her and all her animal friends coming and going on all kinds of fun merch here: www.zazzle.com/store/animal...

#CuteAnimals #elephant #headsandtails #frontandback #AnimalParade #AnimalParadeWorld #kidlitart
Cute elephant from the front in a fun children's book style of art with a bright pink textured background and a wavy purple border. Cute elephant from the back in a fun children's book style of art with a bright pink textured background and a wavy purple border standing on spiky dull green grass.
November 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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My Animal Parade Elephant is joining the #CRAZIESDayparade 2025 hosted by @jonscrazyblues.bsky.social and lollipopcomics.bsky.social ! Ellie was the first to join my Animal Parade World. She's happy to be flying high with all these new friends today!

#kidlitart #PaintPlay #elephant #AnimalParade
Children's book illustration style of a cute elephant balloon flying high over the trees and buildings in a bright blue sky
November 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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I forgot to share this here. If you missed my #PaintPlay for #SCBWIArtober2025, you can see them in this post. I didn't do all the prompts, but I was able to fit in some & had fun playing w/new brushes in Procreate.
www.tracivanwagoner.com/post/scbwi-a...
#KidLitArt #illustration #kidlitartist #art
a page with a children's book art of two kids gardening with SCBWI Artober2025 - KidLitArt blog post title https://www.tracivanwagoner.com/post/scbwi-artober-kidlitart
November 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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If you see this, post your bird art 🐦

#birds #mourningdoves #natureinthecity
Art of two mourning doves cuddling on a branch with city buildings bhind them and a blue sky with puffy splattery white clouds
November 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Happy Friday!
Happy Friday in brown across the top of children's book style art of a happy blonde haired girl in green and purple playing in fall leaves. On the purple dress is a cute tabby cat
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day! I'm an author/illustrator always looking for new projects from young to young adult. I would love to create some covers. I'm also open for PB work.

see more: www.tracivanwagoner.com
rep'd by: @swekstein.bsky.social

#kidlitart #illustratorauthor #dragon #illustrator
Fantasy art of a maroon and pink dragon standing nest to a woman in a purple robe and hat on the right. Swirly mist floats past them and swirls in front of a large arching window and a pedestal with a candle. Outside the window is a full moon rising over a castle behind a lake.
November 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Yes! Riding a blue wave! The people are voting to save America, our freedoms and our rights!
Illustration of a woman and her cat surfing a big blue wave
November 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Trick
or
Treat
👻

#kidlitart #Halloween #costume
Children's book art of Halloween night with a kid in a ghost costume walking along a sidewalk next to a fence with a jack-o-lantern, fall leaves and a crescent moon in the background Children's book art of Halloween night with a kid in a ghost costume walking way from the viewer a sidewalk next to a fence with a jack-o-lantern, fall leaves and a crescent moon in the background. The ghost costume has been tucked into his pants to show his backside
October 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Any day you can have pie is a good day. This is my last piece for #SCBWIArtober2025 w/the prompt #pie. I've had a lot of fun exploring and playing with the new Procreate brushes.

Happy Halloween! Next, turn those pumpkins into pies & hope a dragon doesn't steal them.

#kidlitart #PaintPlay #dragon
Children's book art art two kids hiding behind the bushes outside the windows watching a dragon sniff a pie in the window cooling.
October 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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A reminder...
Vote
Like your life depends on it.
Because it does.
Vote blue across the board,
even if you're not blue.
We need to restore our country, our democracy. We need to stand up, make our voices heard, fight for our rights, we must stop the dictator. This is how we do it, as a united people.
Art of a woman in blue waves with a life preserver being pulled to land by a bunch of people in front of a voting booth with the words VOTE like your life depends on it!
October 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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My girls helped me find some balance in nature this weekend.

#NatureintheCity #OpenGatePolicy #dogsofbluesky #findingbalance #selfcare
Photo of two tan dogs on leads in front of a curving path that winds around a pond in a beautiful community garden Photo of two tan dogs in with kerchiefs sniffing pretty pink flowers glowing in the sun in a beautiful community garden
October 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Here's the second interpretation of #mask for #scbwiartober2025, painted with fun new brushes in Procreate by Kyle Webster.

#PaintPlay #kidlitart #characters #illustration #masquerade #couple #scbwiillustrator #kidlit #art
Painterly art of a couple dancing together both wearing black masks like at a masquerade party. The woman is wearing a yellow dress with a flowing wide skirt and the man is sport a dashing black tuxedo which almost blends into the maroon splattery background with spotlights in swirly and dot patterns.
October 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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I'm getting in a few new pieces for #scbwiartober2025 here and there and I'm having a ton of fun playing with new Procreate brushes. Here's one interpretation of #mask, I'll share another style in a bit.

#PaintPlay #kidlitart #characters #illustration #masquerade #couple #scbwiillustrator #kidlit
A humorous children's book style illustration of man and a woman dancing together at a masquerade ball holding masks up to their faces. They are both wearing shades of pink against a purple background with silhouettes of dancers behind them.
October 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Resist! No Kings!

Millions have made a stand! Peaceful and powerful…

We will not go quietly into the night…

#NoKings #Resist
Humorous art of a frog holding a candle standing against the dark - curving splatter black and blue paint symbolizing the threat to America, to our rights, to freedom, to democracy. Thank you Portland for the inspiration!!
October 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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No Kings in NYC was huge!!

#NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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An artist at work carving her new friend, an ice dragon.

And me painting with new brushes in Procreate creating art that makes my heart sing.

#SCBWIArtober2025 #Carve #kidlitart #PaintPlay #dragon #artober #drawingchallenge #artist #art #Procreate
Children's book style art with a blue splatter and drip background and a girl in purple overalls and goggles carving with hammer and chisel an ice dragon.
October 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Open your eyes...

#Resist #NoKing
Abstract style art with a silhouette of a large figure wearing a red tie and blond wig about to step off the edge of a cliff with a line of silhouette figures following him with eyes close, the fourth figure on the left edge has paused and opened their eyes.
October 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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#Resist
Do NOT back down. He must be stopped!
Art showing a silhouette figure standing up for a littler figure against a big bully in a red tie
October 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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I had fun with this one! #Candle for #SCBWIArtober2025. There are some fun new brushes to play with in Procreate.

Wh-wha-what is that standing there in the d-d-dark?

#kidlitart #illustration #kidlitartist #childrensbookillustration #drawingchallenge #PaintPlay
In a children's book style of art three kids and a little brown dog stand together in a hallway with only a candle against the dark. Something is standing the dark -- something big. All we can see are long legs and big claws. Eek!
October 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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I'm doing some catch up with #SCBWIArtober2025 with the prompt #Phantom.
This is perhaps not my favorite piece I've done, but I did have fun playing with new brushes in Procreate and interpreting phantom.

#kidlitart #kids #illustration #kidlitartist #illustrator #Halloween #spooky
Children's book style art with three kids running from a phantom whipped up out of the fog with a row of brownstones behind them with jack-o-lanterns on a stoop.
October 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM