I did this quickly for the #ABLArtFest from @andreabrownlit.bsky.social #Trunkortreat 👻 #happyHalloween! 🎃 thanks for the challenge!

Kid friendly illustration of a ghost handing a marigold to an enchanted spider in the midst of a graveyard. Signed Santi 2025

Here's my entry for the third prompt for the #ABLArtFest, Ghostly Encounters. I wanted to wink at Día de los Muertos, and that's why the ghost has a marigold in its ghostly grasp. Thank you to @andreabrownlit.bsky.social for the spark of the ideas! #kidlitart

Critter Kiddos have sleepover fun in the vacant attic. Is that King Reginald Raccoon's ghost billowing into the sphere?
#ABLArtfest The Crystal Ball Reveals @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
#scbwiartober25 Attic, Maze, Billow, Sleepover, Bones
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#kidlit #scbwi #handdrawn #inkwatercolor

A black cat is around a crystal ball, looking at it. Inside, we can see a young witch flying on her broom while a couple of birds fly further away. Three fallen leaves with autumn colors lie in the floor in front of the cat. The illustration is signed Santi 2025

A little late, but here's my second illustration created for the #ABLArtFest, "The Crystal Ball reveals..." @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

We've loved all the art you created this month for #ABLArtFest! Hope you've been receiving so much love during Bitty and Bub, Best Buds's release week!

5 Monstrous Melodies A young monster plays guitar atop a trunk. Another monster, inside the trunk, snaps its fingers in time to the music. A cat dances and a ghost is escaping the trunk. Halloween playlist: Spooky Scary Skeletons Monster Mash Thriller I Want Candy Ghostbusters

TRUNK OR TREAT

Week 5 (and the last) of #ablartfest sponsored by @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

Frankie treats you to a Halloween playlist. 🎼🎶🍫🍬🍭

Thank you to everyone who created beautiful, hilarious, creative art this month, whether for #ABLArtFest or not. In difficult times as these, often it's the arts that keep our souls hopeful and our hearts connected. And that is no small thing.

Did you know that this is the last week of #ABLArtFest??

While we're not really sure if this month felt like the longest or shortest ever 💀 we do know that we're eager to see your art!

This week's prompt: TRUNK OR TREAT! 🍬

Make sure to tag us @andreabrownlit.bsky.social and use #ABLArtFest! 🎨

Super late to the party, but here’s my entry for the #ABLArtFest week 4 with the prompt “chats by the cauldron” 🧙‍♀️🎃Happy witches season everyone, this #artchallange by @andreabrownlit was so fun! #watercolorsillustration #kidlitillustration #witches #halloweenartchallenge

Here's my 4th prompt for @andreabrownlit.bsky.social 's #ablartfest : Chats by the Cauldron. A witchy slumber party was the first thing to pop into my head when I saw the prompt.

#kidlitart

Cut paper art with pressed autumn leaves that form a forest around a campfire. There’s a large cauldron on the campfire and fairies around it looking cozy and chatting.

#ChatsByTheCauldron - This is my fourth prompt for #ABLArtFest… and maybe my favorite?! I really love how the leaves turned out for the background and these characters are some of my favorites. I wonder what they’re all chatting about? 🍂🍁
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#picturebook #kidlit #kidlitart @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

Ghostly Encounters . . .when you least expect it. And at the #ABLArtFest with @andreabrownlit 

#ABLArtFest kidlitart #kidlitartist #kidlitgn #picturebookart #childrensbookillustration #autumn #trickortreat #halloween #toothbrush

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Dinah Duck prepares a Fall Harvest Feast while two young bear cubs play on the kitchen floor.
#ABLArtfest prompt Fall Festivities @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
#scbwiartober25 prompts Harvest, Calico, Mushroom, Tangle, Leaves, Strange, Pie @scbwi.bsky.social
#kidlit #scbwi #handdrawn #inkwatercolor

5 SPOOKTACULAR SNACKS - a witch making a bright green concoction in her cauldron as her cat waits to taste it. Five splotches of the green goo contain snack mix ideas: 1. Reese’s Pieces + M&Ms 2. Hot Tamales candy + Popcorn + Peanuts 3. M&Ms + Salted Peanuts + Candy Corn 4. Pretzels + Peanut Butter Cups 5. Candy Corn + Jelly Beans

CHATS BY THE CAULDRON

It’s week 4 of #ablartfest sponsored by @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

#ablartfest #ABLArtfest2025

Two raccoon kits know the ghost story of King Reginald Raccoon. So they decide to conjure him in a field under the full moon. What they didn't realize is that he is already haunting the halls of the mansion on the hill! #ABLArtfest Chats by the Cauldron hosted by @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
#kidlit

I combined "ghostly encounters" from @andreabrownlit.bsky.social 's #ablartfest , "Haunted Mansion Adventure" from my promplist #kidlitartoween25 and "perspective" from @scbwi.bsky.social 's #scbwiartober2025 .

#kidlitart

A little late to the party, but here's my illustration for the #ABLArtFest prompt "Ghostly Encounters"

#kidlitart #kidlitartist #kidlitillustration #halloweenart #ghosts

A fox is waving his hands around a waterballoon (pretending to be a crystal ball) and a little mouse is holding a flashlight downbelow in the corner. Starry curtains above them

an #ablartfest illustration for the prompt “the crystal ball reveals…”

wanted to show these two buddies again - and thought what would kids have as a crystal ball? A waterballoon!

peep little mouse friend holding the flashlight down in the corner

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#kidlit #kidlitart

Can you believe we’re in week 4 of #ABLArtFest!? Especially in the midst of lots of hard things, we’ve been LOVING everyone’s art this month. 🎨✍️

Here’s this week’s prompt:

🧙🏽‍♀️CHATS BY THE CAULDRON

Make sure to tag us
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and use #ABLArtFest!

Nature art depicting two witches in yellow dresses and silver hats standing behind a cauldron filled with a bubbling green substance. Each witch is holding a broom and smiling. The art was created on a stump on the woods using natural materials found loose on the trail.

Chats by the Cauldron #ABLArtFest
@andreabrownlit.bsky.social

👻👻 Ghostly Encounters for the #ABLArtFest for @andreabrownlit.bsky.social! 👻

{Somehow missed all the posts about this so just joining in now}

#kidlitart #kidlitartist #kidlitillustration #halloweenart #ghosts

Been super busy polishing up a dummy + full illustrations the past couple weeks, so I’ve barely had time to look at all this month’s fabulous prompts! Sharing an oldie but goodie for #ABLArtfest - this week’s prompt is “Ghostly Encounters.”
Happy weekend, friends! 🧡🖤
#ablartfest2025 #kidlitart

A fox and mouse duo have different fall activities. The top is painting pumpkins, a fox is painting a pumpkin and a mouse has put a pumpkin on his head. The middle illustration, the fox is poking out of a large leaf pile throwing leaves, and mouse is about to jump in. The bottom illustration shows the two friends trick or treating, fox is dressed up as an astronaut and mouse is an alien

A close up of the painting pumpkins illustration

A close up of the leaf jumping illustration

A close up of the costumes & trick or treating illustration

my piece for the first prompt “fall festivities” from #ablartfest this month! 🍂

i couldn’t choose which fall activity i loved best so i chose a few to illustrate with these two buddies!

#kidlit #kidlitart

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@analiacabello.bsky.social

happy fall y’all!

Oh no! There is a trick sitting in front of Rosie & Sara's treat!

#ABLArtfest prompt Ghostly Encounters (2nd entry) hosted by
@andreabrownlit.bsky.social

#inkandwatercolor #handdrawn #kidlit #kidlitartist #authorillustrator #scbwi #picturebookartist #picturebookauthor #animalalliteration

A large board cut out of a scrawled and scribbled ghost. There are 2 kids running from the board cut out with scared looks on their faces. A third child laughing from behind the board cutout of the ghost, implying that they tricked the other 2.

Week 3: Ghostly Encounters 👻👻👻👻

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@litagentsaritza.bsky.social

#ABLArtfest #kidlit #kidlitart #illustrator #kidlitartist

A cut paper image. Two ghosts in the foreground hiding in front of an old dilapidated barn are watching an alien beam down from a flying saucer. There are two more aliens in the flying saucer. The background is a starry sky.

3rd piece done for #ABLArtFest - this one is for #GhostlyEncounters! Apparently that doesn’t make everyone think of alien encounters… but that’s where my brain went! 👻 👽 🎃
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@andreabrownlit.bsky.social #kidlit #illustration #cutpaper #picturebookillustration #ghost #alien #oldbarn

Ghost, ghost cat, ghost bat. 5 Frightful Funnies 1. Who did the goblin dance with at the Halloween Party? His ghoul-friend, 2. What did the ghost say when his sheet ripped? BOO-hoo!, 3. What kind of dog does a vampire have? A bloodhound, 4. Why was the little monster crying? He couldn’t find his mummy, 5. What kind of medicine do you give a vampire? A coffin-drop

GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS

It’s week 3 of #ablartfest sponsored by @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

#ablartfest #ABLArtfest2025

Garrett Goat grows green beans and gasps at the sight of ghosts in the geraniums.

#ABLArtfest prompt Ghostly Encounters hosted by @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

#inkandwatercolor #handdrawn #kidlit #kidlitartist #authorillustrator #scbwi #picturebookartist #picturebookauthor #animalalliteration

We're in week 3 of #ABLArtFest! 🎨✍️

The prompt for the week of October 12:

👻 GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS 👻

Make sure to tag us
@andreabrownlit.bsky.social
and use #ABLArtFest!

Also, friendly reminder it's never too late to use these prompts. The only requirements are to make art and have fun. 😊

I combined this month's @scbwi.bsky.social prompt "Reptile" with the @andreabrownlit.bsky.social 's #ablartfest prompt "The Crystal Ball Reveals...". It's been awhile since I've done papercut art so I decided to do it for this one.

#scbwidrawthis #scbwiillustrators #scbwi #kidlitart