The tour of sketchbooks 5 and 6
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Kidlit illustration of a frog singing and playing an accordion

Day 2 or #folktaleweek2025 with a song that echoes in the night.

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Folktale week artwork- house with owl, cat and toad, stars above them

Starting late due to travel, but here is my #folktaleweek2025 day 1: Night

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Slow sketching of the little things
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Illustration of a witch picking mushrooms

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!
I am an illustrator and author, I am especially interested in picture book projects. I am represented by Eve Adler at Red Fox Literary
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Kidlit illustration of children in Halloween costumes

Happy Halloween! 🎃

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Sketchbook page scribbles from life

Sketchbook page scribbles from life

Sketchbook page scribbles from life

Sketchbook page scribbles from life

Spontaneous visit to Fall Festival= lots of sketching. Not pretty drawings, but so fun!
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September happenings Art and life

New post, on what I was up to in September
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Kidlitart postcard image- mom and kids picking mushrooms in an autumn forest

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!
I’m Anya, illustrator and author of picture books.
Represented by Eve Adler at Red Fox Literary

#kidlitart #kidlitartist #choldrensbooksillustrator #greenrainart

Photo of Starry Night Lego set assembled

Finished my #lego Starry Night! It’s so pretty!

#afol #vangogh #greenrainart

Friday in the Gardens A couple of days ago, my dear friend and I visited the Denver Botanic Gardens. It is a lovely place to be in any season, but early fall is especially charming with every section of the garden having s...

A new post on my botanical garden visit open.substack.com/pub/greenrai...
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Summer 2025 and fall plans. First post here on Substack

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Kidlit postcard of a house on chicken legs walking through the forest

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!
My name is Anya, I am an illustrator and author from Colorado. I love working in mixed media, and I am interested in Picture Book projects.

Represented by Eve Adler at Red Fox Literary
#kidlitart #kidlitartist #childrensbookillustration #greenrainart

Photo of a sketchbook with embroidered “autumn” on it

Illustration of the word September

Children’s illustration of a red teapot house and a tiny acorn house

Dolled up my autumn #sketchbook and made the first drawing today.

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Lego mini figure of Vincent van Gogh

Finally got to work on my Starry Night #lego set. Daughter gave it to me months ago…I am very slow and my hands are clumsy, but I got through bags 1 and 2 today.

#greenrainart #afol #legoset

Kidlit illustration of Mary Poppins flying away

A final illustration for #bksmarypoppins
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“Mary Poppins was in the air now, floating away over the cherry trees and the roofs of the houses, holding tightly to the umbrella with one hand and to the carpet bag with the other.”

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Kidlit illustration for Mary Poppins, bears bringing food

Well, in my rush to finish this challenge, I didn’t read the prompt. So reduced the number of bears and diversified the species 😂
But it was fun to draw and I don’t feel like redoing it.
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If you see this, quote post your cat art 🐱 🎨

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I will try and catch up to the remaining prompts
Day 5 of #bkemarypoppins

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Day 4

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Storybook challenge day 2

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All the prompts can be found on IG, thanks to Monty Lee and other lovely hosts. I don’t post on IG anymore it will be here and on Cara.
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Kidlit illustration for Mary Poppins “Admiral Boom’s house was built exactly like a ship, it had ship’s funnels instead of chimneys and on the roof was a gilt weathercock shaped like a telescope”

Storybook challenge day 1.

All the prompts can be found on IG, thanks to Monty Lee and other lovely hosts. I don’t post on IG anymore so anything that I do will be here and on Cara.
#bksmarypoppins1
#bksmarypoppins #kidlitart #kidlitartist #greenrainart #kidlitiustration #kidlitillustrators

A kidlit illustration of Mary Poppins

Storybook Challenge this month is for Mary Poppins. All the prompts can be found on IG, thanks to Monty Lee and other lovely hosts. I don’t post on IG anymore so anything that I do will be here and on Cara.
#bksmarypoppins #kidlitart #kidlitartist #greenrainart #kidlitiustration #kidlitillustrators

Dang! Looks like this is the only starry art I've made in the past two years.

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QRP with your starry art 🌟🌟🌟

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Sketchbook illustration of a mouse standing among flowers

Drawing again, it’s been way too long…
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If you see this, QRP with your wings art! 🪽

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Kidlit sketch of ducks marching up the hill

Follow the leader up up up the hill
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Multi colored kidlit sketch of an elephant in the jungle

Playing with oil pastels and posca pens
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Bologna/Italy 2025 — Anya Kopotilova This year I have checked a couple of pretty important boxes in my illustrative career. One of those boxes was a trip to Bologna Children’s Book Fair. This is something I’ve wanted to do for a really l...

A very long post on my trip to Bologna :)

#kidlitart #kidlitartist #bolognachildrensbookfair #bcbf #greenrainart #greenrainart_travel

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