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Catarina Oliveira ✦Illustration✦
@catoliveirastudio.bsky.social
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✦ I'm Cat ✦ she/her ✦ 43 ✦ neurodivergent
✦ Portuguese-Canadian Kid Lit Illustrator
✦ Rep'd by The T2 Agency
✦ 📍 in Portugal
✦ Book a Portfolio Review ⤵️
catarinaoliveirastudio.com
✦ instagram.com/catarinaoliveirastudio/

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Catarina Oliveira ✦Illustration✦ @catoliveirastudio.bsky.social · Feb 6
Hi! #kidlitartpostcard

I'm Cat, a Kid Lit Illustrator, available for new projects.

🎨 Portfolio catarinaoliveirastudio.com
💼 Agent @thet2agency.bsky.social

#kidlit #illustration #art #kidlitart
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Being AuDHD explains why I have so many sketches and so little finished work 😅
November 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Snow time in Canada ☃️❄️😊
no snow here in Portugal but lots of rain and wind -_-

Illustration for Chickadee Magazine 2023 @owlkids.bsky.social
#kidlitart

www.catarinaoliveirastudio.com/magazines
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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We've got a feed of our members!

bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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brianlarossa.com
Hey illustrators/agents!

I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS!

Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.

💙❤️ #artcommissions
November 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Happy Spooky November!

#kidlitart
A blind woman faces us; she is making a "shush" sign with one hand. She has long black hair covering one of her eyes, while the other eye is entirely white with no pupil. There's a crow on her shoulder and a little table with a calice, a snake and a skull in front of her. Coming out of the calice, there are ghosts with skull faces, swirling around the woman.
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Today's warm-up sketch, a Fairy ✨ based on #kidlitnestdtiys #kidlitnestdtiys13.
Thanks @kidlitnest.bsky.social for the challenge 🧚✨

#sketchbook #characterdesign #DTIYS #kidlitart
A little kid is balanced on one foot with arms stretched out. They are holding a wand with a dreamy look. They have blue hair, ponytails, a set of fairy wings and are dressed in yellow and orange PJs with purple socks.
November 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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kidlitnest.bsky.social
Happy November! We have a new #drawthisinyourstyle challenge!

Illustration by our nester @rekhasalin.bsky.social

Rules:
🧙‍♀️ NO AI or tracing!
🧙‍♀️ Ends 30th Nov 2025
🧙‍♀️ Use hashtags #kidlitnestdtiys and #kidlitnestdtiys13 so we can find your entries to share!
Don’t forget to have fun.
#kidlitart
November 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Happy Halloween! 🦇✨☺️🎃

#kidlit #kidlitart
Black & white illustration of a kid dressed as Frankstein, holding a pumpkin basket and looking at the reader. The background depicts a graveyard with crows, a full moon and some bats. There's a hand-lettering with Trick or Treat written in orange.
October 31, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Tomorrow!!! 👀🦇🔔🌙🍬🍭
October 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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D E R P Y !!! 💙💙💙

A sketch for Halloween 2025, that I won't finish in time 😮‍💨 Sharing it anyway ❤️

#sketch #fanart #HappyHalloween #KPopDemonHunters
Sketch of Derpy Tiger from K-pop Demon Hunters, as a kitten, coming out of a jack-o'-lantern. Sussie is on top of another jack-o'-lantern. There are two skulls, one of them with a lit candle. The poster has a blue background with a graphic frame in pinks, oranges and purples, and it says Trick or Treat.
October 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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It's almost candy time!
Drawing from 2022.
#kidlitart #Halloween
Kid in a Spider-Man costume holds a big orange lollipop. There are several candies, wrappers and a half-eaten chocolate bar spilling out from a pumpkin basket on the floor. Behind the kid sits a gray cat with a worried expression.
October 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Style is the thousands of decisions you make while drawing; it is uniquely you, even when you are copying a composition, a painting or a photo. You just have to draw a lot, to find the patterns in those tiny decisions.

#kidlitart
October 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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It's no secret I love shopping my portfolio and recycling work. So I'm adding colour to this one and making it a cover 🤔
I don't need a title, but how about "A Letter for Sidney"? "Letters from Charlie (dog)"?

😀

#coverart #MGcovers #kidlitart #bookcover #workinprogress
October 23, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Happy October #kidlitartpostcard 🎃
It's the season to solve mysteries and visit haunted houses 👻

I'm Cat and I draw PB, MG and covers! Spooky and non-spooky too 😁

#kidlitart #kidlit #bookcover #coverart #middlegrade
More at catarinaoliveirastudio.com
October 3, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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Want to learn about new books?
The Penguin Young Readers Spring 2026 Preview is out, and you can see "Yasha's Amazin' Bar Mitzvah" by Margaret Gurevich, at min 37'37'' 🎉👀

Cover illustrated by me 😁
Design by Mary Claire Cruz

www.penguinclassroom.com/blog/the-pen...

@penguinschoollib.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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boringstorybook.com
Searching #kidlitartpostcard on Flashes vs. Instagram. Instagram shows images from random months spanning years (after an unhelpful AI “summary”), while Flashes lets you sort illustrations in chronological order starting with the latest posts. Why isn’t publishing at large adopting this? #kidlit
Screen capture of #kidlitartpostcard results on Instagram shows a block of AI summary text followed by thumbnail images of children’s book art from October 2024, April 2025, and other random dates. Text reads: For you Accounts Reels Audio Tags Place • Meta Al The latest #kidlitartpostcard updates showcase the vibrant work of children's book illustrators from around the world. Every first Thursday of the month, these talented artists share their illustrations on social media using the hashtag #KidLitArtPostcard, organized by illustrator Gina Perry exclusively on Bluesky and Cara. Recent posts feature a delightful array of characters and scenes, including a friendly pangolin illustration by Brian Kirby for the September 2025 postcard! To stay updated on the latest #kidlitartpostcard posts, follow the hashtag on… INSTAGRAM to Algorithm chooses - not chronological Oct: 2024 Apr 2025 Mary 2025 Aug 2025 Screencap of Flashes app results for a search of #kidlitartpostcard shows rows of thumbnail images in chronological order starting 2 days ago and then showing the most recent posts in rows of three illustrations
October 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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So much cool art in one place 🤗✨😍❤️
shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · Oct 1
It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here!

Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only!

And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling.

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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debbieohi.com
I've been getting more DMs asking for advice about breaking into the #KidLit industry, critique requests, wanting to "pick my brain" about etc. To protect my own creative time (which is so short these days), I created this FAQ:

debbieohi.com/about/faq/

cont'd
Main FAQ – Debbie Ridpath Ohi
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October 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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I love spooky season, but I don't have time to draw atm, so here's an owl I drew for Folktale Week 2021. I heard FW2025 edition is coming!
I drew the prompts and wrote a poem to fit an 8-page zine, which I never released. But you can see some pages on www.catarinaoliveirastudio.com/blackandwhite
A barn owl is perched on a naked branch, looking at us with totally white/blank eyes. The background is filled with a full moon and some clouds. The illustration is in black and white.
October 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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This Season. www.patreon.com/posts/this-s...
On the TV: "Dumpster Fire!" [Pic of dumpster fire with a little happy face] Chicken behind couch: "I stopped watching that show. Too predictable." Chicken on the couch: "There's a new twist this season!" On the TV: "Dumpster Fire: Rolling Down A Hill!" [pic of dumpster fire rolling down a hill, looking alarmed]
October 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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kidlitart.bsky.social
October's topic for #KidLitArt chat will be - Spooky Chat!

Join your hosts on Oct 30, 9pm EST/6pm PST for an hour-long chat about spooky stuff!

Banner art by Rubin Pingk
Art of a black girl conjuring up magical cookies that are floating in the air. Text says Spooky Chat, #kidlitart. Art by Rubin Pingk
October 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Mine is super simple, but you can make it pretty, add images or buttons!
www.catarinaoliveirastudio.com/links

I really need to improve mine 😅
Shout-out to @byjessicaelena.bsky.social who has a beautiful Link page 😘
October 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Do you have a website? Then you don't need Linktree (or similar). Create a page to list your links and link that page instead! Put it on your Bluesky profile. Why? because you should advertise your own platform, not others (for free). And generate more visits to your website directly.

😁
October 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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It gives me immense joy when I discover an artist I admire has a Bluesky account I can follow. I’ve stopped following people on IG (won't see their posts anyway), and yes, I bookmark their websites, but this is my happy place to stalk people and their art :)

#kidlitart
October 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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For those who like to see the process, here is the first idea sketch and the sketch before the colour. #WIP
October 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM