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Kelsey Buzzell
@kelseybuzzell.bsky.social
Kidlit Illustrator & Interior Designer, mom of 2 bugs 🐛🐞, magic maker 🔮, ♥️ the forest🌲and the sea 🌊, vintage hunter, 🥑 eater | 🏡OR | Rep: Nicole Tugeau

Next 📖: Families of a Feather, Little Big Foot/Sasquatch out March 2025

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Crisp mornings. 🤍🤍

I know fall doesn’t “officially” start (in the N hemisphere) for another week, but as the acorns continue to tumble down our roof, I can’t help but declare it’s already here! 🤗 Getting all my sweaters and beanies out.

How are you preparing?

#fall #illustration #kidlitart
September 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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It’s #Kidlitartpostcard day today.
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I am currently available for exciting new projects, get in touch with myself or my lovely agent Becca if you have something in mind. You can see more of my pictures here:
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www.rosha.ie
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#kidlitpostcard #picturebookportfolio #illustration
September 4, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Happy beginning of September and #kidlitartpostcard day! I’ve been working hard on developing my style & think I finally have it.
You can see new work on my site www.pippinmathur.com I would love to illustrate more pbs, chapter books and early gns! Repped by Jennifer Unter. #kidlitpostcard #kidlit
September 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Happy #kidlitartpostcard day. My name is Mark Hoffmann and I’m a kidlit author/illustrator. I am rep’d by Jenn Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social with @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

#kidlitpostcard #kidlitartpostcardday
#kidlit #kidlitart #illustration #cuteanimals #animalillustration
September 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
September 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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When a president decides to disregard the will of the American people, you’re right, that’s the mark of authoritarian rule. The White House has notified Congress that it plans to cancel $4.9 billion in foreign aid funding that lawmakers had already approved, doing so without their consent.
August 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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It's Friday! Your assignment this weekend: Hang out in a bookstore or library. Spend time with the books. Chat with the booksellers & librarians. Enjoy the community. This is activism. Your presence energizes these spaces & these spaces need energy. Have a great weekend!
August 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it.

ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures.

Losers with power become the most dangerous kind.

(c/o Caroline Codsi)
August 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
What’s eating your strawberries? It might not be what you think…. Garden hobgoblins, anyone?

#illustration #kidlit #childrensbookillustration #procreateart #procreate #kidlitart #childrensbooks #childrensbookart #illustrationforkids #picturebooks
August 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
An example of my second round of paneling as I work on my graphic novel pitch. Red pencils for panels and some art “gestures”, blue notes are art guides, and black is script/dialogue. I sketch alternative panel layouts to the side and make general notes in the margins. #graphicnovel
August 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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If you cannot convince people that the government kidnapping people off the streets and conducting a takeover of the capital is full fledged fascism, they are never going to be convinced. Not until the boots are kicking down their front door.
August 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Picked up The Anxious Generation and it’s quite illuminating for our relationship with technology and how it’s shaping childhood (in detrimental ways). Highly recommend and I’m only just beginning it! #anxiousgeneration #technology
August 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I learned that Tove Jansson was born today, August 9th, in 1914 - So here’s some Moomin fan art to celebrate!

#illustration #kidlit #childrensbookillustration #kidlitart #childrensbooks #illustrationforkids #picturebooks #moomin #tovejansson
August 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Another day, another old film and another gorgeous dress. Deborah Kerr in An Affair to Remember. #vintagefashion
August 9, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Yesterday was my birthday and @stavesacre.bsky.social got me the loveliest flowers! I’ve underestimated how happy fresh flowers make me. Instant space brightener. 🤍
August 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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I don’t know man, the utter abandonment of environmentalism we’ve been careening towards in the 2020s is kind of…I don’t know. Anyone who thinks the planet can take a tripling of plastics production in the next thirty years is either delusional or hates the world and I’m really struggling with that.
August 7, 2025 at 3:42 AM
This weekend I spent about an hour sorting through our Legos (kids had out) and built Dracula a party house. So fun to pause and be a kid again. My daughter kept giving #Dracula a cupcake #Lego we had (not pictured) 😂
August 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Sharing my favorite #procreate brushes on my blog: thepolychromaticpage.substack.com/p/my-go-to-p...
My Go To Procreate Brushes
For now at least
thepolychromaticpage.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Good morning 🌞
August 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
A reminder to appreciate small beautiful things. #flower #nature
August 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Publishers need us more than we need them. Without us, they would be able to do nothing. The only way to survive what is coming is to build it back sustainably, together, and without ego.
August 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Been studying graphic novel page and frame progressions by copying the variations down for some books I own. I love how different they have been so far, yet they all get us to understand a story. #graphicnovel #illustrator
August 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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New pendants are up!
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August 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM