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Blue Jaryn
@bluejaryn.bsky.social
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Author of Payden's Pronoun Party ('22). Illustrator of As Bright as a Rainbow ('24). He/they. 🚫GenAI.
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#Gaza Aid now.
Famine is looming in Gaza. Children and families are starving while the food they need is sitting at the border.
May 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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There's beauty still in the world.
Photo of a majestic diverse cloudy sky over a suburban street.
April 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Angy capy.

If you ever anger a capybara, you know you're in trouble.

#art #illustration #kidlitart
Pencil sketch of a baby capybara with their front legs up on a log and looking angry. A speech bubble says 'He said WHAT?!'
March 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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QRP with something watery💧

#kidlitart #artshare #illustration
Watercolour illustration of the earth with a wreath of leafy plants.
March 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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I'm slowly getting more confident with painting more complex backgrounds! I worked hard on this one as a portfolio piece.

#kidlitart #watercolour #illustration
Watercolour illustration of an elf child character sitting on a stone bridge over a pond in a tranquil forest setting. There's a bird on a branch, butterflies and a frog in the pond.
February 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Who else likes to see illustration processes from rough sketch to final painting?? I wish more artists would show these.

Here is my process for the first spread from As Bright as a Rainbow (written by Romy Ash).

🌈📚 #kidlit #kidlitart
Very rough pencil sketch of three kids and a dog in a backyard gardening. One is holding a running hose and the dog has the end of the hose, spraying water. Another is holding a chicken on their head. The third is watering plants with a can. Very rough pencil sketch of three kids and a dog in a backyard gardening, slight changes from the first. The kid holding a chicken has the chicken on their lap. There are sunflowers in the garden beds. A more refined pencil drawing from the original sketch. The final watercolour painting of the same backyard gardening scene.
February 16, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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QRP with your wings art! 🪶
Watercolour illustration of a fantasy flying bird with rainbow coloured wings. The bird has a silver crest, long neck ruffle feathers and long blue tail.
February 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Been a while since I've posted about my books...so here is a post about my books! Both are about celebrating gender diversity.

#kidlit #kidlitart #lgbtiq+ #transgender #nonbinary
Two picturebook covers next to the word Pride with a rainbow coloured background. One is Payden's Pronoun Party by Blue Jaryn and Xochitl Cornejo and the other is As Bright As a Rainbow by Romy Ash and Blue Jaryn.
February 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Just a little rough sketch.

#kidlitart
Watercolour and ink sketch of Frodo and Bilbo's hobbit house in Lord of the Rings.
February 5, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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If you see this, quote with your dark/night art!

#kidlitart #artshare
Watercolour illustration of a robed elf child holding a glowing gold crystal up to a gold elk. They are in a forest at night.
February 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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I'm always like a little kid with being awed at thunderstorms.
February 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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If you see this, post a bird!

#kidlitart
A fantastical bird watercolour illustration with rainbow wings and blue body.
July 5, 2024 at 8:46 AM
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To see pride month out, here's a tiny boost for my books! If you feel like boosting these further that's always much appreciated.

#kidlit #kidlitart
Two picturebook covers next to the word Pride with a rainbow coloured background. One is Payden's Pronoun Party by Blue Jaryn and Xochitl Cornejo and the other is As Bright As a Rainbow by Romy Ash and Blue Jaryn.
June 29, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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If you see this, quote reply with something summery from your portfolio! ☀️

#KidLitArt #art 🎨

(Posting this even though it's the dead of winter where I live)
A smiling toddler wearing a yellow seahorse shaped towel, flamingo shaped floaty and carrying a ball and bucket with a small dog nearby holding a spade in their mouth.
June 22, 2024 at 1:01 AM
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🚨As Bright As a Rainbow is out now!🚨

Written by Romy Ash, illustrated by me and published by HarperCollins, this book shows that there is no right way to be any gender. There are so many ways to be a girl, a boy, both - or neither. #kidlit #kidlitart 🌈📚
Cover image of As Bright As a Rainbow: a book about gender and being yourself, with bright multicoloured text, and two child characters and a dog positioned with the letters. One is posing and another is on a tyre swing.
January 31, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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One week to go before As Bright As a Rainbow is out - January 31!

As Bright As a Rainbow is written by Romy Ash, illustrated by me, and published by HarperCollins. This picturebook is about gender diversity and the importance of being yourself.

🌈📚 #kidlit #kidlitart
As Bright As a Rainbow sitting open on the beach with the background of the ocean and sunset. The illustration shows three children and an adult on the beach looking out at a sunset. As Bright As a Rainbow book cover.
January 24, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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Starting off my reading year well by finishing a book by a trans author. I highly recommend The Fae Keeper/The Witch King duology! I also bought Godly Heathens also by H.E. and can't wait to read it.

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The Fae Keeper by HE Edgmon
January 14, 2024 at 12:35 AM
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If you were not aware already, As Bright As a Rainbow, written by Romy Ash and illustrated by me, will be out January 31! This picturebook is about gender diversity and the importance of being yourself. Leading up to the launch date, I'll be posting some sneak peaks of the inside pages.

#kidlit
First spread of pictuebook As Bright As a Rainbow by Romy Ash and Blue Jaryn, sitting in a large pumpkin patch. The illustration shows three children backyard gardening. Pictuebook As Bright as a Rainbow by Romy Ash and Blue Jaryn, sitting in a large pumpkin patch.
January 11, 2024 at 4:56 AM
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What could be in this box I wonder??
A cardboard box with HarperCollins Publishers written on the side.
December 30, 2023 at 1:36 AM
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A tiny joy: finally seeing Payden's Pronoun Party out in the wild for the first time (aka my local library).

#kidlit
Payden's Pronoun Party, written by me and illustrated by Xochitl Cornejo, held up in front of a picturebook library shelf.
November 14, 2023 at 10:47 PM
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Pot plant birds update.
A bird nest with three hatchlings just starting to grow tufts of feathers.
November 3, 2023 at 3:38 AM
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Pot plant bird update.
A bird nest with two newly hatched baby birds and one blue egg.
October 31, 2023 at 11:07 PM
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Book banning bigots worst nightmare!

This is a fun book I was happy to find in my local library.
Picturebook If You're a Drag Queen and You Know It by Lil Miss Hot Mess and Olga de Dios. Three brightly dressed drag queens striking poses are illustrated on the cover.
October 20, 2023 at 12:05 AM
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Okay, stop everything, because a bird is nesting in our back porch area...inside a pot plant.
A black bird in a nest on top of a pot plant, surrounded by other plants on a bamboo stand.
October 17, 2023 at 6:29 AM
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I’m thrilled to finally announce and reveal the cover for the first picturebook I’ve illustrated!

As Bright as a Rainbow, written by Romy Ash and published by HarperCollins.

#KidLit #KidLitArt
Book cover of As Bright as a Rainbow: A book about gender and being yourself, by Romy Ash and Blue Jaryn, with colourful title text and watercolour illustrations of a dog chewing one of the letters and two smiling androgynous child characters. One is posing and has brown skin and hair, wearing a purple vest and tights, and the other is on a tyre swing, with white skin and blue hair.
September 14, 2023 at 8:06 AM