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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/

#KidLitArt #illustration #kidlit
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Thanks @olgaherrera.bsky.social for sending me this 😂😅
November 14, 2025 at 6:25 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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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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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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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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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...

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October 22, 2025 at 1:02 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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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
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Happy Spooky #kidlitartpostcard!

I'm Cat, I'm an Illustrator, and I love spooky season.
I'm available to work on cover art or kids' magazines only.

🎃 catarinaoliveirastudio.com 🎃
Rep'd by @thet2agency.bsky.social

#kidlitart #kidlitartist #bookcovers #coverart #middlegradebooks
Two kids are standing at the top of the staircase in front of a large framed portrait of a couple. One of the kids is holding a flashlight, unaware that the kid behind them is waving hello to the transparent green ghost emerging from the painting, who is also waving back.
October 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Fall things 🎃🍂

I enjoy creating magazine spreads like this one.

#autumn #fall #october #pumpkinpatch #kidlitart #kidsmagazine #fallactivities #kidlitillustrator #kidlitartist #childrensbookillustrator #childrensbookillustration #kidlitillustration #editorial
October 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Happy October!!! 💀🕷️🦇🎃

#kidlitart
October 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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BOOK COVER ARTISTS

QRP with your book covers 📚

#kidlitart #kidlit
September 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Soup, anyone?

#kidlitart #TBT #halloween
September 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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I'm feeling the crisp morning air.
It's almost time to change my main gallery from Summer art to Fall/Winter 🤗🍂❄️ with a bit of the Holidays in the mix 😁

But first, spooky season!!!! 🦇

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#kidlitart #portfolio #winterart
September 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Finished this one for Grandparents' Day.
My grandpa also had a white beard, wore suspenders and taught me how to ride a bike 😊💙

#kidlitart #grandparentsday #grandpa #grayscale #chapterbook #blackandwhite #illustration #bike
Grayscale illustration of a white-bearded older man on his knees, handling a tool and a child's bike. A kid wearing a large helmet sits next to him, looking up with a happy expression. The scene takes place in a backyard, and there's a cat going through a fence behind them.
September 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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It's September, so it feels like October 😁, and the air is chilly. Naturally, my mind is on the best season of the year - spooky season! #kidlitart
September 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Finished this background with my Cora and Robert's inspired "oil painting", for a spooky illo just before "DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE" is going into the theatres 😍

#spookyseason #sneakpeek #kidlitart
2 images side by side. On the left, a photo of a couple standing in a foyer is a scene from the series Downton Abbey. On the right, my illustration of a staircase with a red carpet leading to a large oil painting framed in gold. In the painting, there's a couple based on the photo, wearing the same clothes: he in a green suit and she in a purple dress.
September 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Hi #kidlitartpostcard!

Even the best-laid plans can sometimes go wrong 🤔

Want to know what they are searching for, even in the rain? Check the chapter book coming out this October ⤵️

www.catarinaoliveirastudio.com/book-lost-loot

#endofsummer #september #kidlit #kidlitart #chapterbook #grayscale
Grayscale illustration. Two kids at the beach, looking worried, dig in the dunes with shovels, as it's raining.
September 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Happy #NationalDogDay! 🐕

#kidlitart #dogs
August 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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It's back-to-school day today for many kids, teachers and librarians.
Good luck! ✨

#kidlitart #coverart #middlegrade #illustration #backtoschool
August 19, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Is it Halloween yet?
Sneak peek of the mysterious old portrait before I cover it, slice it, and destroy it 😁👀👻

Can you tell I love drawing frames?

#workinprogress #kidlitart #coverart #scaryillustration #wip #middlegrade #oldmansion
August 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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I'm having a blast painting an "oil" portrait to use as a background for an illustration, which you will barely see in the final piece.

Paint brushes by @planetsmudge.bsky.social are way too much fun!

#wip #workinprogress #kidlitart
And yes, that's Robert and Cora from Downton Abbey, my inspo.
August 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Latest version has more details, inspired by #DiversifyMyArt @larissadelliott.bsky.social

Procreate brushes used are by @planetsmudge.bsky.social because new brushes can also help during uninspired times.

Website updated! catarinaoliveirastudio.com

#kidlitart #picturebooks #nonfiction #t2agency
August 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM