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Clare aka GingerKnits
@claresdraws.bsky.social
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Illustrator, storyteller, student, wildlife geek, crafty type, ally, looong Covider

She/her they/them

Illustration portfolio here: clarestorry.com

Pathways Into Kids Illustration mentee 2022-2024
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Whipped up a creepy bag for the local kids to collect their sweets, if they dare...
Paper bag with a scary mouth hole. Big pointy teeth surrounding the hole.
October 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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The Worlds We Leave Behind by @afharrold.com is brilliantly unsettling. Highly recommend. Plus Levi Pinfold's illustrations are spectacular.
Cover of The Worlds We Leave Behind. Pale green forest with a small river running through it. Some young people are balancing their way along the river bank, their backs to us.
October 31, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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I remember finding Seven Ghosts by Chris Priestley suitably creepy. Plus it's a Barrington Stoke book so the accessibility is an extra win. #KidLit #KidLitUK
Cover of Seven Ghosts by Chris Priestley showing a child illuminated under their chin by mobile phone light against a dark background with a faintly visible creepy house.
October 31, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Playing around with inky shapes as part of #blobtober. #Inktober #cats #KidsIllustration
Rusty orange ink blobs with cut out yellow eyes and dip pen legs, tails, ears, whiskers to make cat drawings. The cats are in various poses and actions.
October 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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This petition closes today. It's so close to getting 200,000 signatures. Please share and sign. Thank you.

Urgently fulfil humanitarian obligations to Gaza.

#FreePalestine
Screenshot of UK government petition website. Petition: Urgently fulfil humanitarian obligations to Gaza Act to ensure deliverer of fuel, food, aid, life saving services etc. We think this shouldn't be dependant/on condition of Israeli facilitation as the Knesset voted against UNWRA access to Gaza. We think if military delivery of aid, airdrops, peacekeepers etc, are needed, then all be considered. Petition is at 197,343 signatures at the time of posting
July 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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UK government petition. Stop all arms exports to Israel. Please sign here petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Thanks
Screenshot of UK gov petition page Immediately stop all arms exports to Israel and seek ceasefire in Gaza. Over 45 500 signatures at the time of posting.
May 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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I have completed Cold Harbour.
Screenshot of completed game 368 Chickens. A chicken matching grid game.
April 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Sharing the Women's March protest sign I found tucked away behind my sofa just before the November election.

Waving in solidarity with everyone protesting today!
Handmade protest sign. Rainbow colours read Super callous fragile ego sexist fascist POTUS. All of his policies are terribly atrocious.
April 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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The latest Phoenix is making me cackle. #KidLit #KidLitUK
Photo cover of the latest issue of the Phoenix comic. Spoof cover. Total Brick: the magazine for brickthusiasts Photo. Back cover of the latest Phoenix comic. Why settle for the real thing? brAIck the AI brick you can trust.
March 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Let's decelerate the moving parts
Photo. Big eared tabby cat sitting on a garden wall gazing up, one paw raised. He's very cute.
March 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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This wasn't how I was expecting to start my day...
Photo, Peter Duncan, 1980s Blue Peter presenter learning against a small tree wearing his signature green and white checkered suit. Photo, Peter Duncan, 1980s Blue Peter presenter holding a basket containing golden retriever puppy soft toys wearing his signature green and white checkered suit. Photo, wacky Peter Duncan, 1980s Blue Peter presenter learning against a ladder wearing his signature green and white checkered suit. He's pulling a wacky face and is pulling his red braces out to the side.
March 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Sharing this just so I can use #BloomScrolling
Photo. A very bright scarlet pink amaryllis flower in full bloom caught in a sunbeam.
March 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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My brain is still a bit frazzled after a full on but most excellent day at London Book Fair yesterday. Our exhibition looks great, had lots of interest. Yay! Big thank you to everyone who supported our Crowdfunder to make this happen!
Photo of left to right, me, my course friend Takako and writer Nicola Davies. We're stood in front of one of my final course work illustrations which Nicola wrote the story for.
March 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Yay! If you have time please pop in to our Pathways emerging illustrators exhibition. It's on the ground floor near the children's book section. My coursemates are a skilled bunch.
Map of part of London Book Fair
March 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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I'm currently reading Erasure by Percival Everett. It's my third novel by him, love the way he throws dry humour into his work. Big fan.
Book cover screenshot of Erasure by Percival Everett. Cover image is a black and white photo of a young black boy holding a pistol against his head while smiling.
March 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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#ProofOfCat.

The cat in my header is a #NotMyCat who likes to hang out my garden, watch what we're up to through the kitchen window and play a good game of chase the stick. If we sit out in warmer weather he enjoys a good cuddle. We call him our cat friend.
Photo of a tabby cat, green eyes, huge ears sitting on a garden table looking to the side of the camera. He's got big squidgy cat cheeks.
March 8, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Happy World Book Day!

35 emerging kids book illustrators are trying to exhibit our work at London Book Fair next week.

We've nearly hit our fundraising needs but have been hit with last minute unexpected costs.

Any support is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/pathwayslb...
Illustration A cute green troll reads a gardening book by a brook next to a bridge. The text above outlines our fundraiser, similar to text in post. Big thank you to everyone who has supported us so far. xxx
March 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Our Crowdfunder to get 35 emerging #KidLit illustrators from underrepresented backgrounds to showcase our work at London Book Fair has been extended. We're almost there in making this happen.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/pathwayslb...

Thank you x

#BookSky #Illustration
Illustration. A girl stand on top of a lighthouse in front of a giant iceberg with eyes. The girl is waving a climate crisis protest sign.
March 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Our Crowdfunder to get 35 emerging #KidLit illustrators from underrepresented backgrounds to showcase our work at London Book Fair has been extended. We're almost there in making this happen.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/pathwayslb...

Thank you x

#BookSky #Illustration
Illustration of a polar bear sitting on an iceberg under a caption saying help us get to London Book Fair.
March 4, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Can you help myself and my diverse group of coursemates show our work at London Book Fair? We need to raise funds for professionally printing our artwork.

You can see more of our work on our fundraiser page. Thank you x

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/pathwayslb...

#KidLit #Illustration #ClimateCrisis
An illustration showing a girl kayaking across an iceberg filled Arctic sea full of marine life. The animals are saying thank you.
February 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Oh no, RIP Michelle Trachtenberg. You were so good as Dawn in Buffy.
February 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Everyone makes a growth chart for their amaryllis, right? Right?
An amaryllis stem against a window pane with marks on the frame indicating freakily rapid plant growth.
February 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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35 emerging #KidLit illustrators from underrepresented backgrounds
1 opportunity to exhibit our work at London Book Fair
1 Crowdfunder to fund our printing costs

A bajillion thank yous from me and my coursemates x

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(Image is a variation of my final Pathways coursework cover)
Book cover. A girl stands on a lighthouse in front of a sentient iceberg with huge eyes. Text reads Help us get to London Book Fair, thank you
February 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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I did a #BirbFest. Behold the Cuban Tody!

Painted with gouache and watercolour with a bit of ink and colour #pencil.

#art #paint #illustration #bird
Painting of a Cuban Tody. Small green bird with white front, long red beak, and a big round white eye with brown pupil. The bird is perched on a diagonal white and brown branch against a grubby jungle green background.
January 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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I went to see The Tempest last night and drew the view from my seat.
Dark blue ink and wash sketch of the view from my theatre seat. Back of seats and people's heads in the foreground. Stage and curtains in the middle. Some sketchy rigging and speakers above the stage. To the right are boxes. On the left an interval ice cream seller. The cast of The Tempest on stage at the end of the performance. Their costumes are mostly shades of blue and grey. They are stood against a grey/blue background.
January 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM