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Lauren Tregenza
@laurentregz.bsky.social
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Artist | Book Illustration | Urban Sketching. Based in 🇨🇦

#Seekingrepresentation #kidlitart
#SCBWI Member
#UskToronto urban sketching

Portfolio and Prints: https://lauren-e-tregenza.com
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Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!

A spooky cat for October.

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#kidlit #childrensbookillustration
A spooky cat channeling the power of the moon. Watercolour and coloured pencil on paper.
October 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Kensington Market sketch meetup. It was so fun to reconnect with familiar faces and a few new ones! The Sunday vibes were feeling just right 😊

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Street corner sketch of Kensington Market in Toronto.
September 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Messy sketches, figuring out potential new composition ideas. Kids are excited to go back to school, but there is so much newness - new friends, new lessons. Sometimes they seem quite lost. It's amazing to watch confidence grow and to be a support in that growth.
#journal #kidlitart #teacher
Sketchbook spread depicting watercolour sketches and composition ideas
September 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Another #kidlitartpostcard 🌻

This little scene was sitting in my sketchbook for ages. Painting animal characters is so fun! I am excited to get into some autumn themed illustrations throughout the month.

#kidlitart #dogwalker
A children's book illustration featuring a child out for a play with their pet dog.
September 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!

I am an illustrator working in traditional watercolour and gouache. I love painting subjects inspired by moments and memories outdoors.

🖌️ Seeking representation
🖌️ Available for work

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latregenza@gmail.com
#kidlitart #storybook #rabbits
A colourful scene painted in gouache depicting two rabbits touching noses.
September 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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This was such a fun exercise to loosen up with character/ shape creation. Minimal and confident marks - it's interesting how little detail you have to add to bring a shape to life. #kidlitart #studies
Doggy in gouache. Meow Sunflower using negative space
August 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Sketching under the watchful eye of a Cormorant. He kept diving, floating towards me, drying his wings and then swimming again. This bird knew how to relax! #urbansketching @usktoronto.bsky.social @urbansketchers.bsky.social
10 min sketch of a water fountain near the beaches in Toronto. Watercolour and brush pen.
August 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Making more blobs to cope with my partner leaving for 2 weeks 😭. Kinda love making these right now. #kidlitart #gouache #emotionalcopingblobs
Colourful emotional coping blobs
August 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Playing with shapes.. and colour. I might add in details, but leaving them blank somehow feels more exciting because there are more open possibilities?

What should these blobs be? What do you see?
#gouache #illustration #sketchbook #practice #kidlitart #wip
Colourful shape studies in gouache using negative space.
August 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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WIP. having such a good time with this piece. The gouache is really behaving so well 😍
#kidlitart #wip #storybook #illustration #fairytale
Work in progress of a colourful forest scene in gouache.
August 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Gouache and coloured pencil landscape practice... I love the colours. Sometimes doodles surprise you.
#sketchbook #backgroundart #kidlitart
A little landscape study painted from imagination.
August 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Quick little plein air gouache with funky colours. #kidlitart #background #landscapeart #urbandrawing #outdoorsketch
A colourful gouache study of some trees in a local park.
August 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Ink linework before the wash.
August 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Family visits and sketches on the grass. The cicadas were singing and Anne told me stories about family.
#urbandrawing #housesketch #architecture #kidlitart @usktoronto.bsky.social @urbansketchers.bsky.social
Watercolour and ink sketch of an old century home
August 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Family visits and sketching under the shade of a huge maple tree. Marco and dad changed the brakes on his car. I love sketching these little moments. #urbandrawing #kidlitart @usktoronto.bsky.social @urbansketchers.bsky.social
Outdoor sketches of a car and the garden in front of an old house.
August 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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A sketch from last weekend, it was nice to slow down and capture detail.
#urbandrawing #architecture @usktoronto.bsky.social @urbansketchers.bsky.social
Sketch of East End United Church on the Danforth
August 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Cafe sketch on my lunch break ♥️🐞 one day bicycles won't be like drawing horses to me 🥲 #urbandrawing @usktoronto.bsky.social @urbansketchers.bsky.social #urbansketching #outdoorsketchbook #penandink
Sketchbook spread of a house and local coffee patrons.
August 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Quick sketch session using quickposes.com I just noticed that they have timed references for urban, landscape and animals now! Such a great resource when you don't know what to draw.

#sketchbook #kidlitart #gesturedrawing #figuredrawing
Sketchbook view featuring loose sketches of human figures.
July 30, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Went for a little bike ride to Woodbine Beach! There was a volleyball tournament happening... Which suddenly ended and then there were hundreds of people walking at me. I packed up and scittered away.
#urbandrawing #sketchbookpractice @usktoronto.bsky.social @urbansketchers.bsky.social #kidlitart
Sketchbook study of Woodbine Beach boardwalk
July 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Sketches from a canoe trip along the French River! I took lots of pictures on film too, I hope they turn out. I love to sketch outdoors, and the hope is that it filters into my children's book illustration work.
#naturesketch #watercolour #sketchbook #outdoordrawing #landscapeart #kidlitart
Watercolour sketchbook spread of the French River
July 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Had a lovely canoe camping trip with some friends of ours along the French River. They have two young children, and it was amazing to see how capable they are ♥️. I managed to sneak in some quick and simple sketches. #watercoloursketch #naturesketch #outdoordrawing #landscapesketch #kidlitart
Watercolour study of a horizon line along the French River.
July 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Sketched another park scene, decided to focus on the little garden arrangement.
#urbandrawing #naturesketch @usktoronto.bsky.social @urbansketchers.bsky.social #kidlitart
Sketchbook spread of scenes from a park, painted in the outdoors.
July 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Sketch in the park to beat the heat! Trying to find little moments that tell a story. Hoping that these summer sketches can inform book illustration projects in the future. #urbandrawing #kidlitart @usktoronto.bsky.social @urbansketchers.bsky.social @scbwicanadaeast.bsky.social
Sketchbook study of two men chatting in the park.
July 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Had a lovely weekend, my niece turned two and fit in a little sketch by the beach. @usktoronto.bsky.social @urbansketchers.bsky.social #urbandrawing #sketchbook #illustratedjournal #kidlitart
Sketches from the weekend. Beach in the background.
July 16, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Lunch break house sketches! Completed the second side... I had more time for the second one, and tried out more delicate and slow lines... I still prefer the first one I think!
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Pen and ink illustration of houses. Drawn outside during my lunch break.
July 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM