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🎃 Melissa Escobar 🎃@melissaescobarart.com · last wk.

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I would love to do a Halloween themed book! I love illustrating horses, animals, plus cute & magical things with heart. Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency Website: melissaescobarart.com @cbignyc.bsky.social

Illustration of different spiders doing different things in their webs. Two are doing the trapeze, 3 are watching that, 1 is sleeping and the other wove my name and a pumpkin into his web by Melissa Escobar

🎃 Melissa Escobar 🎃@melissaescobarart.com · 2mo ago

Hello, hello all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love doing mazes, hidden pictures and seek & find puzzles! Plus cute, magical, whimsical things with heart. Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency Website: melissaescobarart.com @cbignyc.bsky.social

Hidden pictures puzzle featuring construction vehicles driven by a duck, hippo, robin and a piggy. By Melissa Escobar and done for Nurture Smart.

🎃 Melissa Escobar 🎃@melissaescobarart.com · 3mo ago

Hello, hello all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love doing mazes, hidden pictures and seek & find puzzles! Plus cute, magical, whimsical things with heart. Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social | The Seymour Agency Website: melissaescobarart.com @cbignyc.bsky.social

Seek and find for young children picturing a little town. It has a police station, a fire station and a flower shop, plus houses, apartment buildings and trees. There is a boat on the pond. Art by Melissa Escobar.

🎃 Melissa Escobar 🎃@melissaescobarart.com · 4mo ago

Hello, hello all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love doing mazes, hidden pictures & seek & find puzzles! Plus cute, magical, whimsical things with heart. Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency Website: melissaescobarart.com @cbignyc.bsky.social

Illustration with objects to find featuring dinosaurs.

🎃 Melissa Escobar 🎃@melissaescobarart.com · 5mo ago

Hello, hello all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love doing mazes, hidden pictures and seek & find puzzles! Plus cute, magical, whimsical things with heart. Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social @ The Seymour Agency Website: melissaescobarart.com @cbignyc.bsky.social

Space maze featuring aliens, space and a spaceship. Done with Nurture Smart for helping kids by Melissa Escobar

🎃 Melissa Escobar 🎃@melissaescobarart.com · last yr.

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I would love to do a Halloween themed book! I love illustrating horses, animals, plus cute & magical things with heart. Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency Website: melissaescobarart.com @cbignyc.bsky.social

Cute kid witch with a ghost and bats making her halloween potion. It also features candy corn bubbles and is designed and illustrated by Melissa Escobar.

🎃 Melissa Escobar 🎃@melissaescobarart.com · last yr.

Tis time!!! 🕷🎃👻🦇💀🐈‍⬛🌕

a bunch of pumpkins with faces carved into them and the words happy halloween angel above them

Alt: a bunch of pumpkins with faces carved into them and the words happy halloween angel above them

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🎃 Melissa Escobar 🎃@melissaescobarart.com · last yr.

The look on that dog's face on the second picture...😂😂😂

WeRateDogs@weratedogs.com · last yr.

This is Louie. He got a really bad haircut. And also a villain origin story. 13/10 (TT: maddiehilaski)

a cavapoo with long hair in various shades of gray sits and poses for the camera. his mouth is open and his pink tongue sticks out, his curly hair situated every which way on the top of his head. text on the image says, "the dog i dropped off."

🎃 Melissa Escobar 🎃@melissaescobarart.com · 2y ago

Yes, this! 💯%%%!

Gus 🌱➡️ LBX 422@friedbaens.bsky.social · 2y ago

A BLATANT reminder that I will NEVER support Al or use it.

🎃 Melissa Escobar 🎃@melissaescobarart.com · 2y ago

😂😂😂😂😂

Stephen King@stephenking.bsky.social · 2y ago

Why can’t you play hide and seek with a Pokemon? They always Pikachu. Not very good, I know. I’ll show myself out.

🎃 Melissa Escobar 🎃@melissaescobarart.com · 2y ago

Hi all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love illustrating horses, animals, nature, maps, you name it! Plus cute, magical, whimsical things with heart. Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency Website: melissaescobarart.com @cbignyc.bsky.social

Five quarter horses with different coat colors are talking about how much I love to draw horses. Coat colors clockwise are: Strawberry red roan for the baby, Palomino, Skewbald, Buckskin and Dapple Gray. All draw by me Melissa Escobar. :D

🎃 Melissa Escobar 🎃@melissaescobarart.com · 2y ago

Happy Year of the Snake all! Although this post is a bit late, I still wanted to do this because I'm a snake on the chinese zodiac. So needless to say, I'm very excited about this year!

Cute snake art for the year of the snake 2025. Reds and golds are featured. By Melissa Escobar

🎃 Melissa Escobar 🎃@melissaescobarart.com · 2y ago

Hello, hello all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love illustrating horses, animals, nature, maps, plus cute, magical, whimsical things with heart. Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency Website: melissaescobarart.com @cbignyc.bsky.social

Illustration showing a map of a land in my story in the shape of a dragon by Melissa Escobar

🎃 Melissa Escobar 🎃@melissaescobarart.com · 2y ago

Look what I spotted in the wild at the Barnes N Noble store in Walnut Creek, CA @charlenedraws.bsky.social!!! Right up front too where you come in. 😀😀😀😀

Picture of Amy Wu and the Ribbon Dance and other books at Barnes N Noble.

🎃 Melissa Escobar 🎃@melissaescobarart.com · 2y ago

If you see this, post a unicorn you've painted/drawn 🦄 OMG of course! #kidlitart

Blue unicorn with red, orange and yellow gradient mane in a cloud background with a rainbow at the top by Melissa Escobar.

Charlene Chua@charlenedraws.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you see this, post a unicorn you've painted/drawn 🦄 #kidlitart 🎨

🎃 Melissa Escobar 🎃@melissaescobarart.com · 2y ago

Stupid tech bros. I hope the AI just collapses onto itself. These books will be so completely awful.

Marco Rinaldi@marcorinaldi.bsky.social · 2y ago

Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.

Bookseller article with the headline "New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone" 🤮🤮🤮

🎃 Melissa Escobar 🎃@melissaescobarart.com · 2y ago

I just realized this morning that this next Sunday is December 1st. Anyone else feel like this: 🫨😮 It just made my mind go 🤯! I'm like, no wait! I haven't done all the things I want to do! Someone hit pause, lol!

Jenny Mattern @jengelmattern.bsky.social · 2y ago

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@aoc.bsky.social · 2y ago

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

🎃 Melissa Escobar 🎃@melissaescobarart.com · 2y ago

Hi all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love illustrating horses, animals, nature, maps, you name it! Plus cute, magical, whimsical things with heart. Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency Website: melissaescobarart.com @cbignyc.bsky.social

Map of creative pitfalls and how to navigate them. Has a creative train of thought, roads and a river of dreams. By Melissa Escobar.

Stephanie Ruble @stephanieruble.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today is a good day for self care if you need it, like this cat, hiding behind flowers & biding her time. Hope this brings some joy if you need a pick-me-up. I do. 3" x 3" acrylic & Posca painting on stretched canvas. #selfcare #cats #blackcat #flowers #painting #acrylic #posca #stretchedcanvas

black cat with big yellow eyes and a pink heart nose hiding behind tall pink and yellow flowers. striped yellow sun, blue sky, and green grass in the background.

Brian Kirby @boringstorybook.com · 2y ago

The reactions & questions my 2 sons had after waking up to the news this morning reinforced my strong belief that children are incredibly sophisticated in their thinking, and only lacking in answers that experience will give them. Never talk down to a child. Always help them reach the best answer. ❤️

Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 2y ago

The one thing I’m certain of this morning #kidlit is that books matter more than ever.

Dow Phumiruk @dowphumiruk.bsky.social · 2y ago

You are not alone, by far. 💙“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear.” - Toni Morrison. #kidlit #illustration #art #artist #artists #fight #lgbtqrights #womensrights #kindness #tolerance #freedom

Lackadaisy Tracy @lackadaisy.bsky.social · 2y ago

Keep making art. Keep writing your stories. Even if they must exist in secret for a time, they are important - each of them a little act of rebellion. Most of all, keep on living. If you can muster no other motivation on some days, then do it out of righteous spite for those who want you gone.

Lvadams/Nimure @lvadams.bsky.social · 2y ago

I find myself clinging to stories I love this morning, and messages of hope. I am scared, more scared than I’ve been in a long time, but trying to convince myself we will get through this, and make it out the other side.

🎃 Melissa Escobar 🎃@melissaescobarart.com · 2y ago

Hi all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love illustrating horses, animals, nature, maps, you name it! Plus cute, magical, whimsical things with heart. Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency Website: melissaescobarart.com @cbignyc.bsky.social

Spiders swinging on a web trapeze and one spider has done my name and a pumpkin in his web. For Halloween by Melissa Escobar.

🎃 Melissa Escobar 🎃@melissaescobarart.com · 2y ago

This was exactly my sentiment today as I realized it's October 1st! How????? And hooray spooky season!!!

Brian Kirby@boringstorybook.com · 2y ago

It’s alive! 🎃

Cartoon of a girl dressed as the bride of frankenstein screaming at a wall calendar showing October 1

🎃 Melissa Escobar 🎃@melissaescobarart.com · 2y ago

Well said, very well said.

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🎃 Melissa Escobar 🎃@melissaescobarart.com · 2y ago

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #357,650! Well, I'm in the first 10%! Very cool!

My user number is 357,650 and I was in the first 10% for Bluesky.

🎃 Melissa Escobar 🎃@melissaescobarart.com · 2y ago

Hi all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love illustrating horses, animals, nature, maps, you name it! Plus cute, magical, whimsical things with heart. Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency Website: melissaescobarart.com @cbignyc.bsky.social

Map of what it's like to be creative and all the challenges that come with it. Has a train of creative thought, a river of dreams and features all those dead end cul-de-sacs we artists sometimes end up in. By Melissa Escobar.