Diana Sudyka

Happy Winter Solstice! Welcome back longer days of sunlight! Taken while walking our dog Junco near our home today. 🌞

It’s finally finished and here! So excited to share my latest illustrations for another picture book by @maria_gianferrari_author and published by #beachlanebooks/ @simonandschuster: JUST ONE OAK! Available for preorder now, release date: 4/6/26!

Recently completed commissioned painting. Thanks to everyone near and far that supported my work this year, making it possible to do what I do. #illustration #gouachepainting #illustrator

Just One Oak: What a Single Tree Can Be What a Single Tree Can Be

Happy Winter's Eve from JUST ONE OAK!!

Gorgeous art by @tinyaviary.bsky.social

Coming 4/7 from @ssedlib.bsky.social
@simonkids.bsky.social

#edusky
#TLchat
#skybrarisn
#forestschools

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A peek at interior illustration for an upcoming 2027 book that I can’t wait to share! #illustration #illustrator #picturebook

Thank you Dr. Goodall. RIP.

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Know your rights, Illinois.

Stay safe and stay informed.

The War on Truth Heats Up (just in time for Constitution Day) Hannah Arendt famously wrote, “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the real...

Kirk's murder is being weaponized to corral us into a smaller and smaller arena of speech, and it is our job to refuse to be confined, to keep speaking out, to keep making irreverent jokes, supporting progressive voices, chastising the high-profile cowards, and talking among ourselves.

We all deserve to have a happy and safe home where we are loved and respected by family and friends. So many today lack this, or it is being wrenched from them. My heart and thoughts today while working on this sketch for an upcoming book.

Proof of a new book on the horizon. A little scene from Just One Oak by @maria_gianferrari_author illustrations by me 👋 #justoneoak #beachlanebooks #simonandschuster

Cover reveal for JUST ONE OAK!

Stunning art by @tinyaviary.bsky.social

Coming February 2026 from @simonkids.bsky.social

#oaktrees

Pre-order at S&S above or Bookshop

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Independent Bookstore Day is tomorrow and there’s so much going on! Beloved local indie store @bookedevanston has a FULL day of activities! I will be doing a drawing demo from 9:30-11:30am, and they will have a ton of new merch with designs I created! Stop by! Let’s goooooooo!

Finally finished my @kirikipress embroidery kit last night. 🐺

Saturday morning stick bug. #illustration #illustrator #childrenspicturebooks📚 #picturebooks #picturebookillustration #gouache #watercolourpainting #watercolor #rolypoly #stickbug #biodiversity

Meta's Massive AI Training Book Heist: What Authors Need to Know  - The Authors Guild Today, The Atlantic published a search tool that allows authors to check if their works are in LibGen, an illegal pirate site AI companies copied for their AI systems. This is a similar tool to the on...

Good news for fellow authors disheartened by your books being illegally used to train AI;

"If your book was used by Meta, you’re automatically included in the Kadrey v. Meta class action in Northern California..."

And @authorsguild.bsky.social has some practical steps you can take.

Recent commission, gouache watercolor on paper. #illustration #illustrator #painting #gouache #gouacheillustration #watercolor #watercolorpainting

Christopher Weyant @christopherweyant1.bsky.social

Before/after digital work on the original gouache painting of acorn woodpeckers for an upcoming book. #illustration #illustrator #picturebook #childrensbookillustration #gouache #gouachepainting #procreateart #ipaddrawing

Two cockroaches watch a movie in the theatre. One turns to the other and says, “Let’s leave before the lights come on.”

A cartoon by Elisabeth McNair. #NewYorkerCartoons

Another fun illustration I created for beloved local, indie bookstore @bookedevanston ✨#illustration #illustrator #procreateart #digitalart

I had a lot of fun painting this recent picture book spread of acorn woodpeckers. Such a cool species!

Claudia Scheinbaum, President of Mexico, in the centre of the image in a purple dress on International Women’s Day, 2025. A search around on google fails to turn up an image credit unfortunately, I found it on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalRenaissance/s/MGhF9O80FL

HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE.

(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)

Black-throated Blue Warbler on antique envelope. New painting in my shop.

We need our old growth forests more than ever.

Adding my name to this letter.

Another recent commissioned painting on antique envelope: barn swallow. #illustration #illustrator #waterc#watercolorpainting #goldleaf #goldleafing #ephemera #vintageephemera #collage #collageart #barnswallow #biodiversity

A recent commissioned work: watercolor painting with gold leaf on an antique envelope.

Chart showing that middles aged people especially born first vaccinated between 1963-1967 should get a measles booster

It’s important for folks in their 40s/50s/60s to realize that some of us should get a measles booster. I did a few years ago

A reminder for these times.

This is excellent.