Marit Cooper

KidLit postcard featuring a pirate doing embroidery with a cat at his feet.

Happy New Year! ✨ As we head into the new year, I’m open to picture book illustration work and excited about new collaborations. I specialize in a traditional, hand-crafted aesthetic and love working with authors, editors, and publishers to bring heartfelt children’s stories to life.
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In spite of everything that’s going on I feel strangely optimistic about this one! 😁

Illustration of anthropomorphic vegetables fighting off snails in a rainstorm.

“Look!” said Mushroom Mama, pointing out into the dark garden that was beginning to look like a wet swamp. “The snails can’t swim. They like damp but they drown if there’s too much water. I wish the rains would wash them away once and for all!”

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Illustration of anthropomorphic vegetables.

The following day Strawberry made his way down to the old root cellar at the bottom of the garden. “Hello! Is there anyone down there!?” He shouted. He waited a while as the sound of his voice echoed back, but there came no answer.”We could sure use some help up here…” he added softly.
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Folktale week - Night - Illustration of a group of vegetables defending themselves from snails.

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“We can’t keep going like this,” said Strawberry “we need help!”
“What about the Oooold Potato?” someone whispered. “The legend says that he will return to help when things look bleak and the vegetables are facing their greatest threat…” Was there help to be found in the old root cellar?
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Thanks @desdelboy.bsky.social for sharing this. 😊

Love this. You can never go wrong with a bit of vintage Bowie. 🥰

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Watercolour painting in my sketchbook of a potato with chicken legs and fangs.

🎃I’m telling you, these anthropomorphic vegetables are getting out of hand! Actually, this one would probably qualify as more of a “gallusomorphic” creature.🙄 I don’t even know what’s going on with those fangs?!! 😂
Watercolour in my sketchbook. #art

Gouache painting of yellow apples from my sketchbook.

🍂 Happy October! This one kind of snuck up on me… or maybe I just wasn’t ready to let go of September. As you are enjoying your pumpkin-spiced everything 🎃, I hope this season brings you focus and fulfilment.
#HelloOctober #art

How lovely is this!? 🥰❤️❤️❤️

Wow, thanks guys! So many reposts 😆🥰

Seems to be a plethora of pears in my feed, beginning to look like a fetish… 😂😂

Sketchbook page with gouache painting of pears and blackberries.

🍐There are probably a gazillion things I could be painting, and should be painting, but they all require brain power and I’ve run out of that commodity… hope you’re having a nice restful Sunday. ☺️ #art

Grumpy Pear is slowly turning into an established character in my menagerie, I think he maybe one of my alter egos…

Grumpy Pear with a kundalini-way too excited-worm sticking out of his third eye shouting Happy September!!

I’m tired, I can’t use my words right now. Happy to have arrived in my favourite month of the year, worried because there’s so little left of 2025 and I’m not feeling like I know where I’m going yet. Here’s to spiced lattes and apple pie!

#kidlit #art #September

A plethora of paint tubes scattered across a wooden table.

Am I the only one who, when planning a new project, immediately heads over to their favourite online art materials shop and starts browsing?

Repeat after me: “I do not NEED any MORE tubes of PAINT at THIS time.”

Got it, got it? Good. Now carry on as you were.
#procrastination #evasivemaneuvers

Had to do a double take there, but my tuxedo kitty has a spot under his chin! 🤣😍

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Absolutely gorgeous!

It’s ridiculous and makes you wonder who made that reply. It completely invalidates their service. It may actually be the case that their customer service is entirely run by AI powered chat bots because it seems like such a curious statement to make. 🙄

🤯 predictive reviews?! 🙄😑

I’ve said this, it’s not about sexuality, it’s about feeling like you have the freedom to choose your own path, create a life you actually want. They don’t want people to think they have the option. It’s about having power over the people and force them to fit into their agenda.

YouTube video by Sky News Doctors on the frontline: Victoria Rose and Tom Potokar take you inside the war in Gaza

Is this the one? 😉

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Cut outs of watercolour illustrations depicting anthropomorphic strawberries and a potential turnip?

Cut outs of watercolour illustrations depicting anthropomorphic strawberries and a potential turnip? Scissors and coloured pencils in the margins.

Indulging my obsession with anthropomorphic fruit and veg. There’s something so nice and tactile about cutting them out. 😆

#kidlit #picturebookillustrator #watercolour #art #childrensillustration

This looks like a must have book!

This was a difficult one, and churning out one random illustration per day is chore at the best of times. I do find these challenges interesting though, from an artistic perspective. I’m not sure why the underdog in this narrative is the yellow squash, but I’ll run with it.

I love blue hair, I had blue hair in 2023. Unfortunately having “forest blue” hair when you’re an old lady is not acceptable to the greater population and it got to a point where I was afraid to leave the house…