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Books. ✍️🎨
I illustrated a scene inspired by an as-yet-unpublished YA story I wrote about musical kids who accidentally travel through time to save their hero, the piano composer Frédéric Chopin. 🎩🎹🎵
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Amazing photo. Enjoy!
25.10.2025 20:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#illustration #illustrator #kidlit #amwriting #childrensbooks
22.10.2025 20:51 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s Spring here in New Zealand and today was SUPER windy! 🌬️🧚🌸 Poor fairies.
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Happy Sunday! 💜
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#sunday #sundayfunday #illustration #illustrator #violetlemay #amwriting #kidlit #mbartists
Today in NYC, my #kidlit #illustration agency MB Artists is having a gathering. I’m there in spirit. We drew ourselves as kids for the promo materials. These are mine, plus some photos from the last gathering in 2018.
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#childrensbooks #violetlemay #illustrator #amwriting #mbartists
Inspired by AMAZING fashion spotted last night at the grocery store. (Beware: You never know when you might end up in a book… or at least in my Instagram feed.) 🤭 #people #fashion #style #glasses #amwriting #writer #author #violetlemay #illustrator #newzealand #mbartists
13.10.2025 13:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s Sunday! Do what you love.
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#childrensbooks #sundayfunday #sunday #baking #dog #illustration #illustrator #kidlitart #anwriting #kidlit #violetlemay #mbartists
Thank you! 💕
11.10.2025 00:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’m too old to celebrate birthdays… but little me isn’t. 🥳🎂🎉 #birthdaygirl #violetlemay #amwriting #baby #babies #familyphotos
10.10.2025 17:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A #throwback to my GIANT teen crush on #shauncassidy 🎤🎹. Found BORN LATE recently at a local vinyl shop. 💖💖💖
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#violetlemay #illustration #illustrator #amwriting #kidlit #1970s #mbartists #vintagevinyl #vinyl #teenbeat #mbartists
Don't fear your novel revision! Instead, join us for a workshop on Sat., October 18, with acclaimed KidLit author Misa Sugiura ("Momo Arashima Duels the Queen of Death") about revising. You'll get all the tools you need to revise without the scaries. Register: https://www.kidlitcraft.com/workshops
08.10.2025 19:02 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Happy autumn! 🍂 This illustration is from my latest book A MAKER OF DRESSES.
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Sending big hugs to #Chicago — not my home town but pretty close, and one of my favorite cities on earth. I painted this puzzle many years ago; it's mixed media (acrylics and envelope scraps). No more #ICE raids, please. 💜 #violetlemay #illustrator #illustration #midwest #illinois #brightonpark
07.10.2025 18:04 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Magic is everywhere, all around you. All you have to do is look. 🍂🧚 #violetlemay #illustration #illustrator #amwriting #picturebooks #fairies #faerie #fairy #autumn #fall #mbartists
07.10.2025 16:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Spent my Sunday afternoon starting a new painting. Now… back to work. Happy Monday! 👩🎨 #violetlemay #art #painting #fineart #acrylic #artist #artistsoninstagram
06.10.2025 16:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hey, Timaru!
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Come see me Saturday, 18 October at 1:00 at @timarubooksellers . I'll read my latest picture book, A MAKER OF DRESSES. After that—art activities!
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See you there! ❤️
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#violetlemay #timaru #newzealand #southisland #bookstore #bookevent #picturebook #amwriting #illustration
Hope you have a beautiful Sunday. 🩰 #violetlemay #sundayfunday #sunday #ballet #bunhead #ballerina #illustrator #kidlitart #amwriting #picturebooks
05.10.2025 16:53 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In honor of the weather, here’s a rainy illustration from NY DOGS. ☂️ #violetlemay #illustration #illustrator #amwriting #dogs #corgi #dogs #nydogs
04.10.2025 15:48 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0New project, new method. ✍ #violetlemay #artist #illustrator #drawingonnapkins #drawing #inktober #sketch #sketching
03.10.2025 15:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
✏️It's a complex world, and young readers deserve more than just puppies and rainbows. In this interview, @violetlemay.bsky.social discusses the Power of Darkness in #Kidlit writeforkids.online/instructor-s...
02.10.2025 19:26 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A throwback to our 2019 pre-pandemic Ningbo apartment. Even the laundry room (where I did yoga) was marble! 🧘♀️ #violetlemay #travel #china #yoga #throwback #tbt #amwriting #tbthursday
02.10.2025 17:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Honoring #worldcoffeeday and #inktober ☕️ Hope you enjoy your day a latte! #violetlemay #illustration #illustrator #amwriting #coffee #cafe #latte #mbartists
01.10.2025 15:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A MAKER OF DRESSES seems to be on sale on-line in the US. A cute holiday gift for your little fashionistas and designers. #violetlemay #book #picturebook #giftidea #fashion #sewing #sale #booksale #mbartists
30.09.2025 23:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Monday. 🖤🤍 This very good boy is from my book NY DOGS. #violetlemay #amwriting #illustration #illustrator #dogs
29.09.2025 15:18 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fred and I had fun painting #birdhouses at the Resene booth at the South Canterbury Home & Garden Show. I love his cat! 🐱🐦 #violetlemay #weekend #birdhouse #birds #crafts #timaru #newzealand
28.09.2025 14:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy weekend! 👩🍳 #violetlemay #illustrator #illustration #kidlitart #picturebook #amwriting #bananabread #weekend #baking #grandma
27.09.2025 18:13 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Friday! What movies are you going to watch this weekend? 🍿 #violetlemay #illustration #illustrator #kidlitart #amwriting #friday #weekend #movies #mbartists
26.09.2025 16:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tammy, this is gorgeous, and… oh no! Speedy recovery, sweet friend! 💜
25.09.2025 21:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My baby is 24 today. This is one of my favorite photos from the archives. He’ll be here with us in November and my mission is to photo-document his magnificent beard—stay tuned! 🧔♂️ Hug your kids. It goes much too fast! #violetlemay #amwriting #illustrator #mom #parenting #kids #motherhood
25.09.2025 18:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
