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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A day late… but when you are out flying around all night, you lose track of time. #kidlitartpostcard #kidlitart #kidlit #illustration #halloweenart

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Character drawings are haunting me this Spooky season! I offer character drawing and design mentorships since 2020! Message me for info! I’ve been the medium for character drawing growth for many a #kidlit hopeful lurking who needed a nudge !!! #characterdesign #illustration #kidlitart

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The first illustration of these spooky pals made… 5-6 years ago. Who knows ?… it was those lock down daze. I enjoy this younger witchy kid! Hope you enjoy the re-runs! DM for prints! #halloween #halloweenart #witch #illustration #print

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Every year I make an illustration with these three spooky pals.. ‘Tis Near Halloween so I sketched this year’s hoping to finish soon! #halloween #witch #illustration #kidlitart

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Clean the studio. Reorganize the cups. Reboot for the upcoming semester. Start fresh. #kidlitart

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I am teaming up with the fabulously bananas Lala Watkins for this 2 night mini on Character Design for the ever wonderful @boydsmills.bsky.social !!! It’s next week - you can still sign up!!! Visit the Boyds Mills website!

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

New episode of Cartoon Everything with Jen de Oliveira!! The creator of the Reggie books , Sunday Ha Ha and an exciting new series Pip and Pals… chats with us about her lifelong cartoon obsessions! #cartoon #kidscomics youtu.be/E1TatPq0StY?...

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

@meesimo.bsky.social has another great cartoon book recommendation and on the Cartoon Everything podcast we have @chuckdillon.bsky.social this week!! youtu.be/5cG-_Nfzv84?... #podcast #cartooning

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Monday’s episode of Cartoon Everything is with cartoonist and all around funny guy @chuckdillon.bsky.social !! Visit our YouTube channel youtube.com/@cartoonever... #cartoon #illustration #comics #kidlitart

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This week on Cartoon Everything the podcast we chat with Bill Drastal! @billdrastal.bsky.social He’s an amazing caricaturist and animation pro! We had fun! Check out our cartooning workshop this summer at The Highlights Foundation at cartooneverything.com

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Monday’s new episode of Cartoon Everything the podcast is with illustrator extraordinaire Dale Stephanos!! We talk about his cartoony beginnings! Check it out on youtube and gi yo cartooneverything.com for our workshop info! #artretreat #cartooning #comics

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Visit cartooneverything.com for podcast and workshop info! #cartooning #workshop #illustration #comics #caricature

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Cartoon Everything the workshop is a 3 day cartooning retreat at the Highlight’s Foundation Aug. 3-6! Visit cartooneverything.com for info and registration. Also check out the link to cartoon everything the podcast!

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Woo hoo Gnome and Rat! Cartoon Everything is a podcast and a 3 day workshop at the Highlights Foundation this summer. We eat, sleep, breathe everything cartooning and want to help you with cartooning skills! Check out cartooneverything.com for info and registration and podcast too!! #comics

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

This week! The Cartoon Everything podcast starts with guest @yaytime.bsky.social Dave Roman. We’ll chat about everything cartoons in Dave’s world! Info on The Cartoon Everything workshop in August at Highlights can be found at cartooneverything.com #cartoon #comic #illustration #artworkshop

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The Cartoon Everything Podcast is launching Monday on youtube and the Cartoon Everything Workshop is back in August at the Highlights Foundation! @meesimo has a cartoon book rec! Visit Cartooneverything.com for information, registration and podcast !! #cartoon #artworkshop #comics #smurfs #bookrec

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I wish I were in Ireland sketchin’ in a pub!! Happy St. Pat’s !!

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Do you need to wipe away the last project to take on the next? My last project was spending 2 years getting my MFA degree in 2024.Then 23 days later starting as a full time college assistant professor. It’s been Good things, tough things, some really tough things. Always, back to the drawing board.

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

#hourlycomics every year are so enjoyable. I have yet to have a year that I can enjoy making them. This year… I sat down to draw and the whir of dread in my head overtook all. Dread. Dreaaaad. So much, too much. How are you doing over there?

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Perhaps longing to hide in a handbag is how you feel as well. I certainly feel like a perturbed Pomeranian, self protective and unsure about interaction. But alas, the life of a freelance illustrator requires promotion. So here I am posting and working on a picture book dummy for this guy. #kidlit

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

In 2025, I hope you get your favorite cheese… or non-dairy substitute food product.

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

There are a lot of new people here! I have been busy an Assistant Professor in Illustration & Animation at UHart. I am illustrating a picture book written by Samantha -amazing- Berger out in 2026, holding an August workshop called Cartoon Everything! @ Highlights w/ Christian J. Meesey.. Say Hey!

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Art in progress from my #mfa thesis, drawing 100 #womenofillustration Angel de Cora Dietz is the heart of the project. She is buried just ten minutes from my house. I have been a working illustrator for over thirty years and never heard of her. My hope is to teach about all of these omitted women.

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

A mountain of work awaits me after the holiday cook-a-thon.BUT ya know what lives in mountains? SNOW MONKEYS. I currently would give anything to be in a hot amongst my mountain of work.I doodled to rev my engine so.Do you need to rev your engine (imagination) before getting to work too?

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

My MFA program thru University Hartford is lead by the esteemed C.F. Payne.We visited Chadds Ford, PA and the Brandywine museum last week.Close by was the studios of the Wyeth family.Also?The home and summer studio of Howard Pyle. Pyle taught 40 women illustrators between the years of 1898-1903.

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

I love getting to know my student’s art and their journeys! Prescott Hill is the toy designer who brought you The Littlest Pet Shop characters! My class gave him the space to explore his own characters and stories! Register for this month’s class at illustrationdept.com/classes/char...

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Just back from Philadelphia with my MFA Illustration group from UHART with CF Payne, our fearless leader. We have to do a reaction piece after. I sketched mine the night I got back! #kidlit #characterdesign #illustration #mfa #childrensillustration Shane’s Confectionary is magical!

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

A new session of my Character Design Class starts this Wed, 7 PM EST. A few spots left! 4 weeks.. fun assignments.. cartoons as home work.. and a one on one session too! Register now: illustrationdept.com/classes/char... #characterdesign #cartoon #kidlit #kidlitart

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

New session of my character design class starting Oct. 25th! 7 PM Est for four weeks! Register at illustrationdept.com/classes/char.... #illustration #characterdesign #kidlit #childrensbooks #cartoon #childrensillustration #onlineclass

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

This auction of my spooky bundle ends tomorrow over on instagram at noon! @awetober auctions are raising money to help the victims of the Maui wildfire. Check them all out! #artauction #illustration #witch

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Over on Instagram it’s #awetober and my auction items are up for bid to raise money for the Maui wildfire! This Halloween bundle has bidding starting at $60.00. Please go check out this and other #awetober auctions! #kidlitart #illustration #auction #halloween

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

After a dreamy week at Milkwood, drawing ducks every day surrounded by other artists and beautiful Fall colors.. many deadlines have crashed me down to earth. Still, there’s nothing like giving yourself space to draw for fun. #illustration #kidlitart #kidlit #ducks

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Continuing my quest to get illustrators to share their wall art! I have a few more from my walls.. the front entry wall up the stairs is all black and whites! Some antique silhouettes and drawings by my Mom, art by illustrator Steve Light and his wife Christine And an original comic by Edwina Dumm!

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

What’s on the walls of illustrators’ homes?Art from other illustrators! Fred Blunt’s ink drawing of John Lennon when the Get Back documentary was new. It keeps me inspired! He captured John perfectly. #illustration #cartoon #ink #kidlitart Do you have another illustrators work on your walls?

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

I’m at a duck drawing retreat.

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

What’s on you walls,Illustrators of the world?? I need to keep my eyeballs happy in my home. This vintage Hallmark Snoopy poster was bought a long time ago and kept in a tube until moving to this house in 2021 with a big wall.. in the entry hall. #snoopy #illustration #cartoon kidlitart

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

What’s on your walls, illustrators? I have some extra bedrooms in this big ‘ol farmhouse from 1838. I had to garage sale, Brimfield and facebook marketplace my way through furnishing it all. My friends help fill the walls along with my faves. Dodo by Joy Steuerwald. @joystewy #illustration #kidlit

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

What’s on your walls? What do illustrators hang around the house to make their home a haven for the eyeballs? Here’s my pantry. #illustratorsartcollection #whatsonmywalls #illustration #kidlit #cartoons #kidlitart

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Kelly Light @kelight.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

My pal Brook Gideon asked if I wanted to take a chance at going to Milkwood for an art retreat. I didn’t think we would get a spot! Next week… guess where we will be drawing? I am happier than a duck in flannel. Oh and to ducks, they are just boots. #artretreat #cartoon #duck #kidlit

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