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Matt Schu

@mattschu.bsky.social
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Artist & children’s book illustrator. Drawing pictures in Portland, Oregon, USA. matt-schu.com

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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Invisible houses
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
120 film
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
35mm
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Gouache sketches
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Medium format film
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
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Callie C. Miller @thesupercallie.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Dust jacket alert for The Vanishing Orphans of Alvanor!! @mattschu.bsky.social illustrated this gorgeous cover. It’s SO pretty. I already loved the design but in person it’s STUNNING! Matt perfectly captured the atmosphere and Bandit’s spunk.
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
18x24” ink & acrylic gouache on paper
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
16x20” oil on canvas
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Works in progress
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
My cover art for the upcoming Backpack, Boy, Berlin written by Kip Wilson
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
4 of my drawings on coasters for Nucleus Portland’s 10th annual “Salut!” group show which opens tomorrow
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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Cat Winters @catwintersbooks.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I just learned that my picture book, CUT!: HOW LOTTE REINIGER AND A PAIR OF SCISSORS REVOLUTIONIZED ANIMATION, illustrated by @mattschu.bsky.social, is a nominee for the Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Awards program! What an honor! library.la.gov/media/fo5m0o... @marthamihalick.bsky.social
An illustrated book cover. Title: Cut! How Lotte Reiniger and a Pair of Scissors Revolutionized Animation. Author/illustrator names at top: C. E. WINTERS, MATT SCHU. 

The illustration shows a white woman with short dark hair standing in a small boat. She's raising a pair of scissors in her right hand and holding a large red flag in her left. She's wearing a white blouse with a black tie, a black skirt, and black tights. The setting sun, the stars, and waves are behind her, plus a brilliant blue and orange sky.
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
THE TONTINE CAPER by @diannesalerni.bsky.social; illus. by @mattschu.bsky.social (Holiday) www.hbook.com/story/2025-s... #SummerReading #HBFamilyReading #FamilyReading #kidlit #Intermediate #MiddleGrade
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Robin Yardi 🐋🌈💙 @robinyardi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"Is it dead?” a kid asks… I’ve heard this question many times from kids on field trips to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History where it was my task to answer them. Today, this book, illustrated by @mattschu.bsky.social and published by Little Bee, hopes to honor their question honestly. 🐋
A black and white photo of a blue whale skeleton exhibited at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History History superimposed with the question: "Is it dead?"Illustrations from the picture book I KNOW THE WHALE by Robin Yardi with Illustrations by Matt Schu, published by Little Bee Books. A girl and her father beside a beached blue whale (top left), a girl and her father walking across the sand toward home as the sun sets behind them (top right), a girl drawing the outline of a blue whale on the asphalt outside her home with white chalk (bottom left), a girl exploring the articulated skeleton exhibit of the same beached blue whale at the Natural History Museum (bottom right), book cover of I KNOW THE WHALE (center).
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
30x40” oil on canvas from my 2023 show with @nucleushouse.bsky.social
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Nucleus House @nucleushouse.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Artist: Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social Title: Backyard Medium: Ink and Acrylic Gouache on Paper Art Size: 11 in. x 14 in. Frame Size: 11.5 in. x 14.5 in. x 1.625 in.
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
3.5x5.5” ink, watercolor, & gouache in Moleskine pocket watercolor notebook.
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Susan Wroble @susanwroble.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
If you are looking for a delightful #NF #KidLit #Poetry read-aloud, take a look at STAR AND THE MAESTRO by Thor Hanson, illustrated by @mattschu.bsky.social about an unlikely pair of musical collaborators. www.10000birds.com/star-and-the...
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STAR AND THE MAESTRO: A KidLit Bird Book Review
In 1784, while walking in Vienna, Mozart heard something that stopped him in his tracks. It was his own melody—but it was coming from a pet store. The source of the music was a starling. In their nonf...
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Nucleus House @nucleushouse.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
🏡 Artist: Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social Title: Tree House on Hill 3 Medium: Ink and Acrylic Gouache on Paper Art Size: 8 in. x 10 in. Frame Size: 8.5 in. x 10.5 in. x 1.625
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Dianne K. Salerni @diannesalerni.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Thanks to @thehornbook.bsky.social for this scrumptious review of THE TONTINE CAPER! 🎉🎈 In celebration, I am sharing one of the hilarious illustrations by @mattschu.bsky.social. The book releases on April 22! @smorgridge.bsky.social
B/w illustration of a person in silhouette being pushed out a window. Text reads: THE HORN BOOK calls THE TONTINE CAPER a feisty puzzle mystery with a hearty dollop of humor. The inept murder-minded antics ... are just one example of the hilarious hijinks sprinkled throughout this farce, which registers surprise after surprise until, in a final sleight of hand, Salerni delivers a heartwarming ending that few will see coming.
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Nucleus House @nucleushouse.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
🏡 Artist: Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social Title: Tree House on Hill 2 Medium: Ink and Acrylic Gouache on Paper Art Size: 8 in. x 10 in. Frame Size: 8.5 in. x 10.5 in. x 1.625 in.
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
5x7” each, ink & acrylic gouache
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
#sketchbook
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Dianne K. Salerni @diannesalerni.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
THE TONTINE CAPER is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection! Woo Hoo! Looking forward to putting this book, with illustrations by @mattschu.bsky.social, into the hands of readers young and not-so-young this spring! What would YOU do for $150k?
Cover image shows shadowy figure running into darkness with key in hand. Text announces Jr Libary Guild selection and adds *A Fortune in Cash *3 Elderly Finalists *3 Families that will do Whatever it Takes *One 11 yo boy Caught in the Middle ~~~ Shenanigans Begin April 22, 2025
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Dianne K. Salerni @diannesalerni.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Delighted to reveal the cover for my 4/22 release, THE TONTINE CAPER, illustrated by @mattschu.bsky.social! It's a comedy mystery for MG readers set in a crummy inn on a mountain in the Poconos in 1900. Shenanigans ensue when $150k is at stake for the last surviving member of a tontine.
The cover depicts a shadowy figure running down a hallway with a key grasped in his hand. The Tontine Caper, by Dianne K Salerni, illustrated by Matt Schu
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Drawings for Nucleus House gallery’s current group show. 5x7” ink & acrylic on paper.
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
“Starlight.” 8x10” ink & acrylic
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
8x10” ink & acrylic on paper
Drawing of a house on a rock at sea with a figure approaching on foot from a red sailboat
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
Sketches with ink and watercolor
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
I’m finally able to share my cover art for an upcoming picture book I illustrated, “Star and the Maestro” by Thor Hanson! Published by @greenwillowbooks, who I’m very glad to work with again. It’s about Mozart’s pet starling and it’s ability to sing his music. It’s out in September!
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
Drawings for a group coaster art show, 2021
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Lookouts. Ink/watercolor
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
Gouache on paper
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
Houses
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Matt Schu @mattschu.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
Three cats on a roof
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