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Here’s an iPad sketch, combining traditional watercolor with digital. Play time. 🧡#violetlemay

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2021-05-09

I made this self-portrait years ago; it remains a personal fave. 🧡

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2021-04-28

Meow, meow! 💜 Just found this forgotten image in my Dropbox. The file name is "sticker cat." I designed a sticker? Ha, wish I could remember that! Ah, Illustrator Brain.
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2021-04-27

Happy Sunday! Fruit Salad, anyone? 🍌🍓🥝🍈 From the latest issue of High Five.

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2021-04-25

Here's everything you need to make a delicious fruit salad! Find the recipe in the latest issue of High Five. 🍌🍓🥝🍈

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2021-04-24

Sending out love to all of you, and prayers for peace... and for a change. No more gun violence, no more hate.
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2021-03-23

Happy Valentine's Day! Here's an image that I made years ago, when I was an editorial illustrator. Sending you lots of love! 💘
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2021-02-08

A is for AUTHOR. Happy writing, everyone, and happy reading! ✏️📚

Illustration from LIBRARY BABIES, written by my friend Puck.
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2021-01-29

Ode to humidity. Good thing it only rains here.... every day. 😹 Welcome to 🌴☀️☁️💦☔
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Note that when the world has gone bananas, making fun of my crazy hair feels like a safe space.

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2021-01-15

We can't have pets and my baby has flown the nest, so... I've adopted some plant friends. 🌱 Maybe a little weird, but not as concerning as my 2018 "moth phase."
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2021-01-13

Today was the first day back to school; tomorrow will be the last. Back to on-line learning here in Malaysia. 🖥️ Such a shame. Sending out lots of love to teachers and students out there. 🍎
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2021-01-12

Sending out high hopes and best wishes for your 2021. Happy New Year! 🍃👶
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2021-01-01

Out with the old. Bye bye, 2020. 👋
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by for "How a City Works" by D.J. Ward

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2020-12-31

Searching for metaphors to represent the shift from 2020 to 2021 is giving me opportunities to show some less "pretty" art, including this illustration from D.J. Ward's "How a City Works." Time to tidy up.
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2020-12-31

See ya, 2020. 💩
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Art from "NY Dogs," which I wrote and illustrated in 2017.
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2020-12-30

Meow. 🐱
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A kitty from “Artists and Their Pets” by by

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2020-12-30