Check out this fun picture book featured in our summer boxes! PEANUT GOES FOR THE GOLD (HarperCollins), by Queer Eye's Jonathan Van Ness and illustrated by Gillian Reid, about Peanut, a nonbinary guinea pig, who can do anything they put their mind to—even becoming a rhythmic gymnast!

18 | Wreckage + Some Kinda Blue: I picked my own colour today! I like working with blues best! This little mermaid is exploring the deeps of a recent wreckage! #mermay #mermay 2020 #wacommermay #wacommermay 2020 #mermay wreckage #anchor #deepseacreatures #blue #illustration #sketch

16 | Deity + Process Blue: Kali the goddess of death, time, and doomsday and is also considered a strong mother-figure and symbolic of motherly-love!
#mermay #mermay 2020 #pantonemermay #processblue #blue #wacommermay

15 | Radiant Yellow + Rescue: sometimes another person can rescue you without all the drama and special effects.
#mermay #mermay 2020 #pantonemermay #wacommermay2020 #radiantyellow #mellowyellow #rescue #catchup

4 | Neptune Green + Adrift: can mermaids really be adrift?
#mermay #mermay 2020 #pantonemermay #wacommermay2020 #neptunegreen #adrift

13 | Ultramarine Green + Alien:
Word prompt was ‘Alien’ so I was looking for a colour that would match my Creature Of The Black Lagoon idea. Look at the lips on this thing!
#mermay #mermay 2020 #pantonemermay #wacommermay2020 #creatureoftheblacklagoon #seacreatures #monstergirls

12 | Barbados cherry + Fury: Ive been enjoying the Pantone prompts but some of the colours were too cutesy for me and are kinda similar to other colours. Instead, I’m going to choose my own Pantone colours!
#mermay2020 #pantonemermay #wacommermay2020 #hotnips

10 | Mauveglow + Ashamed: Sorry for the downer today. I don’t usually draw sad things but today’s prompt is ‘ashamed’, hard to make that fun and cheery!
#mermay #mermay 2020 #pantone mermay #wacommermay2020 #mauveglow #pantone #ashamed #emotions #itsnotyourfault #sundaythoughts

09 | Apricot + Best Buddies! I imagine these two as a pair of bridesmaids to a bridezilla who made them wear horrible orange dresses!
#mermay #mermay 2020 #pantonemermay #wacommermay2020 #bestfriends #BFF #friendslove #friendship #bridesmaidsdresses #apricot #characterillustration

08 | Lemon Zest + Heroic: When life gives you lemons, you draw @beyonce ! Her iconic look from the Hold Up video, where she is strutting like the hero she is!
#mermay #mermay 2020 #pantonemermay #wacommermay #lemonzest #beyonceknowles #holdup #lemonade #whenlifegivesyoulemons

🐹🤸 “the story of a non-binary guinea pig with a love of rhythmic gymnastics!”

Read about Jonathan Van Ness’s new kids’ book ‘Peanut Goes For The Gold’; art by Gillian Reid 👏

🗣 “I’ve always been obsessed with gymnastics!”

✍️ Kerri-Ann Roper, PA Media via Belfast Telegraph 👉 m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/…

TODAY!!! At 7pm EST! Be there or be square!

Tomorrow at 10 am PST/1pm EST, Cale Atkinson will read his picture book, Unicorns 101, on Instagram Live! bit.ly/2ZbNy2K

06 | Aqua Sky + Tsunami: this gave me visions of a water God!

Face on this mermaid is inspired by #TheWilloughbys kids!

Thanks to Matthew Timms for help with the water fx! #mermay2020 #mermaids #mermaids tyle #tsunamiwaves #illustrator #sketch #character #design

Here we go - some Frostheart sketches!

I'll start where most readers do...with the cover. There were...quite a few ideas for the cover. Here they are! Some of them I still really like, but I'm super happy with the direction we went in
PuffinBooks #Frostheart #conceptart

retweeting from the new group account from oats but DANG for anyone who wants some great character design inspo live from one of my fav designers then mark this time and date for this upcoming week ! TY to Gillian Reid for our great new graphics we can use for these posts!

05 | Viridian Green + Royalty: My go to royal is always Marie Antoinette! Technically she never said ‘Let Them Eat Cake’ but it’s what I live my life by…

#mermay #mermay 2020 #viridiangreen #pantone #royalstyle #letthemeatcake #marieantoinette #cakestyle #characterdesign

04 / Lapis Blue + Star Wars: May the Forth be with you my friends!

#mermay #mermay 2020 #mermaids #maythe4thbewithyou #maytheforcebewithyou #may4th #rey #starwars #starwars fanart #fanart #lapisblue #pantone #kidlitart #disney #jedi #instagood #gillianimation

03 / Ultraviolet + Sunset: this was me this weekend when the sun in Ottawa was shining bright and it reached over 20 degrees! ☀️
#mermay #mermay 2020 #ultraviolet #sunset #summer #lazydays #illustration #purple #sundayvibes

02 / vivacious + warrior: so the colour wasn’t enough of a prompt for me so I’ve joined 2 prompt lists! #mermay #mermay 2020 #vivacious #warrior #underthesea #illustration #kidlit #childrensillustration #fantasyart