#kidlitartpostcard
Here’s my #kidlitartpostcard I write and illustrate all sorts of books - with a mostly whimsical tone. My website is johnnez.com and lots more art here: linktr.ee/johnnez
I’m quick, friendly and very efficient with Indesign bookmaking skills - real & digital & mixed.
04.12.2025 21:11
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It happened when the finish copies of my book about Twins was published and released. I had never seen a finished copy yet… but then the publisher mailed the package to a strange & incorrect address… about 4 blocks downhill from me.
continued on johnnez.substack.com
13.11.2025 18:43
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I write and illustrate all sorts of books.
My art is at linktr.ee/johnnez
I’m quick, friendly and efficient.
Just email me if you see anything you like... thanks!
02.10.2025 15:57
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Here's a closeup. It's a lot of fun having an ebike... last year, I have to say, I went every day when it wasn't actually raining downpours.
01.09.2025 20:38
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Got my new CityRun... and here I am putting it together, down in the basement! Yay! Some crook stole my bicycle last week... but now I have an even better replacement... so there!
Soon those long agony uphill pedals will be like gliding downhill!
01.09.2025 20:35
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I belong to that group of user who are digitally disabled... there are so many things that it's not worth my while to even try.
These were some of my first sketches... ink on newsprint.
I just taught myself to draw... art school didn't help.
It was more fun to just do it myself...
20.08.2025 17:25
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That would be ideal if I could turn off the 2fa... but I see the choices are to just add more to an email.
So that doesn't work.
But when I come upstairs to the desktop, I can use bluesky.
I remember when I first tried to sign on, it took me months to get on.
20.08.2025 17:15
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The message is for me to reply to their my phone... which is broken.
I hate my phone... but I got my spouse's old iPhone and I still haven't even bothered how to use it.
I hate how bluesky cuts off my typing... so Facebook works a lot better.
18.08.2025 18:48
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Nope... problem is my telephone broke. And it has been hell trying to patch back in... since the Bluesky is also not helping. And since they cut off my typing at like 25 characters, it's useless.
But it works on the desktop.
18.08.2025 18:47
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Since I can't get Bluesky to sign me in on my iPad, I probably only see it when I'm on the desktop... which is sort of rarely.
I wonder why Facebook seems to work better than all the other apps for social media?
18.08.2025 15:29
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Here’s my #kidlitartpostcard #… I write and illustrate all sorts of books - with a mostly whimsical tone. My website is johnnez.com and lots more art here: linktr.ee/johnnez
New email is john.nez@icloud.com
#kidlitillustration #kidlitartist #picturebook
07.08.2025 17:10
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#kidlitartpostcard
At last, it's my #kidlitartpostcard
I write and illustrate all sorts of books.
My art is at linktr.ee/johnnez
I’m quick, friendly and efficient.
03.07.2025 18:31
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Or how about ‘Make A.I. Illegal… with prison sentences for publishers that use it.’
25.06.2025 15:47
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I always forget to turn off the sound… so those weird noises are just me!
And the last step is to scan the watercolor and then add the digital shading in photoshop. Sure saves a lot of time.
25.06.2025 02:21
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It’s a miracle to be able to post anything to an iPad in a forum… lol! I’m trying to find a photo of the large pile of dummy books of mine… lol!
But here’s my cat watching over a book I started out in WC and finished in photoshop…
historical non-fiction.
And a TRUE story!
25.06.2025 02:16
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Also, I have a whole stack of finished dummy books to send out to publishers. But it’s insulting to only get back a form letter “If we don’t hear back from you in two months, it means we aren’t interested…”
lol! Here’s another sketch from a dummy…
25.06.2025 02:08
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I get excited about just making paintings on canvas and not locking my creativity up with chains & padlocks by waiting for some editor to like it.
Here’s a collection of some of my canvases.
25.06.2025 02:03
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That’s like how the town of Aix hated Van Gogh and signed a 100 person letter demanding he never enter the town again.
Only later, the same people were building relics to cash in on his paintings…
21.06.2025 12:51
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And of course the hand sharpening of charcoal pencil with exacto blades is often what I do. Sometimes it seems they’re the only thing that works.
20.06.2025 00:53
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I find that with many of the softer pencils with charcoal, a hand sharpener is totally required. The hand sharpener can be turned slowly so it doesn’t break the softer leads.
But electric is nice for regular pencils.
18.06.2025 14:45
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That one might be titled:
The Deadline!
18.06.2025 14:41
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That’s good, since we have not seen them work together on hardly anything for years…
It’s all Trump, Trump, Trump until the end of time… and the Media backing them up all the way.
18.06.2025 03:04
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The Bunker Buster in action?
17.06.2025 18:13
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Yes… we need No Kings Autumn if things don’t change.
Then No Kings Winter if they don’t change…
Then No Kings Spring… etc.
16.06.2025 00:09
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Yes and he should be Impeached and arrested and put in PRISON!!!
15.06.2025 17:21
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And I’ll only be happier when it is revealed that he is a Pedophile and that they stole the election with MUSK.
15.06.2025 17:20
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And I wonder if ICE shoved his face onto the concrete and pushed his back, like they do to all the brown people they handle?
15.06.2025 17:19
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Nice turnout on Red Sqare at the UW in Seattle. Lots of protestors from the Vietnam Era. I heard one guy say ‘I’m so used to protesting, it brings it all back’.
‘Stop Being Evil!’ Good slogan and accurate.
14.06.2025 21:50
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Me too! I have never voted for a republican in my life… and I’ve been voting in every election since Nixon.
12.06.2025 22:45
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@annesiemsart.bsky.social
09.06.2025 18:40
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