🎉🎉 GIVEAWAY! 🎉🎉 Let’s have some fun talking about your picture book! PRIZES: 🌟 One picture-book critique (700 words max) 🌟 30-minute AMA phone/video chat TO ENTER: ❤️ Comment ❤️ Retweet Winner announced 4/4/22.

I thought I was a cat/aspired to be a cat when I grew up at this age—would’ve done the exact same thing ❤️

“Oh,” she says, ruffling her feathers. “I don’t have any tips on feathercare; I just woke up like this.”

Hey y’all! In addition to my pb work, I’m now taking custom commissions (and really need to pay for some urgent healthcare/housing situations)—please share this around! I do pet portraits mainly, but also people/scene art, custom made from your photos. lenarivkah.com/paper-cut-port…

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Studying Torah and creating art for Shavuot (in between dairy courses 😉): here’s Milan Hlavsa discovering the Beatles for the first time in 1964 for my new graphic novel project on teenage musicians toppling Soviet rule in Czechoslovakia! #GraphicNovel #YA #kidlit #amquerying

Please be careful y’all: every infection raises your risk for Long Covid and health issues.

I made art constantly as a little kid, lots of life trauma/making 10 year olds into college applicants intervened, and for 25 years, I only occasionally made art. But then I came back to it in 2016 at 31, and not only is my life so much better, my art is good! Art isn’t about age

Note to progressives: All COVID unsafe spaces are inaccessible to disabled people right now. Masking and testing is not hard. the disabled community is watching, so you better not expect them to come thru for your priorities or the Democrats if you’re not gonna show up for them

This time of year always feels like beginnings/endings more than any other for me—so many years of school, the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, a few weeks, and the turn of summer to fall. In honor of that, another of my poetry art pieces, available as prints in my shop now!

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day!  I'm Lena, am artist/illustrator seeking representation. I work in multiple styles, have dummies available, and love illustrating others’ words! instagram.com/lenarivkah lenarivkah.com #kidlit #kidlitart #illustration #childrensbook

#KidLitArtPostcard Hey y’all! My name is Lena, I make PB/graphic novel art in a few different styles, and am in search of representation. lenarivkah.com [email protected] #amquerying #PBArt #Illustrator

Happy #PortfolioDay! I’m looking for representation and love working on picture books, graphic novels for any age, and editorial art!

Check out my piece and the really awesome poem it’s paired with!

#PortfolioDay2023 Hey y’all! I’m Lena, and here are a few illustrations from a book I’m working on—check out my portfolio for more. I’m iso representation and cool #PB, graphic novel, and concept books to work on!

Got two applications in just under the wire (clock literally flipped to midnight right after it sent)! #PBRisingStars *fingers crossed for all of us*

Love Islamic Renaissance history!!