Madalyn McLeod

Graphic showing the progress of my art zines. Each one represents a different element and has its own colors. Water: blue, earth: green, wind: purple, fire: red, aether: any/all including black and white. Aether will represent aspects of nature outside our atmosphere, like celestial bodies. Each one will have 8 illustrations, and almost half of them are finished.

I'm working on a collection of zines about nature spirits! Each one is inspired by a different element: water, earth, wind, fire, and aether. #art

This has been a big problem as I work on my current nature spirit series, because the illustrations are small, so my line quality really matters. Now I feel better about continuing.

Postcard print of Naiad & Dryad lovers standing waist deep in a lily pond, holding hands. Watercolor & colored pencil.

Little Red Riding Hood Print. OG made with ink and watercolor. Little Red Riding Hood walks through a winter forest, and there is a huge, black wolf just behind her.

Lady of the Ivy sticker. Antlered druid portrait with an ivy crown.

Two postcard prints. One is the moon & the other is the sun. 'Reflection' & 'Clarity'. 'Reflection' shows the moon with a face looking down into the water reflections, with swirling clouds all around in a very dark sky. 'Clarity' shows the sun looking directly at the viewer, with swirling clouds just below. There are spectacular colors & surreal lines coming from the sun that look a little like stained glass aesthetic. Both OGs were made with colored pencil & watercolor & gouache.

Btw I moved my online shop from Etsy to Kofi!

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Thanks! 😁

QTP with women ❤️‍🔥
Happy Women's Day!! ⚔️💫

Never taking these things for granted again. Thank you!

Recovering from a shoulder injury & being able to do the simplest things again is a huge relief. I’ve been having to use an electric pencil sharpener for so long, & haven’t been able to get as fine a point as I like, but finally I can use my favorite manual sharpener again.

Friendly reminder that you don't always need to bring quiet people "out of themselves" or try to get them to "loosen up" at social gatherings, some of us are just naturally a bit more reserved and introverted and silently plotting the downfall of our enemies and that's okay 💖

a painting of two women sitting on a bench outside in front of a window, with flowers and a tree around them. there's soft dappled lighting, and they're about to kiss

and they were roommates 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🌾

one of my favorite moments of TNG is when Picard is immediately unable to contain his horse autism

QTP with women ❤️‍🔥
Happy Women's Day!! ⚔️💫

Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how you’re not a slaver.

Actually I’m not sure I’ve drawn them in a seductive way even once.

Ink drawing of 3 nymphs in a pond looking at you with distaste.

I draw nymphs a lot, but usually not in a seductive way. My nymphs are like "I'm just trying to sing a song with my friends, IN MY OWN HOME." They don't understand why men keep showing up & assuming it's for them.

Happy international women's day to all women tall or short, thick or thin, cis or trans! #iwd #international #womens #day

Here I am with another watercolor tip no one asked for:
Your painting likely will look ugly at some point in the process, and that's natural! This medium is built for layering. Just trust the process and proceed. The end result will surprise you.

Anyway, new art later 👀

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

POV you’re me trying to start PT while a cute tuxedo cat lays belly up on the ground, staring. He clearly thinks I should stop what I’m doing & pet him.

POV you’re still me trying to do PT & the same cat is still intently staring. He places a paw on the PT tools you’re trying to use, as if to say “no mom, you don’t need that.” (I should pet him instead.)

I have to do a lot of physical therapy exercises & he’s always on a mission to stop me.

Beautiful summer day at a lily pad covered lake, with green trees & blue sky.

Gray winter day at the lake. The lake is ice. This looks like a black and white photo, but it’s not.

Summer & Winter at the lake. Guess which I prefer.

It’s so adorable 😂

POV you’re me trying to start PT while a cute tuxedo cat lays belly up on the ground, staring. He clearly thinks I should stop what I’m doing & pet him.

POV you’re still me trying to do PT & the same cat is still intently staring. He places a paw on the PT tools you’re trying to use, as if to say “no mom, you don’t need that.” (I should pet him instead.)

I have to do a lot of physical therapy exercises & he’s always on a mission to stop me.

Here is a charcoal artwork of a lynx I just finished. It turned out so well! Of course, lynx are such beautiful cats they make anything look good!

The piece is now up for sale on Ebay.

#art #traditionalart #charcoalart #sciart #lynxart #cats.

The open contempt that bluesky staff seems to have for is users is frustrating, any sort of concern is met with insular chuckling

Yesterday they were discussing openly how bluesky- which has suffered a lot of glitches in the last month's- is vibecoded by Claude, a rebranded version of chatGPT

It’s very edgy & I’m just not really impressed.

It’s a great place to be in summer 🖤

My North Carolinian ass wasn’t made for this kind of winter lol I’m dying.

Beautiful summer day at a lily pad covered lake, with green trees & blue sky.

Gray winter day at the lake. The lake is ice. This looks like a black and white photo, but it’s not.

Summer & Winter at the lake. Guess which I prefer.

'Potential'. A dryad holding a magnolia in front of the night sky. She looks very much like a tree, and she has dark eyes and a hopeful expression. Made with colored pencil and green and brown watercolors.

'Death'. A woman in a romantic dress lies dead on the autumn forest floor, and a crown of white mushrooms grows on her head. Made with colored pencil and watercolors in yellow, brown, and green.

'Life'. A willow fae looks directly at the viewer. Her long green hair is covered with buttercups and butterflies, and white abstracted line art representing their growth, life, and movement. Made with colored pencil, yellow and green watercolor, and white ink.

'Dream'. A naiad in profile underwater, with swirling weeds all around. She looks very much like water, is transparent, and has white line art in her hair that looks like the movement of water. Made with colored pencil, blue and green watercolor, and white ink.

Hi, I'm a mixed media traditional artist based in the US, and I'm inspired by nature, folklore, and fantasy. ✨

A shallow creek running through a pine forest with several colourful foliage

A Creek in the Woods

Postcard print of Naiad & Dryad lovers standing waist deep in a lily pond, holding hands. Watercolor & colored pencil.

Little Red Riding Hood Print. OG made with ink and watercolor. Little Red Riding Hood walks through a winter forest, and there is a huge, black wolf just behind her.

Lady of the Ivy sticker. Antlered druid portrait with an ivy crown.

Two postcard prints. One is the moon & the other is the sun. 'Reflection' & 'Clarity'. 'Reflection' shows the moon with a face looking down into the water reflections, with swirling clouds all around in a very dark sky. 'Clarity' shows the sun looking directly at the viewer, with swirling clouds just below. There are spectacular colors & surreal lines coming from the sun that look a little like stained glass aesthetic. Both OGs were made with colored pencil & watercolor & gouache.

Btw I moved my online shop from Etsy to Kofi!

ko-fi.com/madalynmcleo...