Weird Ink Drawings
Getting back into obsessive ink drawing. High flow acrylic was also used.
Painting, Paintings, Paintings
Paintings, paintings, paintings! I told you I was painting! They just aren’t the paintings I was referring to in my last post. Those paintings are in a sketchbook. I’m not sure if I will share them here. If I do it will probably be a while.
In other news, I signed up for a two month long pottery course. It begins in less than two weeks time. I intend to post progress photos and such on here — so if you have some sort of aversion to ceramics, beware.
What else? Oh, and the paintings above are gouache and acrylic. I used a dip pen with fluid black acrylic paint for the lines — without a ruler, so the lines are a little wonky. Does the wonkiness bother me? Yes, slightly. But I’m trying to be less obsessive, perfectionistic, etc. etc.
I’m probably going to use a ruler for the next batch of paintings.
Ok, bye. Thanks for reading.
Madeline
Real Ink
Wow. March — what a rollercoaster. A lot happened. A lot didn’t happen. But you’re not here for an anxiety recap. You’re here for new art. I assume.
In March I dusted off my dip pen (nib pen?) and inkwells and actually drew on paper (not that I haven’t drawn on paper in recent times, but it has mostly been for sketching purposes). Over 30 times to boot! The drawings below are, again, not in chronological order. The physical drawings are roughly the size of playing cards, and I kept shuffling them as if they actually were. It was fun.
I also started painting again, mostly in a sketchbook that I bought years ago, used three pages of, and had abandoned. But I haven’t scanned any of these paintings so you will not see them here. I forgot how annoying scanning is — though leaving drawings that need scanning to pile up to 30 plus pieces before doing so was probably the main source of annoyance here.
Anyway, thanks for reading! This year is flying (and dragging), let’s all try to enjoy what is left of April — which is seemingly a lot, but probably not enough.
—Madeline
Not Enough Flowers
Hello, hello!
Over the month of February 2023 I finished the following spot illustrations! They are all personal pieces — made for fun — and are an exploration of fashion, costumery, geometry, sculpture, and florals. The florals are a bit subtle, I know.
I want to continue this series throughout the year (if not this series, one similar). I would also like to expand the series by branching out into different mediums. These were all made digitally in Procreate, but I would like to start experimenting with printmaking, sculpture materials (clay, wood, etc.), plain old pen, ink, and paper, and other things I’ve been missing lately.
Perhaps my digital drawings will be guides for more tactile work. We’ll see. I’ll keep you posted.
Anyway, the illustrations below are definitely not presented in chronological order — but they were posted in order over on my instagram though you’ll have to work backward and scroll down to see the first in the series … you know how social media works.
Ok, thanks for reading! Enjoy the drawings! Talk to you soon.
Madeline
Society of Illustrators 65 Annual Exhibit and Book Selected Illustration
I’m very excited to share that my illustration, “Dream Job” was selected to be a part of The Society of Illustrators 65 Annual Exhibit and Book. “Dream Job” is an uncommissioned illustration about overwork, stress, and burnout in the workplace.
It will be on view at The Society of Illustrators in NYC from 11 January through 11 February 2023.
This is my first time being selected to be featured in the Illustrators Annual. Many, many thanks to the judges, and to everyone at The Society for putting the show and book together!
Creative Quarterly 63
Very excited to announce that this illustration series of mine was named a Runner-up in Creative Quarterly 63! They will be published in Creative Quarterly’s online gallery in summer 2021.
To see the full list of winners click here
The Believer Magazine February/March Featured Artist
Very excited to announce that I am the Featured Artist in the February/March 2021 Issue of The Believer magazine! In this series of eight illustrations I chose to explore “unknown paths.”
If you’d like to order a copy you can do so here: https://believermag.com/product/february-march-2021/
Quarantine Drawings Part 23
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Quarantine Drawings Part 21 - Year 2021
Happy New Year! Quarantine Drawings are still a thing in 2021…
