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Marcus McAllister

@marcusmcallister.bsky.social

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Artist 🇫🇷🇺🇸 From Little Rock to Paris @marcus.mcallister.artist on IG Sketchbooks and paintings/ birds, stags, knights and symbols/ sometimes Grom the dachshund studio buddy and some D&D and heroic fantasy

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Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · 1d

Marcus McAllister
“Il franchit le seuil”
2025 - acrylic and crayon on paper - 50x32cm

#painting #contemporarypainting #skull #knight

A Knight drawn in grey on a blue background. A large haloed skull floats before the fighter

Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks! I finished the painting over a month ago but it only finally whispered its name over the weekend ☺️

Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · 4d

Marcus McAllister
“Invitation” - 2025 - acrylic on canvas - 41x27cm

#painting #contemporarypainting
#antlers #stag #SciArt

Acrylic painting of a glowing stag emerging from the twilight, antlers figured by bright open hands under three small gold lights

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Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · 13d

Marcus McAllister
“Recevoir” - 2025 - acrylic on canvas - 65x50cm

#painting #contemporarypainting
#workonpaper #bird #SciArt

Acrylic painting of a songbird perched on an open hand holding blue ovals on a dark green background

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Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · 16d

Marcus McAllister
“Adrift in the aether”
2025 - acrylic on paper - 50x32cm

#painting #contemporarypainting #skull

Acrylic painting in red: 2 skulls in their Magic circles, over them glowing branches stretch from a mandala

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Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · 19d

Marcus McAllister
”Espérance“
2025 - acrylic on canvas - 35x24cm

#painting #contemporarypainting #bird #skull

Acrylic painting in green and yellow: a bird perched on a skull in front of of a pattern of circles with a glow around the bird’s head

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Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · 21d

Marcus McAllister
”Sifting through answers“
2025 - acrylic on paper - 50x32cm

#painting #contemporarypainting #SciArt #bird #skull

Acrylic painting in dark purples, a songbird flies down towards a skull surrounded by stylized flowers

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Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · 22d

Marcus McAllister
”A seed planted“
2025 - acrylic on paper - 50x32cm

#painting #contemporarypainting #SciArt #bird #skull

Acrylic painting: a flying bird laying a circlet on a skull, in tones of red on a dark green patterned background

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Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · 23d

Marcus McAllister
“A sa place” - 2025 - acrylic on paper - 65x50cm

#painting #contemporarypainting
#workonpaper #bird #SciArt

Blue acrylic painting of a songbird landing on a glowing filigree orb

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Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · 25d

Marcus McAllister
“Sublimer la crainte” - 2025 - acrylic on paper - 61x38cm

#painting #contemporarypainting
#workonpaper #bird #SciArt

Acrylic painting in blue, turquoise and red-grey: a songbird perched on two open hands before a vegetal background

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Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · 27d

Marcus McAllister
“Dissolution de l’ego” - 2025 - acrylic and charcoal on paper - 100x65cm

#painting #contemporarypainting
#workonpaper #skull

Charcoal rendering of a bird in flight and a skull on a red acrylic background, in the foreground gold ferns and from a floral symbol on the skull’s forehead swarm pale blue lozenges

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Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · Sep 18

Marcus McAllister
“Releasing wisdom” - 2025 - acrylic and charcoal on paper - 100x65cm

#painting #contemporarypainting
#workonpaper #skull

Charcoal rendering of two hands holding a skull in a magic circle, behind a painted flock of bird-shaped auras flying upwards

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Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · Sep 15

Are you even allowed to play a non-paladin? 🙃

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Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · Sep 14

Marcus McAllister
“Hope over fear” - 2025 - acrylic and pastel on paper - 36x30cm

#painting #contemporarypainting
#workonpaper #SciArt #bird #skull

A small songbird standing atop a skull and inspecting a constellation, in front of a pale orange halo and done in blue green acrylic

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Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · Sep 11

Marcus McAllister
“Latence” - 2025 - acrylic on paper - 65x43cm

#painting #contemporarypainting
#workonpaper

Acrylic on paper: a kneeling boy in red holding a sword, in a protected space under a large lotus, on a purple grey background full of falling droplets

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Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · Sep 10

Marcus McAllister
“Releasing internal barriers” - 2025 - acrylic and pastel on paper - 65x43cm

#painting #contemporarypainting
#workonpaper

Grey and red drawing of a bearded man seated in water, knees drawn to his chest. A red symbol between his shoulders emits pales concentric rings

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Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · Sep 8

Marcus McAllister
“Reminder” - 2025 - acrylic on paper - 65x43cm

#painting #contemporarypainting
#workonpaper

Painting of an antlered deer skull on a grey green background

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Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thanks!

Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thanks, Ann! I caught my partner Léo in his favorite reading position ☺️

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Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · Sep 7

Marcus McAllister
“Le moment venu” - 2025 - acrylic on paper - 65x43cm

#painting #contemporarypainting
#workonpaper #SciArt

A semi-transparent stag in blue and white on a blue patterned background, a blue-white mandala hanging between its antlers

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Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is great

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Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · Sep 4

Marcus McAllister
”SB145.01 pockets of psychic energy” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

#sketchbook #drawing

Sketchbook drawing: a hand outstretched in red on an orange background, under a glowing pale blue circle and three red birds

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Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · Sep 3

Marcus McAllister
”SB145.31 position préférée” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

#sketchbook #drawing

Ink sketchbook drawing of a bearded mn reading on a couch, under red orange symbols in watercolor

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Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · Sep 1

Marcus McAllister
”SB145.38 source of meaning” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

#sketchbook #drawing

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Marcus McAllister @marcusmcallister.bsky.social · Aug 30

Marcus McAllister
”SB145.3 sidération” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

#sketchbook #drawing

Sketchbook drawing: a young bearded man raises his head, from which flies a bird, all of this surrounded by red violet rays

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