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Bruce Mackay

@brucemackay.bsky.social

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Painter, Printmaker, Illustrator & Creative Director. Posting personal work, experiments & weak jokes. He/Him

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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hi #PortfolioDay

Im Bruce, an illustrator, creative director & printmaker based in Cape Town, RSA. Big fan of old goofy SFF covers & forced perspective. My digital work is heavily influenced by gouache, printmaking & sculpture.

ILLO: www.instagram.com/bad_manifesto
FA: www.instagram.com/oombruce

Illustration of a bunch of little guys. heavily influenced by Richard Scarry books. Overlapping textured colours.

Digital illustration of a quiet lane. Overlapping blue and orange. Lots of stonework and shadow.

Illustration of the Lord OF The Rings cover. A Nazgûl sits astride its horse between 2 red trees that make a circle. Int he background is Weathertop, the Misty Mountains and Orodruin. Overlapping risk colours - red, teal and yellow.

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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 6d

Thinking about my friend's dad who was on some of the posters for our city's covid vaccine campaign and when I asked him if the Facebook commenters bother him his answer was "No! People are idiots." Words to live by.

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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 17h

WIP #Tolktober25

Work in progress illustration featuring the Witch King of Angmar astride his fell beast. The Mountains of Mordor in the background. Sky lit by Orodruin's eruptions. The guys are sitting on a ruined citadel dome. Some unfinished orc and rubble silhouettes are all around the base of the citadel. LOTR

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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 10h

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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 1d

#Tolktober Day 7 Galadriel.

Illustrated postage stamp of Galadriel of Lothlórien. Pouring magic water into a magic basin so she can spy on her old boyfriend/sidepiece. Overlapping orange and teal.

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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 14h

Damn girl, are you ConAir (1997)? Cause you've mostly aged pretty well.

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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 1d

In my “if the fruit has a seed I will plant it and hope for the best” era.

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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 17h

WIP #Tolktober25

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alexia winterhalter @alexiawinterhalter.bsky.social · 3d

#peachtober 02. kite
this one was probably inspired by magritte!

#peachtober25 #peachtober25kite

a white bird shaped kite in a pink sky, with foliage on the foreground

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 1d

"Well if you didn't want me to send you fake videos of your dead father you could have just said so before without embarrassing me like this."

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Evangeline “I’m Scared” Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social · 1d

Friends I am looking for work!

Book covers, album art, posters, private commissions, TTRPG projects (👀), editorial, you name it

Send me an email!

✉️ [email protected]

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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 1d

TBH, "You cant put the toothpaste back in the tube” doesnt really work as an analogy because like that's a skill issue bro.

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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 1d

#Tolktober Day 7 Galadriel.

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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 1d

TBH, "You cant put the toothpaste back in the tube” doesnt really work as an analogy because like that's a skill issue bro.

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Scoobtoobins @scoobtoobins.bsky.social · 1d

#Tolktober Day 7 Galadriel piece #2.
Go on my page to see the first Galadriel piece I made.
Thank you @rogueprintco.bsky.social for having me this year. 🙏🖤

Made with archival ink on paper. Both originals are available in my shop. Links in my bio.

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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 1d

"Well if you didn't want me to send you fake videos of your dead father you could have just said so before without embarrassing me like this."

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love & barley 🐸🌶️🪏🎃 @loveandbarley.bsky.social · 2d

give greta thunberg a gundam

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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 8d

MONOMONDAY 37&38/52
Oil on felt monoprints. Replicas of some old instax photos I took of my favorite bridge in Hong Kong. 8.5x5.5cm. #printmaking

Photograph of 2 tiny monoprints. Greyscale oil based prints on paper. Images are from underneath a big bridge in Hong Kong. Prints are sitting on a water damaged wood veneer surface.

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Scoobtoobins @scoobtoobins.bsky.social · 1d

#Tolktober Day 7: Galadriel
Super excited to participate in tolktober this year. This piece is also my Oct Patreon exclusive print. So join my print tier and get Galadriel in the mail.
I made a second piece and I will post it in a couple of hours.
@rogueprintco.bsky.social

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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 1d

Im not being philosophical here, Ive got a pomelo sapling in a pot from doing this.

Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 1d

In my “if the fruit has a seed I will plant it and hope for the best” era.

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Anna of Thistle Moon @thistlemoon.bsky.social · 2d

Do you love Tolkien? Do you love Tolkien fans who make art showing how much they love Tolkien? Pick up a zine!!! 🥹🥹 Cover art by yours truly
@rogueprintco.bsky.social
roguescreenprint.bigcartel.com/product/copy...

A mock up of the A Middle Earth Volume 3 zine

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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 2d

Show me how you draw armour!

Illustration of a goblin with a wicked blade and a skull impaired on his shoulder plate.

Illustration of Boromir. White tree shield. He's standing with one foot on a goblin head. Chain Maile and half helm. orange and teal.

Goblin on cliffside. acid green. and orange. chain maile with shoulder plate and arm guards. and a helmet with spikes.

Sea themed guy. octopus helmet with eyeholes made by tentacles. Shell breastplate and shoulder/knee joints. Chain mail.

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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 2d

Me, slamming the hood/bonnet of my car that has broken down twice this month: "You goddamned piece of shit rust bucket!"

Some lady on bluesky: "Hmmm, 🤔 some of the terms you just used on an inanimate object show you have an inherent need to say racial slurs."

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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 2d

MONOMONDAY 39/52
White Poppies.
Oil based monotype | 126x100mm

Fiddling with thinners on the oils and loving the textures I’m getting.
#printmaking

Photo of an oil based monoprint of 2 white poppies in greyscale. Paper is sitting on a wooden surface.

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