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Madalyn McLeod

@madalynmcleod.bsky.social

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Artist & Illustrator ✨ Queer ✨ Disabled ✨ Nature Lover ✨ Cat Mother ✨ Oracle Deck in Progress ✨ Asheville ➡️ Minneapolis madalynmcleod.com

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Madalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · Apr 8

Hi #portfolioday !

I'm Madalyn, a fantasy artist & illustrator working with traditional media. My art is inspired by folklore, dreams, and nature. Nice to meet you!✨

www.madalynmcleod.com
#fantasyart #oraclecards #fae #watercolor

'Anxiety' for my oracle deck. A naiad that looks very much like water, with half her face hidden beneath the water. Swirling eddies form in front of her face, blending with her hair.

'Sylph'. Traditional art of a wise airy fae flying through a purple moonlit sky with a spirit owl and a lot of green moths. They look ephemeral, and appear to be unraveling as they move through the sky, in a surreal way. There is a spiral pattern in the sky, and in her hair.

'Illusions Lifted'. Mixed media traditional art of a spell being broken, and things are seen as they truly are for the first time. A girl sits in a barren wasteland, holding a small flock of birds close to her, but they fly away and become monsters.

'Potential' for my oracle deck. A dryad that looks very much like a tree, holding a magnolia in front of a twilight sky, with a hopeful expression. Abstracted airy lines swoop upwards, representing potential. Made with colored pencil, watercolor, and a little white gouache.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 3d

Listen. If you didn't want to be seen as the Twitter escape pod, you shouldn't have deliberately fostered a community of people so united by their contempt for arbitrary authority and love of absolute free speech that they were willing to abandon a platform they'd been using for 15 years

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Erin Hanson @erinhansonartist.bsky.social · 2d

Colored light filters through the branches of these Japanese maple trees. The abstract pattern of light and dark looks like filigree.

Autumn Mosaic
Original Oil Painting
by Erin Hanson, 2021
48 x 27 in
www.erinhanson.com/portfolio/au...

#autumn #fallcolor #beauty #natureart #dailyart #oilpainting🎨

Colored light filters through the branches of these Japanese maple trees. The abstract pattern of light and dark looks like filigree. Each brush stroke is thick and impressionistic, adding to the movement of the piece.

"Autumn Mosaic"
Original Oil Painting by Erin Hanson
2021
48 x 27 in
ORIGINAL SOLD
3D Textured Replicas Available
Canvas Prints Available

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Lee Zimmerman @zim2918.bsky.social · 3d

The sky is surreal

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 4d

We did not weather nigh two decades of “lazy millennials are destroying every single industry” to turn around and do this to Gen Z!!!

Fortune @fortune.com · 4d

“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6

Astronaut says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable—here’s the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin training that taught her to push through | Fortune

From space rockets to 13-hour workdays, this millennial astronaut reveals the mind trick that can make discomfort your secret weapon to success.

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Madalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks!

Madalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · 4d

If you see this post a goth or punk girl

Ink drawing portrait of an urban witch with a pigeon familiar. She has an undercut on one side and a pin covered jacket. The pigeon looks grumpy.

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Madalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · 5d

Autumn Queen.

Ink and watercolor piece from 2017. Faery Queen of Autumn. She wears a red dress that looks like leaves, and she has antlers and red berries and leaves in her brown hair. There is a chill wind in the air.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Friday, mongrels.
WIP. Private commission.
Oil and pencil on paper.

Unfinished artwork of a woman’s ghost floating through a redwood forest.

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Madalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · 5d

Sounds like an upgrade to me.

Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 5d

we're not going to have a good, sustainable social media site as long as it is made or run by tech people. that is why I am building my own out of water, small rocks, moss, snails, brightly colored shrimp, one of those sucking fish, a mermaid statue. I'll be honest, this may actually be an aquarium.

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umbra⛧ @umbrapsv.bsky.social · 5d

We are telling you that you have Nazis in your bar and you keep ignoring us. So we get louder thinking that you aren't hearing us, only to yell back some nonsense like waffles.

Either you kick out the Nazis from your bar, or you become a Nazi bar.

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Madalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · 5d

Autumn Queen.

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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · Jul 26

When you strip away humanity

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Jenna DeVillier @jennadevillier.bsky.social · 7d

More character art!! Huge thank you to the amazing @carolinejamhour.bsky.social for this gorgeous painting of Medusa 💚

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you Jane Goodall, for making the world a better place. May we learn by your example.

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Madalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · 7d

Snow off your snake art 🐍

Medusa. Ink & watercolor. She was once human, but has been transformed into a monster. She sits alone in rubble & ruins, having a quiet moment with her curse. Some of the snakes in her hair seem restless. There is one that she's making eye contact with and she tenderly reaches a hand out to it.

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Lark 🍂🐺 Guided by the Wind in Ezo @larkoneironaut.bsky.social · 8d

HAPPY 1ST OF OCTOBER 🎃👻🕸️🦇🌕🌩️🖤🕯️🔮

A fluffy black cat lying on its back, sttetching on a cat tree, seemingly screaming while its eyes reflect the light eerily

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chele @chele23.bsky.social · 7d

trees ablaze with crimson leaves

Bluff Country, MN 📷🌱
October 1, 2025

Trees adorned with red, orange, yellow and green leaves signaling autumn’s arrival.

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Madalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · 7d

Snow off your snake art 🐍

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Madalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · Mar 17

Bad Familiar!

Inktober art of a black cat drinking a spilled potion, on a table covered with potions and spell books. Someone not shown yells "No!"

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Madalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · Dec 19

Witches ✨

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Madalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · 8d

Death 🍂

A woman lies on the forest floor dead, in Autumn. There are mushrooms forming a crown around her head. She wears a romantic dress. Her eyes are open, but unseeing. Watercolor and colored pencil oracle illustration.

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Madalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · 8d

FRONK 😆

(Looks like a great time btw)

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Madalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · 8d

Inkcredible.

Davis Bickford @davis.social · 9d

hey folks 👋 it's easy to overthinktober inktober, but don't let the inkquisitiontober get you down. you're inkredible the way you are—you don't have to drinktober the kool-aid if you don't want to ❤️

Zi @ziqqix.bsky.social · 9d

I have what I believe might be a controversial opinion. And that opinion is that no one is forcing anyone to do inktober just don’t do it if you don’t want to and do it if you want 😭

Madalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · 8d

They look so good all together like this!

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