Weird Ink Drawings

Getting back into obsessive ink drawing. High flow acrylic was also used.

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

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

Quarantine Drawings Part 24

Quarantine Drawings Part 16

These drawings may not be my newest, but they’re all previously unpublished (in this blog)! Wish you’d seen them earlier? Then, follow my Instagram @ madmcmahon where most of these were posted months ago :)

SPOTS

New gallery alert! I’ve added the Spots page to display smaller drawings. Content will be posted and edited regularly.

Below is a sampling of what you can expect—click here to see more!