growing up is realizing that both politics and individual morality are not as complicated as they seem when people with ulterior motives are intentionally complicating them.

Big Stretch #art

Heralding something new 🍂🔔 #illustration #watercolor #gouache #forestart

Since I haven’t been able to draw for a while, I’m getting warmed up with something familiar. This is my druid character Lady of the Ivy.

My partner is suddenly out a job. 😟 And I still can't work... so anything helps. ko-fi.com/madalynmcleod

My partner is suddenly out a job. 😟 And I still can't work... so anything helps. ko-fi.com/madalynmcleod

Soot Sprites

oh no

Happy winter solstice to all; from this day onward the light only grows. #death #rebirth #art #cat #wolf #linocut #digitalart

Happy Winter Solstice May the new sun welcome you against the long night #dragons #watercolor #painting #art

Soot Sprites

#SolsticeBlessings #WinterSolstice #WhenBeastsSpoke

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

#CoolArt: 'Fancy Cat' Original Art by @madalynmcleod.bsky.social through @everydayoriginal.bsky.social geekynerfherder.blogspot.com/2025/12/cool...

Peril Wyrm #wyrm #dragon #dragonlove #dragonart #throwbackthursday #painting #watercolour

If a client handed me something like this I'll love them from the rest of my life bc it's more useful than you think

I just want to disappear into the woods.

Tiny wildlife art.

✨🕯️ Here in our dark house, walking with lit candles in her hair, comes Santa Lucia 🕯️✨

Reminder that there are oracle prints on my Patreon. As I've been disabled for some time, the support I get here means a lot. This is the print menu for Dec. www.patreon.com/artbymadalynmcleod

artists, QRP with your faces!

Fancy Cat coming to @everydayoriginal.bsky.social Dec 15th

artists, QRP with your faces!

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

This entire weekend

✨ qrp with some pieces from 2025 that you're really proud of! ✨ They were mostly done in 2024 but I added some finishing touches in 2025. Hopefully in 2026 I'll be able to do more.

Ableism makes you think you will be the exception. Disability won’t happen to you. You’re “better than that”. You’re “stronger”. You will succeed where the rest of us failed. It’s not true. Disability can & does happen to almost everyone. It’s not a moral failing.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 12! The same big old gnarly cherry tree as yesterday, from a different angle! (This tree has no bad angles!) Plein air gouache study at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Here are some nice mushrooms

✨ qrp with some pieces from 2025 that you're really proud of! ✨ They were mostly done in 2024 but I added some finishing touches in 2025. Hopefully in 2026 I'll be able to do more.

I think people should be pretty angry that a handful of men unilaterally decided culture, art and civilization should be fed into a woodchipper so they could attract VC funding.

Fascists love nothing more than sending troops into famously cold regions as winter sets in.

Home for the holidays

I have committed Back Crime by slightly shifting my weight while giving someone a hug. Scoliosis will not let me walk again until I’ve paid for what I’ve done.

Yes! Ideally I’d like to not have to think about money at all with my art, but we need money to live & our labor has value so.

Adorable

Yes! Ideally I’d like to not have to think about money at all with my art, but we need money to live & our labor has value so.

Day 10 of #ArtAdventCalendar- a painting of a Purple-shot Copper #butterfly. Done by hand in #Procreate with an Apple Pencil. 🐡 #insects #art #digitalPainting #nature #illustration #HumanMadeArt #HumanNotAI

Reminder that there are oracle prints on my Patreon. As I've been disabled for some time, the support I get here means a lot. This is the print menu for Dec. www.patreon.com/artbymadalynmcleod

Tiny wildlife art.

People make all kinds of wild assumptions.

That feeling when you realize you’re in a dream 💭

Goddess of Night ✨

Moth faery ✨✨✨

Good

My vet loved my shirt today - it's this anti-declawing shirt by @crits4cats.org! streamlabs.com/crits4cats/m...

I am brimming with holiday spirit