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Marcus McAllister
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Artist 🇫🇷🇺🇸 From Little Rock to Paris
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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
”SB148.34 between intent and accident” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

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Sketchbook drawing: a man lying on his back, foreshortened, in black ink on blue and purple watercolor, a bird in blue ox descends towards his head, a six-sided pattern of dots is on the right
January 20, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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Marcus McAllister
”SB148.35 use your intuition” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

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Sketchbook drawing in blue bic pen on scream background: a songbird perched on a branch under an abstract constellation. To the left a weave pattern, below right handwritten text
January 17, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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Marcus McAllister
”SB148.38 song of hope” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

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Sketchbook drawing in grey of a small songbird haloed in pale yellow on a blue background, perched on a pyramid of stylized ampersands
January 15, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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Marcus McAllister
”SB148.37 sing the song” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

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Ink drawing of a songbird in front of knight holding up a sword, all but the bird tinted in yellow and gold
January 14, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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Marcus McAllister
”SB148.27 always a good idea” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

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Sketchbook drawing of a songbird in green yellow and brown, perched on an ink mandala
January 12, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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Marcus McAllister
”SB148.31 questions without easy answers” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

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Sketchbook drawing of a bearded man looking over his shoulder, gesturing towards a lion in green and blue on a yellow background
January 10, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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Marcus McAllister
”SB148.32 habilité et expérience” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

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Ink drawing of two falcons on a brown-gold and rose background, with inked handwriting and geometric shapes
January 9, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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Marcus McAllister
”SB148.20 made new” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

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Sketchbook drawing of a grey serpent crowned with a red lunar crescent on a pale yellow background. To the left a typographical sigil and above handwritten text
January 7, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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Today marks 30 years of my arrival in France!

This is my only photo of me in the tiny Parisian chambre de bonne that I occupied in 1996
A young man in a White sweatshirt and jeans in a small Parisian apartment, 1996
January 6, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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Marcus McAllister
”SB148.21 until I see beyond” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

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Sketchbook drawing in brown and grey watercolor, nude man with an aureole sitting tailor fashion, attaching or removing a grill/mask, below are blocks of handwriting
January 5, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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Marcus McAllister
”SB148.20 hidden charms” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

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Ink drawing of a woman seated with eyes closed, on pale blue and brown, under moon sigil and with a gold orb on her lap
January 3, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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My Sketchbook reminds me how much my partner Léo loves to nap!

Both pages from the current Sketchbook n°149
A sleeping bearded man in red ballpoint on an ochre background surrounded by black ink sketches and writing Blue and purple sketchbook drawing of a bearded man sleeping on a couch with an open book on his chest
January 2, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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The end of this year is upon us—joyeuse fête de fin d’année !

Marcus McAllister
”SB148.34 une quête subtile et lumineuse” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

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Sketchbook drawing: silhouette of a man, head raised to a star and superimposed sur a walking canine. A column of handwritten text runs the right half of the page
December 31, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Marcus McAllister
”SB148.09 storyteller” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

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Drawing of a man perched on a stool with a headdress and holding a purple veil with a skull
December 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Marcus McAllister
”SB148.26 mixed bag” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

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Sketchbook drawing of a inked stag on blue emerging from behind a mandala under a flow of white geometric forms
December 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Marcus McAllister
”SB148.05 de grand coeur” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

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Sketchbook drawing: sur fond jaune a bearded man in red on the bottom left, gaze elevated emitting a white rayon. Above, filigrane mandala with a wheel of eyes
December 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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A drawing of my 10-year-old wire-haired dachshund Grom 💜

Marcus McAllister
”SB148.21 studio buddy” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

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Ink drawing of a wirehaired dachshund on a watercolor background
December 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Marcus McAllister
”SB148.03 un nouveau passage vers” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

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Sketchbook drawing of a running antlered stag in colored pencil crossing a sinuous multicolored veil
December 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Here is my Sketchbook n°146, much of which was done while visiting Baton Rouge and Little Rock, USA this summer

Sketchbook nº146 (31 May - 21 July 2025: wander far in safety)
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December 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Marcus McAllister
”SB147.16 the courage to enter deeply” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

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Watercolor drawing: a haloed woman holding sandals, over concentric zones blue, orange grey, with veils pff bright green
December 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Marcus McAllister
”SB147.35 ready to bloom” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

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Watercolor drawing of a small crowned songbird, beak open on a blue-grey background decorated with volutes
December 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Marcus McAllister
”SB147.29 temps fugit” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

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Sketchbook drawing: a man’s head against a wall under a blue and red pattern of dots and concentric circles
December 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Marcus McAllister
”SB147.28 guérisseur” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

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Sketchbook drawing: a man in awhile shirt drawn in green, with a crow on his shoulder and two mandalas in dark grey, one around the crow’s head and the other on the man’s chest
December 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Marcus McAllister
”SB147.19 douceur” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

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Sketchbook drawing of a bear I dark blue
December 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Marcus McAllister
”SB147.05 so much to give” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm

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Watercolor drawing of two hands (one brown, one blue) reaching to each other under a patterned blue oval form
December 2, 2025 at 1:04 AM