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megan.lynn 🇨🇦
@meganlynnmacdonald.bsky.social
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Visual Artist: Oil painting, Photography, Drawing, Whatever other medium catches my eye.
Vancouver Island Artist
Degrees in Visual Arts and Anthropology.
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The #BlueSkyArtShow #Vertical is giving me a reason to share a random Holga picture I took while walking around town last year. It was an experiment to see what kind of depth of field I could achieve with my camera. #Holga #IlfordHP5 #FilmPhotography #BlackAndWhiteFilm #AnalogPhotography
Black and white film photo looking up at tall apartment buildings with bare tree branches reaching across the sky. The image has light leaks and a soft, vintage feel.
October 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Brownie Hawkeye camera with flash. #BrownieHawkeye #IllustrationArt #GraphiteDrawing #DigitalIllustration
Brownie Hawkeye camera with flash illustration. Graphite sketch, digitally coloured.
September 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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It's not all doodles for me. I love pencil drawings, but they take me longer, and I like to switch it up. I also love old cameras. #drawing #wip #Brownie #Camera
Pencil sketch in progress of a vintage Brownie Hawkeye camera with flash, on paper taped to a wooden surface. Light shading and grid lines are visible.
September 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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New doodle sketch. Taking time out to doodle makes me happy.
I'm working on getting my shop back up and running.
Close up of an small open sketchbook. There are three loosely sketch/drawn pumpkins. A pilot g-tec pen is on the table next to the sketchbook
September 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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The soil in our front yard needs enriching after all the work done on and around our house. But one hardy sunflower managed to bloom. 🌻
One blooming sunflower with a fence and tree lined street behind.
September 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Gotta love coming out of a used bookstore sale feeling like you found treasure.
Close up of a book held up in one hand. The cover image is an old sepia photograph of a group of people. The title of the book is 'Photographs of the past. Process and Preservation ' Bertrand Lavédrine.
August 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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My happy place! All with a system and in their place. Art chaos comes later; I like starting organized and I enjoy laying it all out. I didn't know I was autistic in school. Having a system like this to start from would have made my life much easier. Not too limited, but no option paralysis either.
Glass tabletop palette with oil paints laid out around the edges, each labeled with green tape. A color mixing chart with swatches is in the center, showing yellows, greens, blues, and earth tones.
August 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I managed to get a few cyanotype prints done today before it clouded over. I made the negative from a picture I took of a Witch stone I found on a beach walk. (Yes it's time to harvest those potatoes)
Picture of a cyanotype image of a witch stone being held up between my fingers. the cyanotype is hanging off the back of one of my metal patio chairs. in the background another cyanotype is being exposed in a glass frame. behind that is a pot of potatoes that are due to be harvested.
August 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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This morning's view out the kitchen window.

Taken with my cell phone through mesh screen.
A Cooper's hawk (i think) sitting on a mossy roof wings and tail spread slightly A Cooper's hawk (i think) standing on a roof peak with small prey of some kind caught in it's talon.
July 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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I decided to treat myself to new paint brushes! I ordered 4 new brushes from a few of their product lines. (I've never had a sable before!) and i'm excited to try them out. They got to Canada surprisingly fast too. #RosemaryBrushes
Open package that says thank you on the inside of the open flap. Inside is a Rosemary and Co catalogue, sticker, and a selection of 4 new paint brushes.
June 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Signs of summer 🌞
Fresh ripe strawberries.
Sunny close up of two fresh strawberries still on the plant. Growing in a plant pot.
June 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Short visit to my old stomping grounds. West Coast sandy toes.
Sandy pacific north west beach. Ocean and islands in the distance. Part of one bare foot close up. With a bit of a hole dug into the sand with my heel.
June 2, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Progress on my cat skull drawing. I may call it done for now. The sketch is roughly 3" x 4". Not my usual size but it's been a good challenge and practice. Detail without too much detail. Graphite on paper.
Image of sheet of paper taped to drawing board using black and white striped washi tape. On the paper is a roughly 3" by 4" graphite sketch of a feline skull.
May 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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I found some amazing #Texture for #BlueSkyArtShow while camping this weekend. Cell phone photo of muscles on the beach.
Close up image of a cluster of large muscles on West Coast beach of Vancouver Island. Blurry background of ocean and large rock.
May 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Posting a little work in progress for #BlueSkyArtShow
The theme is #Lines
So here is the line work stage of a small drawing. Graphite on paper
Graphite on paper sketch drawing of a small feline skull. The first lines of the drawing are for working out scale, placement and composition. (I don’t have a feline skull I’m working from a 3d print)
May 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow
Spring in the PNW: a winding trail of vibrant life. #Green
The image is taken while standing at a friend’s cabin, looking down the overgrown path. Mossy trees are on either side of the path, with ferns and other bushes filling in the area. The grass has grown long and green. Closest to the viewer are tree stumps overgrown with moss and ferns. One stump has been used as a firewood chopping block; the axe is still in it.
May 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Today’s #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Earth

I love a tenacious flower. They give me hope for the earth.
A close up of a small plant with 3 white flowers with yellow centres growing on a bare rock on a beach.
April 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Our crow friends are back! and expecting peanuts. I always feel special when not getting dive bombed in nesting season.
Two crows on wood yard fence, expecting to be fed peanuts. Trees with new leaf behind.
March 31, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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I have no memory of when I put film in this camera. I didn’t think I’d used it since a trip in 2023. Mystery pictures! #Photography #Holga #FilmPhotography
Close up on the exposure count view window on the back of a holga camera. Counter indicates 10 exposures have been used.
March 30, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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This week’s #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Arch
Evidently I don’t take many pictures of Arches. So, I’m going with a compositional Arch. #VancouverIslandArtist #Photography
Image is of a stairway leading down to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The stairway has tall water stained walls on either side. A male figure with short hair, wearing a long brown coat stand on the bottom step looking out on the waves. The walls for the stairway connect with the skyline above the figure making and arch shape.
March 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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This was the start of my series exploring what it is like moving through the day with binocular dysfunction.
The concept is to put my camera on multi shot while walking. The images are made by digitally compiling of all 24 shots.
#BlueSkyArtShow the theme this week is #TheJourney
multi layered photo of an outdoor path. Images are taken while walking up a set of stairs. Stairs Path Digital photography 2021
March 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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The #BlueSkyArtShow #Spring
Spring is coming and soon more time for sitting in my tiny yard enjoying some sun.
A pink Italian soda in a glass sitting on a mossy table in a yard with spring flowers in the back ground.
February 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Started up my dehydrator. Working on component parts to try make my own broth powder mix. My favourite GF option is no longer available.
#HobbitatKitchen
Close up image of a box dehydrator with 4 trays full of sliced mushrooms.
February 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow all day Saturday, the theme is #Abandoned
I’m going with an abandoned painting of mine.

Roughly 3’ x 3’ Acrylic on Canvas.
More info in Alt text.
Unfinished painting of a close-up of my body upside down in a concave mirror at the gym. I was leaning on a bar of a squat rack after my set with my phone and saw my reflection, so I took a picture. I was using acrylic for classes, but I was more experienced in working with oil. I abandoned the painting.
February 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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My monochrome work is mostly black and white photography. I really enjoy how beautiful everyday objects can look with a sunbeam hitting them. I often grab snapshots when the light is just right.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Monochrome #Photography #FilmPhotography
Black and white photograph of 4 empty glass jars on a tile counter and against the wall. 2 smaller and the same, one and old large pickle jar and the 4th a more tall square shape jar. with a sunbeam hitting and refracting in one off the larger pickle jars. Light patterns also reflect on to the wall making interesting patterns.
February 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM