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Shannon Leo
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Artist, ecologist, and poet based in TN
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Watercolor, 2025

#painting #watercolor #affirmations #self-love #abstractart
Watercolor splatters and blobs in blue, gold, pink, and purple around text that says "your weirdness is your magic"
September 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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“Cells and stars,” watercolor and gouache on paper, 10”x10,” 2024.

#watercolor #art #abstract #abstractart #gouache #painting #artist
abstract painting in a rainbow of pastel colors. Circular shapes are reminiscent of cells and cell structures
June 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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The sensation of creation

#watercolor #abstractart #abstraction #painting #art #colors #artist
An abstract watercolor painting of swirling lines and droplets of blue, gold, pink, and purple bursting from a small fold and orange circle
May 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Some linocuts I’ll be bringing to a market this Sunday 💖

#art #linocut #printmaking #artist #natureart #possum #flowers
Several linocut prints on paper sitting on a hardwood floor. There are prints of a violet, a possum, a salamander and flowers, and a mass of wings, all in blue, gold, and/or black
May 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Tsuga canadensis, the eastern hemlock. Not the same thing as poison hemlock, which isn’t even in the same family!
Watercolor and ink in my sketchbook 🖌️

#art #watercolor #botanicalillustration #plants #drawing #ink
Watercolor and ink drawing of a small evergreen twig with two brown cones, a green cone, and bright green tips. There are a fountain pen and a live hemlock twig sitting on top of the page
May 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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My husband and I have been moving this week and it is ✨kicking my ass✨ but here’s a little work-in-progress of a fantasy scene I can’t wait to get back to painting soon 🦄

#art #painting #fantasyart #gouache #unicorns
A partially-finished gouache painting of unicorn grazing in a male surrounded by lush forest and tall purple mountains under a blue sky
March 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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When you investigate your dad’s painting a little too hard (the paint is nontoxic). Vincent loves to watch paint brushes move! She really lives up to her namesake
🐱 🎨

#cat #art #wip #painting #gouache #cats #workinprogress #sciart
A photo of an orange cat’s face with a smudge of blue paint on her nose A work in progress painting of a frog underneath a snowy landscape, with the painting supplies laid out next to the paining on a yellow patterned blanket
February 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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I'm so excited to share with y'all that I've got original merch! Get some wearable art and support my work at shannon-leo-designs.printify.me

This has been a long time in the works, and I'm really proud of all the designs I get to share with you now. There will be more to come soon too!
February 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Aw ok I love this! This is Remy, who started out as a joke dungeons and dragons character but wound up helping me realize I was trans, and he still has a special place in my heart

#drawing #art #oc #trans #illustration #originalcharacter
A digital drawing of a young man with tan skin and short wavy black hair. He is wearing overalls, a black tank top with cut-off sleeves, and black high-top sneakers. He is sitting in grass under a dark sky with one hand on his chin. Sparkling flecks swirl around his body and his eyes are solid white
February 22, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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You know that water is the best kind of frigid
Gouache in my sketchbook, 2024

#painting #gouache #art #fantasyart #illustration
A gouache painting of a waterfall cascading among large rocks. Sunny trees are visible above the waterfall, and a large tree clings to the side of one of the big stones. Three humanoid figures are visible: one in the tree, one sitting on a boulder, and one with a tail in the pool below the waterfall
February 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Another old character design! Zeph, some kind of astral traveler

#art #drawing #illustration #characterdesign #originalcharacter #fantasyart
A digital drawing of a person against a starry dark blue backdrop. He has tan skin, long blue hair partially pulled back in a bun, freckles, top surgery scars, pointed ears, pointy teeth, and a long tail ending in a tuft of blue fur. He is wearing blue wrap-style pants and no shirt, with gold earrings and cuffs around his tail. He has a sun symbol tattooed on one foot and a moon symbol, a large glowing sunburst symbol on his chest. He also has a fang tattooed lower on his chest.
February 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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This morning I unearthed character sketches from a few years ago. I’ve kind of ignored them for a while since they’re from a D&D game with folks I don’t fw anymore, but I really do love the loose ink and watercolor vibe I had going here

#art #watercolor #characterdesign #drawing #originalcharacter
A watercolor and ink portrait of a person with pale skin, dark grey eyes, drop earrings, and shaggy wavy brown hair A watercolor portrait of a pale bald person with abstract geometric symbols tattooed on her head, neck, shoulders, and clavicle A watercolor and ink portrait of a dark skinned person with close-cropped curly hair. She is wearing gold armor with blue stones set into its chest plate
February 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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another view of the stormy sea from fall 2024, watercolor

#painting #watercolor #seascape #art #artist #natureart
a gestural watercolor seascape--a stormy sky and grey sea, with a dark blue horizon line cutting across the middle of the page. a thin strip of beach is visible below, with hints of seaweed scattered along it
February 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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the clouds parting over the sea, fall 2024, watercolor

#painting #art #artist #landscape #seascape #watercolor #sketchbook
a gestural watercolor seascape in blues and greys. the horizon line sits about a third of the way down the page, and above it dark clouds part to reveal a pop of lemon yellow sunlight
February 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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A poem for the morning

#poetry #poet #words #naturepoetry #nature
A poem on a light green background: For the sparrows 2/6/2025 By Shannon Leo I do not want to write a poem for fascism I would rather write one for the small birds who feel the warm February sunrise and sing knowing that this day too is worth greeting with beauty
February 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Color poetics
Watercolor on hot press paper, 2024

#art #abstract #watercolor #painting #artist #abstractart #colorful
an abstract watercolor painting comprised of an arc that goes from blue to gold with hints of pink and purple surrounding a golden shape. rays and dots in pink and purple come off of the bottom right edge of the arc
February 6, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Some kind of swamp spirit. Watercolor and ink on cold press paper in my sketchbook

#art #drawing #painting #watercolor #illustration #sketchbook #fantasyart
A watercolor and ink drawing of a pale nude figure with long opalescent hair crouching among cattail plants. They are holding a purple mask in the approximate shape of a human face and abstract colors, shapes, and eyes are flowing off of their back
February 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Holding the sunshine and determined hope of dandelions today 🌼 Stickers of this design to come soon!

#art #artist #drawing #illustration #stickerdesign #dandelion #flowers #nature
digital drawing of a dandelion with two flowers on a pink, blue, and gold amorphous background. text around the image reads "I will bloom no matter what"
February 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Another moment from the beach in watercolor and ink from fall of 2024

#watercolor #ink #art #painting #drawing #artist #enpleinair #pleinair
watercolor paining of steps leading down to the beach though yellow and dark green foliage. the details of the stairs have been drawn in with ink, and the overall color scheme is muted tans, blues, greys, and greens, with pops of bright yellow to indicate flowers
January 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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A view of St. George Island in fall of 2024 in watercolor. There was this patch of vibrant yellow flowers in the dunes right outside where we stayed that I was absolutely obsessed with

#watercolor #painting #art #artist #sketchbook #beach #nature #pleinair #enpleinair
a watercolor painting done in loose brushstrokes. In the foreground is a patch of grass on a dune in dark greens, with a pop of yellow in it. There are bare branches sticking up on the left and right sides of the page. Behind the dune and plants is a little patch of sand, with gestural strokes of brown to indicate seaweed washed ashore. Beyond the sand is the ocean, which is rendered in light blues, teals, greens, and neutrals. A light blue-grey wash indicates the sky above
January 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Some sketchbook sheep and studies of Arthur Rackham’s trees in watercolor and ink. I love how much detail Rackham’s work captures in loose yet intricate lines! These trees were re-draws of details in his work to learn about his technique

#art #painting #sketchbook #drawing #ink #watercolor #artist
A sketchbook page with three watercolor and ink drawings of sheep: one standing in profile, one facing forward and looking to the side, and one close-up of the sheep’s face Sketchbook page with two detail drawings of trees in brown and green watercolor and ink
January 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Character sheet of my brother's D&D character 🐆

#art #characterdesign #illustration #anthro #dungeonsanddragons #dnd #fantasyart #characterart #drawing
digital drawing of a anthropomorphic leopard wearing blue flowy pants and shirt, a purple cloak, and leather belt, shoulder armor, bandolier, and toe-less boots (their claws and dewclaws are visible). To the left is a close-up of their face, where their eyes are made up of swirling galaxy blues, purples, and greens in a galaxy style. A loose sketch of them with swirling rainbow colors between their hands is on the right. Various items are drawn around the page: a rapier, a dagger, feathers, dice, 3 magic wands, a wooden fan, blue and green glass bottles, a leather-bound book, and a hand holding metal cards
January 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Morning #poem with a little meditation on #grief and #love

#poetry #words #emotions #grieving #poet
Phoenix 10/24/2023 let your heart break it is an egg which must crack open to allow the love that is inside to fly
January 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Right now and always 💖

#art #affirmations #painting #watercolor #abstractart #colorful #Artist #abstraction
An abstract watercolor painting of vibrant blue, yellow, purple, and magenta in bursts that radiate out from hand-painted text that reads “the world needs your authentic self”
January 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Hi y'all! I'm Shannon, a 29-year old transmasc artist based in Tennessee. I love watercolors, painting to observe, and colorful abstractions. I'm always trying to paint more of what brings me joy 💫

Find more of my work at shannonleo.com
digital drawing of a masculine presenting white person with short brown wavy hair, blue eyes, teal glasses, a light green shirt, and light facial hair. the background is a blue and light teal circle
January 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM