Morgan Birch

I'm using a graph paper notebook for experimentation, just to see if I could benefit from the simple guidelines for quick doodles and concepts.

I'm about halfway through it but I don't plan on sharing much from this book since a great deal of it is very chaotic but I like how this page came out.

Happy Aries season!

Here's a concept piece that I started working on a couple of days ago, almost accidentally in that weird meandering sort of way.

I would have waited until I had a finished painting before the reveal, but the timing seemed too perfect not to share.

I wanted to paint something but didn't feel like looking for a reference picture.
So sketched out this imaginary landscape.
It felt nice to get back to painting after 6 months of chaos.
I still don't know where all my watercolor paints ended up 😭

*Watercolor painting on 140lb 6"x 9" cotton paper

Image of Divine speaking into a microphone with overlaid text which states, "become even gayer, do twice as many crimes."

I stole this

A small spiral bound sketchbook opened up to two pages of color illustrations with a set of markers to the side

A small spiral bound sketchbook opened up to a couple of pages of loose graphite sketches with some colored in with acrylic markers and ink

I got a set of acrylic markers to try out and just started filling in some recent loose sketchbook pages.
Where have these been all my life? I'm suddenly feeling inspired again after feeling so burnt out for what feels like forever. I'm going to keep going with these to see where it takes me.

Pencil sketch based on a photo of Dave Vanian standing in a hallway.

Sketchbook study in pencil, based on a photo of Dave Vanian that I recently saw posted online.
The perspective was interesting and immediately caught my eye.

Figure study

Introduction post:

I'm Morgan, a neurodivergent artist from Florida, agender (any pronouns), vegan, and married to the love of my life for 14 years and counting 🖤

Some of my interests include:
✨Goth music and fashion
✨watching movies
✨making art in all forms but mostly doodling in sketchbooks