Maddie Forrest

This is the portfolio of Maddie Forrest, a silly artist who likes Monsters.

[maddieforrest]

Hello it’s a self portrait of me from many years ago! Hi hi what would a self portrait of me now look like? We all look different all the time throughout our days. I feel like self portraits are an avenue that people use to accurately depict who they really are or provide a space to explore a side of ourselves we want but don’t fully have yet. Now i feel like a self portrait would be more like the former or of an absolute absurdist magical version but in this self portrait i think i was exploring beauty and adult feelings. ⭕️🔥⭕️🔥⭕️🔥⭕️🔥⭕️🔥⭕️🔥⭕️🔥⭕️🔥⭕️🔥⭕️🔥 #selfportrait #drawing #portrait (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CO_g7sBjsdE/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Tik tok tik tok we don’t have that much time left tik tok tik tok we’re running out of time 🛌 🛌 🛌 🛌 🛌 🛌 🛌 🛌 🛌 #graphicdesign #anxiety #popart #color #time (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/COwT6mHjnk5/?igshid=1q0ix8k19de2r

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Hello! I’m looking through old sketchbooks and am finding some stuff that’s really making me connect back to the way i drew on paper and the way i worked through lines on paper. Plus wow what a bundle of unused concepts! Go look at ur sketchbooks theres probbaly some gold in there that you can now make big and bright with ur adult artist skills! . . . . #drawings #sketchbook #sketches (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/COGkByNj2I6/?igshid=1ljg0h53cjrd2

[maddieforrest]

Hello! I’m looking through old sketchbooks and am finding some stuff that’s really making me connect back to the way i drew on paper and the way i worked through lines on paper. Plus wow what a bundle of unused concepts! Go look at ur sketchbooks theres probbaly some gold in there that you can now make big and bright with ur adult artist skills! . . . . #drawings #sketchbook #sketches (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/COGjl3QjVON/?igshid=1qtz4m4povaob

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Here’s another look at Chris Perry’s new album “A Head Full of Smoke” that I did the cassette design for! @graveblocker Reposted from @alreadydeadtapes Buy the cassette and stream it in their bio! #chrisperry #aheadofsmoke #cassette #cassetteculture #cassettes #cassettetape #cassettetapes #tape #tapes #diy #dit #makethings #experimentalmusic #atlanta #madeinatl https://www.instagram.com/p/CN86d59jbFb/?igshid=1fr1dix3vnvsw

[maddieforrest]

Oooo doggir!!! Dreamin and schemin! I love puppets that cry! When’s the last time a little poo poo pupper cried in your snazzy sleeves???? (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMTcsarD0wR/?igshid=15v3o5fc5gbyu

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Sometimes the first draft that you’re in LOVE with just gets stale after a few days of looking at it! That’s what happened with this piece, which was the initial stab i took at @dependableson’s album cover for “Quidnunc” (streaming everywhere currently!). Initially when i listened to Stone’s album, i closed my eyes and heard his voice - sometimes close and sometimes far away mixed in with sounds and audio wiggles muddy and bold, thin and foggy! I tried to feel what colors made sense, and saw dirty muted greens and blues with splashes of yellow and pink. Sometimes minimalism can be impressive in the certainty and confidence of the few marks they put on the table. i sometimes kinda edge on maximalism and wanted to leave space in this piece. Stone puts a lot of intention into this album and at the same time a feeling of perfect looseness and unclutteredness is there too. I tried to put all that into this piece and really liked it for a few days, maybe a week and asked stone lots of questions, probably too many questions! At one point i told him, if we weren’t dating i’d probably leave you more alone and just get it done but I want to get this right for you! In the end i looked at the album art from far away and just felt like it didn’t grab me and that there were too few exciting details for it to be an accurate representation of Quidnunc. A few days later i was doodling during a long christmas zoom call, just making scribbles and choosing colors and playing with effects brushes to busy my hands while the fam chatted, waiting to jump in when a subject arose i wanted to participate in. Listening and scribbling and thinking. When i felt done, it was better than the album cover I tried so hard to make with all my logic. So I scrapped preciousness and took the christmas gift. In the end the logic makes me practice choice making, rather than guaranteed the first stab will be perfect. #posterdesign #albumart #digitalart #artprocess #procreate #coverart (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLiemnxjHn7/?igshid=n2tdc5cilqf0

[maddieforrest]

Sometimes you sur on your lover’s bed and draw the cups you drink water and kombucha and mud from! And then u watch twitch streams of your best friend and her lovely gf dancing and then you have a long call and talk about everything the past and the future and the ways we have grown! And sometimes u ringading dong and baby is about to watch anime with the squad and u say hehe uwu. Sometimes the flowers he gave u get old and you let them stay so long in the vase that they get mold oops! And then u give some plants to ur friend because his gf loves succulents and your mom takes photos of halloween masks to sell on etsy as the clothes dry on the rack. (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLdgSnmjuGy/?igshid=diucdzzdfzv4

[maddieforrest]

Good morning, afternoon, evening, and dark dream void of the night! Here’s a still life I painted in in college! I was a sculpture major so only had maybe 2-3 oil painting classes and to be honest, painting kind of annoys me! The endless mixing of colors, adding just a little more green into the red to dull it out only to get a dark grey mush because you used the wrong type of green that doesn’t stay pure when mixed. It can be looked at as incredibly monklike and focused and unrelenting. For me it sometimes just felt like a tedious obstacle to the focus of making a 2D image look like the 3D object in front of you. But then, there’s lots of tediousness and obstacles within sculpting work that i DO like steadily working through - endleslly sanding surfaces, measuring and cutting straight strips of wood, figuring out the easiest and quickest way to replicate a blimp that looks like vegetables, testing balloon rubber and foam carving ect ect. I think it’s because with sculpting i can switch around to a few strange and physical tasks and my hands are always holding strange and toy-like objects. When sculpting gets frustrating, i can grip it and hold it tightly but when painting gets frustrating all i can do is gently mix and gently let the soft brush bend against the canvas. Lol Maddie’s an Aries, did ya know!?!? In the end I think everyone has their repetitive tediousness that they can handle and that they look at as rewarding. Everyone knows art is meditative but i want my meditation to kinda feel like im throwing a bunch of stuff at a wall and seeing if it sticks and knowing how to glue them up, tye them down, screw them in if they don’t. #stilllife #artrant #painting #process #sculpting (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLPbAFMjMCX/?igshid=kvsh9d2lpv8s

[maddieforrest]

Please comment with something you should have said sooner! I for one don’t say things soon enough and then I look like the second image when it finally shoots out of me after a bout of verbal constipation. This is one of my quick color study journal comic things to keep my eye loose and make something short messy and fun. (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLLTQyFDQys/?igshid=1ql8sn5pknmzl

[maddieforrest]

#Repost @dependableson with @make_repost ・・・ album collaborators reflect on their favorite moments from making quidnunc. These were sessions to go down in history. Stream quidnunc now https://www.instagram.com/p/CLIt4RMDFsT/?igshid=11hkpddkcdj5p

[maddieforrest]

Sup One day the world is made of slippery cheese and one day the wind is blowing through your hands full of bread and the birds can’t get enough and art is zipping up and stonker is quickening his luck! We all keep trying and our hormones make our moods go up and down!!! I’m makin my way downtown walkin slow it’s not gooooooin anywhere doodle de doodle de doodle de doodle doo (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLGMyfoD0um/?igshid=1p76mq35dim2x

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Hi this is an unhinged short strange “teaser” cut of the @dependableson music video for the song Butcher’s Twine that I made with Stone! You can see the full video in my bio link or on his page!!! We filmed Stone from above laying down on greenscreen that we set up in their apartment and Stone set up a gopro to record the process of making soup and I slipped that silky footage right uo behind that sassy sailor in this video! Dependable Son’s new album Quidnunc is really a treasure and you can learn more about it on his page or find it streaming everywhere online, spotify soundcloud, bandcamp you NAME IT WE GOT IT!!!! #alternative #diy #bedroompop #musicvideo (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLCvj8sDH84/?igshid=8szjxwk5euqh

[maddieforrest]

DON’T forget that i ONLY make things that are FREAKED!!!!!!!!!!!!! Listen to the FREAKED album that is the GOSSIP around town and DON’T STOP to smell the flowers this time on ur way to hear it!!! Ya gotta get goin!! Rush along!! Please tell me in the commentz what you wish you could bend down and smell on your power walk to listen to @dependableson’s album!??! Please comment or else i’ll have really low engagement and instagram will continue to say bad maddie bad maddie! Lol jk do what you want we’re all gonna be dust in the wind in the end 🎶 Cover by me, meme edited by stone and then me lol. (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CK7xZuuDYat/?igshid=ep7hqoxgoh4d

[maddieforrest]

@dependableson is a MUSIC MANIAC!!!!!!!!! Here’s the cover of their new album, Quidnunc, a word you haven’t heard but is as sassy as it’s colors suggest on the album cover I made! It’s out NOW on all the digital noise making platforms!! Second photo is a photo of the artist in all the flower headdress glory one can hope and the last photo is a time lapse of me drawing the cover on #procreate. . . . . #posterdesign #design #albumart #diymusic #dependableson #graphicdesign #albumcover #albumcoverart (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CK63RcLjk9x/?igshid=1d758qo9cwa3r

[maddieforrest]

I can’t help myself. I love @emburgler and @veradrew22’s podcast “Welcome to Jackass”. Check it out on @redactedemotions youtube. I drew this while watching it and lounging with @dependableson. Go have a time. . . . . . #procreate #jackass #illustration #lifedrawing #drawing #yellow #podcast #redactedemotions #artstagram (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKvKL8tjimx/?igshid=1pemk6mau72fj

[maddieforrest]

Hi there I love making glitchy color mayhem hype with words and Stone keeps ending up in them because he’s a marmalade marionette!! Also SHHHH HIS ALBUM “Quidnunc” is coming out REALLY SOON (feb 5th) and I’m helping him cook up some things for it!!!!! Go check out @dependableson or else I’ll sneeze on you with boogers that resemble this digital art i made!!! . . . . . . #lowbrowart #weirdoart #digitalart #procreate #music #artstagram #surrealistmeme #glitchart #vaporwave #illustration #colorstudy #graphicdesign #posterdesign (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKshv6AjZ2e/?igshid=1lvffv3yiu22e