magical market
a magical celebration of shameless self-love
- stay safe -
quarantzine: contributing artists
anonymous
submission: diary of an instacart shopper
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deirdre sokolowska
Deirdre Sokolowska (they/them) is an Ottawa illustrator and filmmaker currently residing in Nova Scotia. Their work explores trauma, asexuality, and healing within sci-fi/fantasy and horror landscapes. During their social distancing Deirdre has been working on Henry Darger inspired illustrations and stories that explore feelings of grief and closure in cold cases.
instagram @unwashedace etsy @DeirdreSokolowski
submissions: july of 1997 (illustration + written piece)
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aurora morrison
Aurora is half of the duo behind the Magical Market. They have a passion for design and use po.pi.ko for all their drawing and design adventures! Like the Magical Market itself, Aurora is inspired by magic and celebrating softness. Also cats.
instagram @po.pi.ko
submission: magical market x @smudge_lord sailor smudge
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adisa codner
Adisa is a queer, black artist creating magical, vivid illustrations with materials such as marker, paint, and digital media. Through her work, she explores themes of mental illness, fantasy, and the occult.
instagram @adisadraws
submission: witch + cat tarot (colouring page)
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emily hoefler
Emily is a First Nations artist who is deeply inspired by kawaii culture. She creates cute, pastel, pins and jewelry influenced by Harajuku and her favorite manga and anime.
instagram @sailormoonkawaiicrafts etsy @kawaiicraftscute submission: amigurumi artemis (DIY craft)
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karn kirk ratanasin
DigiFlohw (Karn Kirk Ratanasin) is a mostly self-taught artist, and has been drawing seriously since 2014. He is a freelance artist whose works are mostly digital, and enjoys painting artwork that can tell a story with some world building elements.
instagram @digiflohw
submission: sailor venus (colouring page)
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miss morgan
Miss Morgan is an artist and a teacher. She divides my time between teaching English as a foreign language, Art and Art History instruction, and studio work. The projects she engages with vary, including city murals, artist alleys, studio workshops, and private commissions. Miss Morgan strives to share inspiration, kindness and creativity.
instagram: @missmorganillu
submissions: human/cat/bird magical dress up dolls (colouring pages), poké-COVID (comic)
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jodi serge
Jodi Serge (Serge Cartoons) is a queer, witchy, single mother of two young kids. In her fleeting spare time she draws, creates webcomics and plays Animal Crossing. Her webcomic Single Mom Laughing is available to read on both WEBTOON and Tapas.
instagram @jkserge
Read more on WEBTOON
submissions: i’m a muffin (comic), invaded (comic)
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lemon.snails
Lemon.Snails is a 20 year old animation student based in Montreal. When they’re not doing homework, they are filled with inspiration for independent projects. They are always drawing and are strongly inspired by anything cute.
instagram @lemon.snails
https://linktr.ee/virulent_lemons
submission: stay home (colouring page)
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emma valley
instagram: @valleyemma
submission: magical doodles (colouring page)
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emily griggs
Emily is an author, freelance illustrator, and all-around geek. She loves cute things and is inspired by Victorian fashion, high fantasy, and modern pop culture.
instagram @sweetingenuinty
http://www.sweetingenuity.com/
submission: magical paper doll (DIY craft)
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joss laberge
Whether it's illustrating detailed characters, or creating something beautiful and magical with wood, thread, or paper, Joss is never shy to try something new, and add their own personal touch of wonder to it.
instagram @theficklewolf
submission: jupiter at dusk (colouring page)
t.flohr
By using surrealist visuals and organic forms, they explore themes that touch humanity, eroticism, and the macabre. T.flohr’s most recent paintings have focused primarily on identities; capturing the most grotesques aspects of who we might be while still trying to show the beauty within.
instagram @tflohr.art
submissions: magical word search (colouring and activity page), magical items heart (colouring page)
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cassie young
Cassie Young is a queer artist, a blueberry enthusiast, and an anxious Canadian. By day she is a digital animator for Netflix's hit show Hilda, which much like Cassie, is an equal mix of sweetness, monsters, and good-hearted mayhem. By night -- and in the very early mornings -- she draws flora and fauna, collects bones, and constructs zines. Her work explores the relationship between the viewer or artist as active explorer and the inherent knowledge, history, and emotion kept and propagated by plants, and animals, and landscapes of this earth.
instagram @cassieyoungart
submission: the two trees of valinor bookmark (colouring page) + poem
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heather kori
Heather Kori Reid is a 28 year old Toronto-based poet. They identify as a mad, queer, non-binary, femme, and fat. Writing has been constant in their life, utilizing it as a means to heal and tell difficult stories. They have always thought of literature as a gateway into other’s lives, a path to understanding and empathy for experiences different from one’s own.
instagram @heatherkori
Submissions: wishes (poetry), scavenger hunt for my lost self (poetry)
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alexandra finkeldey
Alex Finkeldey is a freelance illustrator based in Ottawa, Canada. Her work typically features organic subjects, most often animals, plants and landscapes. She uses highly saturated colour palettes with a focus on natural textures like fur, foliage, and textiles. Scatterbee Illustration & Design sells various paper goods and accessories based on Alex's original illustrations. Products include art prints, cards, stickers, sticker sheets, pinback buttons, enamel pins, handmade clay pins, zines, and tote bags.
instagram @scatterbee https://linktr.ee/scatterbee
submissions: psychic pokemon garden party (illustration), amy mizuno and luna (illustration)
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greer mcnally
Greer loves when opposites attract, mixing hard and soft aesthetics. Think lace and spikes, or pearls and knives. She strives to create things that are funny, feminist, and nostalgic.
instagram @greer.mcnally
submission: magical mermaid (colouring page)
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munea wadud
Munea creates art that is bold, different and challenges social norms - the messaging they use in their art, specifically regarding people of colour, is something that they have never seen before in Ottawa. Munea feels that they are one of the only artists doing this type of work, publicly challenging racism and white supremacy through their pieces. They use representations of figures and bodies of colour of different sizes with magical girl themes such as pastel colours combined with bold messaging such as ‘abolish prisons’, ‘decolonize’, etc....
instagram @artbymunea
submission: magical dreaming (colouring page)
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ariel marsh
Sweet Loots (Ariel Marsh) is a freelance illustrators based out of Ottawa, Ontario. Her current work includes cover and chapter illustrations for The Last Tree from Engen Books and the comic Emma Awesome: Undead Rockstar by Ink'd Well Comics. Her personal work shows favour towards pop culture figures, Dungeons and Dragons and pet portraits.
instagram @sweetloots
submission: emma awesome (colouring page)