about
MAría Maldonado is an Ecuadorian Illustrator based in New York City
At the core of MAría’s visual language is a passion for bringing the spontaneity and energy of analog mark making into today’s digital climate through her illustrations, playful comics, characters, and animated gifs.
While her first love was learning color theory through oil painting and the formalities of representational draftsmanship; maría’s tirelessly curious nature has made her a truly versatile artist capable of tackling a VARIETY of subject matter.
pastel and graphite
Based on this excerpt from "The Poetics of Space," by Gaston Bachelard:
"It is a strange situation. The space we love is unwilling to remain permanently enclosed."
Oil on Paper
This is a dog I fostered in 2023. She was brought to New York City by Pixie and Paws Rescue from a hoarding case. Her sister, Ivey, was adopted during the adoption event where I was volunteering. No one was able to take Evie, so I bit the bullet and took her to my apartment. In this painting, she is asleep and finally able to curl up in home where she is safe and loved.
Evie's adoption three days later was so bittersweet.
Oil on Paper
This is a portrait of Atlas, also a rescue German Shepherd puppy I fostered through Pixies and Paws Rescue. Fostering this time around was also very impromptu; fosters were bailing or not showing up and Atlas was the only puppy left at the foster pick up in NJ.
As a dog training enthusiast, I take puppy raising very seriously (it is the foundation for the rest of their lives!). So while I only fostered Atlas for three days, I completely fell in love with him and how quickly he was learning, and how gentle he was with my Chihuahua, Lola.
In the picture that the rescue posted on their instagram, he was labeled as "runt boy"
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