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Tara Gibbs 🍁
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Rolling dice to decide on my daily watercolour painting practice. Details here: https://bsky.app/profile/burntflowers.bsky.social/post/3kpbsyb5e4g2q
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I started a daily painting practice over the weekend. I’ve made a list of practice exercises and every day I roll a d12 to pick one. Then I roll again to choose colours from my pallet and paint in this tiny watercolour journal.

I’m going to share them here, tagged with #rollandpaint
December 15, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I hope you wanted a creepy millefiori garden for the 14th day of #ArtAdventCalendar, because that’s what you’re getting!

#watercolour #abstractArt #watercolor
December 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
December 14, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Day 13 of #ArtAdventCalendar: a painting I did just last night in a @caseformaking.bsky.social online workshop about Helen Frankenthaler’s abstract painting styles.

#watercolour #abstractArt #helenFrankenthaler #watercolor
December 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Day 13 of #ArtAdventCalendar
"Murmuration 2"
Starling hand embroidery thread painting artwork.
www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p23/st...
#birds #embroidery #WildlifeArt
December 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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December 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
December 11, 2025

Lesser Yellowlegs

Background Paint: Cadmium Red (pale hue)

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #OnlyBeautifulThings #BCBirds #birdArt #lesserYellowlegs
December 13, 2025 at 5:21 AM
A grid of stripes in a colour combo that I find very pleasing for #ArtAdventCalendar day 12!

#watercolour #abstractArt #watercolor
December 13, 2025 at 2:51 AM
December 12, 2025 at 5:23 AM
My offering for #ArtAdventCalendar day 11: Some blueberries created with Neocolor II water pastels on tinted paper.

#neocolorII #waterPastels #blueberries
December 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Here’s an abstract forest I painted as part of my daily #rollandpaint project for day 10 of #ArtAdventCalendar.
December 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
A surreal landscape painting for Day 9 of #ArtAdventCalendar

This is a real place somewhere in the world painted with unreal colours. Do you recognize it?
December 10, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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happy ikea monkey day
December 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
December 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
December 7, 2025

Swainson’s Thrush

Background Paint: Wild Rose (gouache)

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #OnlyBeautifulThings #BCBirds #birdArt #swainsonsThrush #thrush
December 9, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Day 8 of #ArtAdventCalendar - a vibrant abstract I painted last month as part of my #rollandpaint daily art project.

#watercolour #art #watercolor #abstract #abstractArt
December 9, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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December 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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I am incredibly late to the party, but here's an Art Advent Calendar for day 8.🤭

I decided to start with my first ever oil painting, the piece that started me on this journey to share the Cosmos with you all.💜💫

🧪🖌🎨🔭🐡🎄
December 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 4:44 AM
December 8, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Have a chili pepper on this, the seventh day of #ArtAdventCalendar.

#neocolor #waterpastels #stillLife
December 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
December 7, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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OK, let me join #ArtAdventCalendar, late, even if I might not catch up entirely!

Gonna go for a #SciArt zine illustrations theme.

1. Kentish glory moth.

No longer found in Kent, or indeed most other places in the UK. Now scarce and found only in Scotland, if I recall correctly.
December 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
On the sixth day of #ArtAdventCalendar, my true love gave to me just one goose who may or may not be a-laying.
December 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM