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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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Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · Apr 4
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
A 4 inch square watercolour book sitting on a green mat next to a couple of watercolour pallets full of many colours of paint.
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December 13, 2025

Cliff Swallow

Background Paint: Raw Sienna

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #OnlyBeautifulThings #BCBirds #birdArt #cliffSwallow #swallow
A portrait of a Cliff Swallow on a warm yellow background. Its head is deep blue with red cheeks and its beak is grey. Its eyes are round, black, and outlined with grey. Its body is tan with brown streaks. Its wings are mottled brown.The swallow is outlined with sketchy white lines.
December 15, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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I hope you wanted a creepy millefiori garden for the 14th day of #ArtAdventCalendar, because that’s what you’re getting!

#watercolour #abstractArt #watercolor
An abstract watercolour painting of a garden. Brightly coloured flowers that resemble millefiori glass are surrounded by a dark green lawn. Within the lawn are many eyes!
December 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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December 12, 2025

Pelagic Cormorant

Background Paint: Nicosia Green Earth

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #OnlyBeautifulThings #BCBirds #birdArt #pelagicCormorant #cormorant
A portrait of a Pelagic Cormorant on a mottled, pale green background. It iridescent black feathers and a long hey bill that turns red-orange as it nears the eye. Its neck is long and has a few longer white feathers. Its eyes are round, black, and outlined with deep red. The cormorant is outlined with sketchy white lines.
December 14, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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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
An abstract color block watercolour painting primarily in shades of gold, blue, and green. There is a bright magenta block near the middle of the painting, just above a gold field.
December 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Day 13 of #ArtAdventCalendar
"Murmuration 2"
Starling hand embroidery thread painting artwork.
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#birds #embroidery #WildlifeArt
A square peach fabric base. In the background are six black flying starling silhouettes. On top are 12 hand embroidered line drawings of flying starlings. On top of those are 6 hand embroidered parts of flying starlings in detail.
December 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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#AbstractAdvent2025

Day 13
Thin white hands with long green nails.
December 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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December 11, 2025

Lesser Yellowlegs

Background Paint: Cadmium Red (pale hue)

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #OnlyBeautifulThings #BCBirds #birdArt #lesserYellowlegs
A portrait of a Lesser Yellowlegs on a red-orange background. It is a speckled white bird with a long black bill. It has turned its head to look over its right wing. Its eyes are round and black. The yellowlegs is outlined with sketchy white lines.
December 13, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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A grid of stripes in a colour combo that I find very pleasing for #ArtAdventCalendar day 12!

#watercolour #abstractArt #watercolor
A watercolour painting of a 3x3 square grid. Within each square are there stripes: light, medium, and dark. In each row and column there are squares of gold, indigo, and cerulean stripes. The stripes in each square are in either horizontal or vertical orientation.
December 13, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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December 10, 2025

Lesser Goldfinch

Background Paint: Beach Rose (gouache)

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #OnlyBeautifulThings #BCBirds #birdArt #lesserGoldfinch #goldfinch
A portrait of a Lesser Goldfinch on a deep pink background. Its head and back are black. Its throat and chest are bright yellow. Its wings are black with white streaks. It’s has a short gray beak. Its eyes are round and black. The goldfinch is outlined with sketchy white lines.
December 12, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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My offering for #ArtAdventCalendar day 11: Some blueberries created with Neocolor II water pastels on tinted paper.

#neocolorII #waterPastels #blueberries
A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. A close up still life of several blueberries. The top-most blueberry has it’s blossom end visible. Two blueberries are fully visible with four more partially visible, filling the bottom two-thirds of the painting.
December 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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December 9, 2025

Brandt’s Cormorant

Background Paint: Dioxazine Purple

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #OnlyBeautifulThings #BCBirds #birdArt #brandtsCormorant #cormorant
A portrait of a Brandt’s Cormorant on a purple background. Its head, back, wings, and body are deep blueish black. Beneath its long grey bill, its throat is sky blue. Its eyes are round and blue. The cormorant is outlined with sketchy white lines.
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Here’s an abstract forest I painted as part of my daily #rollandpaint project for day 10 of #ArtAdventCalendar.
A watercolour painting using the negative space technique. A forest of strange trees. Each tree has a tall slender trunk topped with an orb of leaves. They are painting in shades of yellow, orange, and red, starting bright and light in the foreground and getting darker and smaller as they recede into the murky mossy brown background.
December 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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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?
A watercolor landscape painting with unusual color choices. A red stone tower sits on rolling yellow hills. Slashing across the hills from the left and dipping down to the right corner is a dark blue path. At the right end of the path is a large jagged blue rock. Above the scene is a hazy, pale green sky.
December 10, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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happy ikea monkey day
an ink sketch of the well dressed ikea monkey
December 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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December 8, 2025

Brant

Background Paint: Ice Colour (gouache)

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #OnlyBeautifulThings #BCBirds #birdArt #brant #goose
A portrait of a Brant on a pale, ice blue background. Its head, back, wings, and body are dark brown. There is a thin band of white feathers around its neck. It has a large black bill. Its eyes are round and black. The Brant is outlined with sketchy white lines.
December 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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December 7, 2025

Swainson’s Thrush

Background Paint: Wild Rose (gouache)

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #OnlyBeautifulThings #BCBirds #birdArt #swainsonsThrush #thrush
A portrait of a Swainson’s Thrush on a bubblegum pink background.Its head, back, and wings are brown. Its is body tan with brown speckles. It has a small grey beak. Its eyes are large, round and black. The thrush is outlined with sketchy white lines.
December 9, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Day 8 of #ArtAdventCalendar - a vibrant abstract I painted last month as part of my #rollandpaint daily art project.

#watercolour #art #watercolor #abstract #abstractArt
An abstract watercolour painting. Circles of various sizes overlap each other and are split by one vertical and two diagonal white lines. The circles are outlined in white and each segment within them is a magenta, blue-green, green-yellow, dark-grey, or a soft blended mix of those colours.
December 9, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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#AbstractAdvent2025

Day 8
Four worms a-jumpin’
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.💜💫

🧪🖌🎨🔭🐡🎄
An oil painting in blues and whites of a made up nebula.
December 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Oscar

#ArtAdventCalendar #Watercolour #Fish #OC
A watercolour painting of an oscar fish, who happens to be named Oscar, in his tank with blue pebbles below. Oscar is in side portrait to the viewer facing right.
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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December 6, 2025

Black-bellied Plover

Background Paint: Quinacridone Gold

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #OnlyBeautifulThings #BCBirds #birdArt #blackBelliedPlover #plover
A portrait of a Black-bellied Plover on a deep golden yellow background. The top of its head and around its neck are white with grey flecks. Its head and body are black. Its wings are white, grey, and black. It has a straight black bill. Its eyes are large and black. The plover is outlined with sketchy white lines.
December 8, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Have a chili pepper on this, the seventh day of #ArtAdventCalendar.

#neocolor #waterpastels #stillLife
A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. A green chili pepper sits on a brown wooden table top. Its stem is pointing to the right and has a sharp turn near the end. Light is reflecting off the top of the pepper. Behind the chili and table is a mottled brown gradient background.
December 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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December 5, 2025

Ring-billed Gull

Background Paint: Burnt Umber

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #OnlyBeautifulThings #BCBirds #birdArt #ringBilledGull #gull
A portrait of a Ring-billed Gull on a brown background. Its chest is tan with tufts of brown feathers. Its head and body are white. Its head and neck are covered in grey speckles. It has a long yellow bill with a ring of black near the tip. Its eyes are small and yellow with black pupils. Its wings are gray. The gull is outlined with sketchy white lines.
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.
Watercolour and pencil llustration of a big fluffy Kentish glory moth, or Endromis versicolora if you want the Latin. It's perched on bark, with its large white and red-brown speckled wings folded. It has a very fluffy body and black antennas and she looks majestic.
December 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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On the sixth day of #ArtAdventCalendar, my true love gave to me just one goose who may or may not be a-laying.
A portrait of an Emperor Goose. It has a white head with a long neck that is white on the back and dark brown down the front. Its short beak is pink on top and dark brown on the bottom. It is outlined with loose, sketchy white lines. The background is painted teal.
December 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM