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Beth Dooner
@bethdooner.bsky.social
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🔗 https://www.bethdooner.co.uk/
🎨 Ink & watercolour illustrator based in the UK
💐 Lover of the whimsical, colourful, & energetic.
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Winter Landscape Project (15/15)
I hope this project can help you see the beauty in winter 🩵

Had to end on a snowy one! Really enjoyed creating this piece and seeing all the textures the watercolour makes.
A black and white painting of a snowy landscape, with snow on the trees and a tiny robin visible on a bench.
November 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Winter Landscape Project (14/15)
I hope this project can help you see the beauty in winter 🩵
Honestly, one of the views I will see most commonly in winter... okay not the bin bags but like, a common street, grey clouds, and barren trees
I can still see its beauty though.
Watercolour painting of a British street, with bare trees, a cloudy sky, and a punch of lilac bin bags all in a row.
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Winter Landscape Project (13/15)
I hope this project can help you see the beauty in winter 🩵

I also very much tried to not correct thing and let the paint do what it wanted when it left my brush, which has made it quite impressionistic I feel. Also gets across some of the sparseness in winter too.
Watercolour painting of leaves and flowers clinging on to branches in a sparse landscape.
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Winter Landscape Project (12/15)
I hope this project can help you see the beauty in winter 🩵

Foggy and misty days are a staple of winter for me. It's always interesting to see the world through a slightly dreamy lens and how mysterious everything looks.

Prints and original of this available soon!
A watercolour painting of a stream with a bank of bare trees surrounding it and reflected in the water. The sky is misty and the sun is barely visible through the fog. There is a brownish yellow haze over the image.
November 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Winter Landscape Project (11/15)
I hope this project can help you see the beauty in winter 🩵

One from the local park, celebrating that whilst the trees are bare, you get to see more of the beautiful skies that winter gives us.
Watercolour painting of a bandstand surrounded by bare trees and dark muddy grass. The sky is various shades of pink and blu and the image is overall pretty dark in its lighting.
November 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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I like to keep things professional on here but it's important to remember I am but a person and I too am somewhat flawed in places...
A screenshot of a conversation with the top speech bubble being "Time for PRODGE" and the send one being ".... oh man, my brain legit thought that was how you spelt Porridge for a second there...". The second one has a laughing emoji as a reaction.
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Illustration finally gets the London showcase it deserves 👀 www.creativeboom.com/news/illustr...
November 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Winter Landscape Project (10/15)
I hope this project can help you see the beauty in winter 🩵

I've long wanted to do this image as a painting and I've finally done it! I love the sunsets of winter so much, I just wish we had more daylight.

Final stretch now!
Watercolour painting of a pond surrounded by tress and reeds. On the left of the image, the sun is hitting the the tress so they glow bright gold. On the right, everything is in in shadow aside from the tops of the trees, which are gold. The pond is frozen and reflects the lighting above it. The sky is blue and has a curved moon in on the right hand side.
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Winter Landscape Project (9/15)
I hope this project can help you see the beauty in winter 🩵

This is one I was super keen to do, featuring the snowdrops that give us the hope of spring, but the barren shapes of winter that frame everything so beautifully.

Done with watercolour and gouache.
Painting of red branches growing from the ground with snow drops dotted across the image.
November 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.

So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Winter Landscape Project (8/15)
I hope this project can help you see the beauty in winter 🩵

Bit different this one, went for just pencil to capture the gloominess of the cemetery in the snow. I used to just be a pencil artist so it was nice to go back to my roots a little with this one.
Black and white pencil sketch of a cemetery in snow, with bare branches framing the image. In the centre is a gloomy looking church.
November 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Winter Landscape Project (7/15)
I hope this project can help you see the beauty in winter 🩵

This image is from Harrogate, I went during a Christmas market and was enchanted by this view of the houses overlooking the various colours and shapes in the park.
A watercolour painting of sandstone houses surrounded by bare trees with a touch of gold leaves on the left hand side. In the bottom left stands a single lamp post.
November 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Winter Landscape Project (6/15)
I hope this project can help you see the beauty in winter 🩵

We're back again with this project! A simpler one, based on the how the barren trees give us a better glimpse of the beautiful but brief sunsets with the early moon rising.

Enjoy!
Watercolour painting of a dusty pink, blue, and yellow sky with a moon in the central upper left of the image. In front is a large barren tree, partially obscuring the view.
November 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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As November happens I tend to find the transition point of Autumn to Winter becomes a little depressing, so I wanted to start my Winter Series backup!
Here are four of the images from earlier this year to whet your appetite, I'll be posting new ones every other day throughout November!
Watercolour painting of mossy branches and pine trees over a cliff. Watercolour painting of two swans on a lake, surrounded by bare trees. Watercolour painting of a misty lake with small bits of headland, on one is a bench. Watercolour painting of a snowy park with benches in a row.
November 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Not now, truck hauling monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and Covid
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October 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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IT'S. HECKING. AUTUMN.
Photo of a grave headstone with a cross, headless woman, and marker. There are yellow leaves in the background and scattered on the grave. A photo of a bench with a tree behind it with green and yellow leaves. On the floor is a bunch of yellow trees which gradually become orange. Photo of a cemetery, with a tall headstone under a yellow leaved tree. Photo of a park with the floor completely blanketed by orange leaves.
October 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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View Over The Valley.

This painting is based off a view near me, naturally, loved working with the autumnal colours and creating a little space for two people and their dogs to live 🧡
Watercolour painting of a two people sitting on a patio looking over their garden and the view beyond it. The garden has wooden decking, plant pots with plants, a red leaved tree, and a grassy slope with two dogs barking. The border to the neighbour's garden has a brick wall and shed, both of which have cats on. Beyond the garden is a view for miles of autumnal tress and fields. A train is visible in the distance.
October 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Big projects and commission work means I haven't been able to share much art lately, so have some recent Sketchbook Exploration.
Pinterest People & Intriguing Japanese Cocktails.
This is a nice colourful spread and some much needed gentleness amongst the bigger stuff.
The left side is a mixture of people drawn in pink and purple ink, surrounded by green watercolour. The right side is 9 watercolours Japanese cocktails surrounded by pink and purple watercolour.
October 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Strangest moment when I offer to make a round of tea for everyone in the house and they all say "no thank you"...
Like, has everyone been replaced with replicas? What is happening?!
October 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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My shop has been updated with 5 images from an old project to celebrate the new season!
(Since I can only upload 4 I guess number 5 is a surprise for Bluesky users)
They are printed on high quality paper and look just like the original paintings, support if you can! 🍂
www.etsy.com/shop/BethDoo...
Image of a hedge with an arch in the middle. The hedge has autumnal colours and is framed by pine trees. Painting of a red acer tree by a pond in a cool and crisp autumnal park. Painting of a green lamppost with autumnal hues around it. Close of up red and gold leaves on a branch which are backlit.
September 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Replacing "transgender is like ferrari" with "transgender is like microwave" from now on after this great bit
September 15, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Hugely deserved, he was incredible in the latest series of Severance
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Sep 15
“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys
September 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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No matter how much you disliked the direction Game Of Thrones went or the ending, we can hopefully all agree with one thing...
The opening still fucking slaps.
September 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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A Study In My Sketchbook

I am currently in the throws of a very big project with an ever looming deadline, so I wanted to share something from my sketchbook.

Here, I am doing some studies from paintings by Pre-Raphaelite artist Frederic Leighton, probably one of my favourites from that movement.
Black biro images over a mainly blue, pink, and yellow painted sketchbook spread.
August 31, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Yesterday, I sat outside and painted some images based on photos friends have taken.

The whole day was truly lovely, very much manifesting the life and feelings I want for myself.

Hope you like them.
Watercolour painting of a child in a dinosaur hoodie wandering into the sea. There is a purple hue to the painting, with a hazy sun that sparkles on the water. A painting of a figure in a pinkish blue sea. They are sweeping their hair back. In the distance in an orange bouy.
August 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM