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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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Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you!

The size is just a coincidence. It worked with the dimensions of the roll of watercolour paper I purchased.

Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 8h

October 13, 2025

Rosy Sunset

Paint: Cobalt Orange, with red-orange, red, and red-violet
Colour Scheme: Analogous (4)

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #gravity #wetOnWet #landscape #landscapePainting #sunset

A landscape watercolour painting. The sun sets behind rows of mountains. The sky is a brilliant orange and pink gradient with a few fluffy pink clouds at the horizon. The mountains glow red with reflected sunlight.

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Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 1d

Salamander, a paint from Beam Paints, contains mica which makes it sparkle beautifully in the light.

Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 1d

October 12, 2025

Stacked Ripples

Paint: Salamander (mica), with red-violet, blue, and yellow-green.
Colour Scheme: Square

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #gravity #wetOnWet #abstract #abstractArt

An abstract watercolour painting. Three stacked circular ripples in sparkling pale orange, white, and deep blue on a pale hazy background of diagonal stripes of magenta, yellow-green, and grey-blue.

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Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 2d

October 11, 2025

Hazy Pines

Paint: Salish Sea
Colour Scheme: Monochrome

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #gravity #wetOnWet #landscape #landscapePainting #monochromatic #forest

A monochromatic landscape watercolour painting in green. Pine dotted hills under a hazy sun.

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Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 3d

October 10, 2025

Candy Floss Sunset

Paint: Lake Huron Teal, plus orange and red
Colour Scheme: Split Complementary

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #gravity #wetOnWet #landscape #landscapePainting #sunset

A landscape watercolour painting. The sun sets behind a thin strip of mountains. Above, the sky is filled with streaky clouds in pink, yellow, and orange, with blue breaking through the clouds near the top of the painting.

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Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 4d

Please let me know if you share what you end up making! Would love to see it!

Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 4d

October 9, 2025

Sunrise hills

Paint: Raw Sienna, plus red, green, and blue-violet
Colour Scheme: Square

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #gravity #wetOnWet #landscape #landscapePainting

A landscape watercolour painting. The sun rises behind rolling hills. The sky is a glowing pale yellow colour. Clusters of leafy trees grow along the ridges of the hills. The most distant trees are pale dusty lavender against the bright sky, while the nearest ones are deep green.

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Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 4d

How’er y’now?

Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 5d

Wintery Night contains mica, which has made the sky in this painting sparkle.

Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 5d

October 8, 2025

Moonlit Hills

Paint: Wintery Night, plus yellow-orange, and red-orange
Colour Scheme: Split Complementary

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #gravity #wetOnWet #landscape #landscapePainting

A landscape watercolour painting. The moon is nearly full in a sparkling deep blue sky. Below, are three rolling hills.

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Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks! 😊

Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 6d

October 7, 2025

Glen is Hungry

Paint: Lemon Ocher, plus orange, blue, and violet
Colour Scheme: Tetrad

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #gravity #wetOnWet #landscape #landscapePainting #monster #creature

A landscape watercolour painting. The sun peeks out from behind a blue mountain range. The sky is a pale orange and yellow gradient. Over one peak, a massive, fuzzy purple creature appears. Its large eyes glisten in the light. As it smiles ever so slightly, it’s fangs visible, it gasps the ridge of the peak as if it’s considering taking a big bite out of it.

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Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 7d

October 6, 2025

Neon Ripples

Paint: Sap Green, plus red and violet
Colour Scheme: Split Complementary

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #gravity #wetOnWet #abstract #abstractArt

An abstract watercolour painting. Several sets of concentric rings in black and white against a background of fluid pink, purple, and green. Perhaps they’re ripples on the surface of water.

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Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 7d

I immediately turned on reduced motion in my settings. It’s just too swishy!

Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 8d

October 5, 2025

Big Moon

Paint: Italian Brown Ocher, plus red, yellow, blue-green, and blue-violet
Colour Scheme: Double Split Complementary

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #gravity #wetOnWet #landscape #landscapePainting #waterfall

A landscape watercolour painting. A massive crescent moon hangs in the air above a tree-topped cliff. To one side, a thin waterfall slices down the cliff into a pool. In the foreground is a smooth rock slope.

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Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 9d

October 4, 2025

Moody Hills

Paint: Phthalo Blue, plus orange
Colour Scheme: Complementary

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #gravity #wetOnWet #complementary #landscape #landscapePainting #sunset

A landscape watercolour painting. The setting sun is visible between two trees hills. Beyond, the sky is orange and streaked with hazy clouds. In the foreground are sloping hills, sparsely dotted with trees.

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Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 10d

October 3, 2025

Paint: Ercolano Red, plus blue-violet and yellow-green
Colour Scheme: Triadic

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #gravity #wetOnWet #triadic #landscape #landscapePainting #mountain #conjunction

A landscape watercolour painting. A strange celestial conjunction appears over a rocky red mountain. At the foot of the mountain is bright spring greenery. In the foreground, a leafless tree is silhouetted along the left side of the painting.

Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 11d

Green Gold is another sparkly paint from Beam Paints. Here’s a video to show how much it shimmers.

Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 11d

October 2, 2025

Lake Shimmer

Paint: Green Gold (mica), plus yellow, red-orange, and violet
Colour Scheme: Square

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #gravity #wetOnWet #analogous #landscape #landscapePainting #mountain #sunset

A landscape watercolour painting. The sun starts to set behind rolling purple grey mountains. The sky is yellow and orange with wispy grey clouds. In front of the mountains is a shimmering green lake.

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Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 12d

The light is so lovely in this!

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Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 12d

Lake Trout, from Beam Paints, is an indigo pigment mixed with mica to give it an amazing sparkle.

Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 12d

October 1, 2025

Winter Pine

Paint: Lake Trout (mica), plus blue-green and green
Colour Scheme: Analogous (3)

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #gravity #wetOnWet #analogous #landscape #landscapePainting #forest #winter

A landscape watercolour painting. An evergreen, sparkling with snow crystals, stands before treed and rocky hills under a clear night sky.

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Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 13d

September 30, 2025

Neon Haze

Paint: Quinacridone Magenta, plus blue, green, and orange
Colour Scheme: Tetrad

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #gravity #wetOnWet #tetrad #landscape #landscapePainting #forest #sunset

A landscape watercolour painting. The sun shines low in the sky against a bright & hazy pink and orange sky. Mist blurs trees in the distance, while the trees and hills in the foreground appear just slightly diffused.

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Tara Gibbs 🍁 @burntflowers.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks! 😊