Alison J Taylor
@alisontaylorbc.bsky.social
I'm an artist and web developer living in BC, Canada (on the traditional land of the shishalh people). I love art, cats, chocolate, European pastries, painting and gardening, and I'm passionate about preserving the biodiversity of life on Earth.
So much gorgeous art showing up on the Art Advent Calendar hashtag! I'm enjoying how this artist has combined printmaking with paint.
‘Reflection’
4” x 6”
Screen print, interference pigment, gouache and ink
Yesterday’s certainties are provisional. Stay curious.
#artadventcalendar #printmaking #mixedmedia #sciart
4” x 6”
Screen print, interference pigment, gouache and ink
Yesterday’s certainties are provisional. Stay curious.
#artadventcalendar #printmaking #mixedmedia #sciart
December 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
So much gorgeous art showing up on the Art Advent Calendar hashtag! I'm enjoying how this artist has combined printmaking with paint.
I like how simple and contemporary the design of this stained glass is. I wonder how the artist got those lines and speckles on the top piece of glass?
Day 11
I always assumed stained glass needed light behind it but this is how the owner chose to display it to brighten up the corner of her room.
#ArtAdventCalendar
#StainedGlass
I always assumed stained glass needed light behind it but this is how the owner chose to display it to brighten up the corner of her room.
#ArtAdventCalendar
#StainedGlass
December 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I like how simple and contemporary the design of this stained glass is. I wonder how the artist got those lines and speckles on the top piece of glass?
I love how this artist has handled the paint. So evocative.
#ArtDD2025
Deer (roe?)
For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 11
From a great 📷 by Jordan Cormack, with thanks.
@saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social
Deer (roe?)
For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 11
From a great 📷 by Jordan Cormack, with thanks.
@saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I love how this artist has handled the paint. So evocative.
What a cool idea... a painting that can be reassembled into different designs! And gorgeous rendering of those marbles...
Day 11 #ArtAdventCalendar
“Keepies 1-9” 6x6” each
9 painted wood block canvases that can be play with… modular art, stack, hang, display.
Mounted on a Velcro panel.
“Keepies 1-9” 6x6” each
9 painted wood block canvases that can be play with… modular art, stack, hang, display.
Mounted on a Velcro panel.
December 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
What a cool idea... a painting that can be reassembled into different designs! And gorgeous rendering of those marbles...
Wow... look at the details on this carving! What an expressive face.
#artAdventCalendar
"Moon Song" - Kukuwesk, the Owl.
Steatite - stone
approx. 8"X10" (4-5 lbs.
I gifted this one to my daughter.
"Moon Song" - Kukuwesk, the Owl.
Steatite - stone
approx. 8"X10" (4-5 lbs.
I gifted this one to my daughter.
December 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Wow... look at the details on this carving! What an expressive face.
What gorgeous line work!
#artadventcalendar day 11
Category is FEET.
It's three for one today, with three drawings, each framed and ready for a new home.
ZEALOUS was drawn in a single continuous line. It's a picture imagining medieval folks in the grip of a magical dancing fever, caused by hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Category is FEET.
It's three for one today, with three drawings, each framed and ready for a new home.
ZEALOUS was drawn in a single continuous line. It's a picture imagining medieval folks in the grip of a magical dancing fever, caused by hallucinogenic mushrooms.
December 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
What gorgeous line work!
Sharing another abstract, by someone who shares my name. :-) Pink is such a gorgeous colour, isn't it?
December 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Sharing another abstract, by someone who shares my name. :-) Pink is such a gorgeous colour, isn't it?
Day 11 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar.
A little 4x6 inch abstract painting in oil on canvas. Called "Just Me".
A little 4x6 inch abstract painting in oil on canvas. Called "Just Me".
December 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Day 11 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar.
A little 4x6 inch abstract painting in oil on canvas. Called "Just Me".
A little 4x6 inch abstract painting in oil on canvas. Called "Just Me".
Day 10 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar.
The first piece I ever had accepted at a juried show, at a local gallery in my small town, quite a few years ago. It's called "The First Inkling of an Idea". Something like 14 x 18 inches. Oil on canvas.
The first piece I ever had accepted at a juried show, at a local gallery in my small town, quite a few years ago. It's called "The First Inkling of an Idea". Something like 14 x 18 inches. Oil on canvas.
December 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Day 10 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar.
The first piece I ever had accepted at a juried show, at a local gallery in my small town, quite a few years ago. It's called "The First Inkling of an Idea". Something like 14 x 18 inches. Oil on canvas.
The first piece I ever had accepted at a juried show, at a local gallery in my small town, quite a few years ago. It's called "The First Inkling of an Idea". Something like 14 x 18 inches. Oil on canvas.
Day 9 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar.
A little landscape. Oil on canvas. Probably around 8 x 6 inches.
A little landscape. Oil on canvas. Probably around 8 x 6 inches.
December 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Day 9 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar.
A little landscape. Oil on canvas. Probably around 8 x 6 inches.
A little landscape. Oil on canvas. Probably around 8 x 6 inches.
Wow, these look complex to make! Would be nice to have one for the top of my Christmas tree. :-)
Some #stars for #ArtAdventCalendar day 9.
#Moravian #geometry #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #tradition #origami #creativity #Advent #DIY #Herrnhut #Christmas
More in ALT
#Moravian #geometry #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #tradition #origami #creativity #Advent #DIY #Herrnhut #Christmas
More in ALT
![In this picture there are 3 origami-folded Moravian or Herrnhut stars - one large purple, and two smaller white ones. The largest is about 8” across, and the smaller about 5”.
They are 3-dimensional with 16 points.
They sit on a wooden floor in front of a glass door to the outside. Leafless trees can be seen in the background.
Nearly 200 years ago in Saxony, Germany, a math teacher in a Moravian school created a star for his students to demonstrate geometric principles.
That star went on to be known as the Moravian star, and today is hung in homes across Europe, during Advent, Christmas and Epiphany.
These softly glowing stars in windows or hung from eaves, porches, and balconies, can represent different things to each of us. In the mid-winter celebration of light, the star can be a comforting reminder of brighter days to come.
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A nomadic lifestyle of traveling ‘light’ means limited resources to spruce-up for Christmas [spruce up . . . get it?! Sorry - couldn’t resist.]
As such, the Christmas season has become a bit of a decorative non-event, but last year in Dresden we kept seeing hundreds of these multi-pointed stars hanging from balconies, trees, doorways, bell-towers, and I got to thinking - I wonder if there’s an instruction book? And so these were born.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2fvuyiwxi7cu2eytxybnshxn/bafkreih5rytl2uqlqlrdwmj6xwp2ievmcwz26rg27lszgutapuiofv5yle@jpeg)
December 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Wow, these look complex to make! Would be nice to have one for the top of my Christmas tree. :-)
Isn't this gorgeous? I love the colour scheme and the varied patterns.
Day 9 of #artadventcalendar is last years cute 4 shaft weaving sampler. I loved doing this. Should do some more.
December 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Isn't this gorgeous? I love the colour scheme and the varied patterns.
I have experimented with alcohol inks. They are difficult to control. I'm impressed with what this artists has managed to achieve with them!
Go see my friend Nicole at the Cochrane Farmer's Market this weekend, for her gorgeous and incredibly vibrant alcohol ink originals! We've got 3 of her pieces in our house 😊.
www.cococreationscochrane.com
#yyc #ArtAdventCalendar
www.cococreationscochrane.com
#yyc #ArtAdventCalendar
December 10, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I have experimented with alcohol inks. They are difficult to control. I'm impressed with what this artists has managed to achieve with them!
I love the style of modern quilts with their solid fabrics. This one has a beautiful selection of colours.
December 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I love the style of modern quilts with their solid fabrics. This one has a beautiful selection of colours.
What a great sight to catch on camera!
#artadventcalendar Day 9. I captured this special moment with a mother fox nursing two of her kits while on high alert this spring in southern Alberta.
December 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
What a great sight to catch on camera!
Day 8 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar.
One of my all-time favourite creations. It's one of the few times I managed to move away from intense colours. And it's the second-largest painting I've ever made.
It's called "Lifting the Weight Off". Oil on Canvas. 36 x 24 inches, I think.
One of my all-time favourite creations. It's one of the few times I managed to move away from intense colours. And it's the second-largest painting I've ever made.
It's called "Lifting the Weight Off". Oil on Canvas. 36 x 24 inches, I think.
December 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Day 8 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar.
One of my all-time favourite creations. It's one of the few times I managed to move away from intense colours. And it's the second-largest painting I've ever made.
It's called "Lifting the Weight Off". Oil on Canvas. 36 x 24 inches, I think.
One of my all-time favourite creations. It's one of the few times I managed to move away from intense colours. And it's the second-largest painting I've ever made.
It's called "Lifting the Weight Off". Oil on Canvas. 36 x 24 inches, I think.
Day 7 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar.
This is "Mesa Fortress". 24 x 24 inches. Oil on canvas.
It's the first larger painting I ever sold. I was hanging a show with 2 friends in a local business and it was still on the floor. A customer walked in and asked if it was for sale. I was thrilled!
This is "Mesa Fortress". 24 x 24 inches. Oil on canvas.
It's the first larger painting I ever sold. I was hanging a show with 2 friends in a local business and it was still on the floor. A customer walked in and asked if it was for sale. I was thrilled!
December 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Day 7 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar.
This is "Mesa Fortress". 24 x 24 inches. Oil on canvas.
It's the first larger painting I ever sold. I was hanging a show with 2 friends in a local business and it was still on the floor. A customer walked in and asked if it was for sale. I was thrilled!
This is "Mesa Fortress". 24 x 24 inches. Oil on canvas.
It's the first larger painting I ever sold. I was hanging a show with 2 friends in a local business and it was still on the floor. A customer walked in and asked if it was for sale. I was thrilled!
What a cutie!
And isn't the quality of light in this photo amazing?
And isn't the quality of light in this photo amazing?
On Day 7 of #ArtAdventCalendar, I offer up a Porcupine in a Tree. #wildlife
December 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
What a cutie!
And isn't the quality of light in this photo amazing?
And isn't the quality of light in this photo amazing?
Wow... Our #artadventcalendar organizer, Jay, is a talented guy! Paintings + stone carving.
I'm going to do another #artAdventCalendar post tonight because my last one had such a poor photo (only one i have of it)
Here's a soapstone carving I did in 2019 of a white breasted nuthatch.
Here's a soapstone carving I did in 2019 of a white breasted nuthatch.
December 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Wow... Our #artadventcalendar organizer, Jay, is a talented guy! Paintings + stone carving.
Can you believe these are cupcakes!!?
Day 7 of the #ArtAdventCalendar. An edible entry this time around. These are vanilla cupcakes with American buttercream that I made for my sister’s birthday in April. I don’t do decorative piping often, but when I do, it’s always nice to challenge myself and these were fun.
December 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Can you believe these are cupcakes!!?
A lovely photo of a very cool looking cave.
Motes of dust suspended in Sunbeams within a lava tube in the Mojave Desert. #Photography #ArtAdventCalendar
December 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
A lovely photo of a very cool looking cave.
Day 6 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar.
A small painting from a series I did for art school years back. It shows a pier in Trail Bay, Sechelt, the town near where I live. A friend who is also a painter purchased this one.
A small painting from a series I did for art school years back. It shows a pier in Trail Bay, Sechelt, the town near where I live. A friend who is also a painter purchased this one.
December 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Day 6 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar.
A small painting from a series I did for art school years back. It shows a pier in Trail Bay, Sechelt, the town near where I live. A friend who is also a painter purchased this one.
A small painting from a series I did for art school years back. It shows a pier in Trail Bay, Sechelt, the town near where I live. A friend who is also a painter purchased this one.
Day 5 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar.
An older work called "In the Pacific". I still have it. It's 24 x 24 inches, oil paint on canvas.
Back when I had it hanging in the dining room, I was so pleased when my young nephew guessed that this abstracted work was a painting about the ocean.
An older work called "In the Pacific". I still have it. It's 24 x 24 inches, oil paint on canvas.
Back when I had it hanging in the dining room, I was so pleased when my young nephew guessed that this abstracted work was a painting about the ocean.
December 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Day 5 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar.
An older work called "In the Pacific". I still have it. It's 24 x 24 inches, oil paint on canvas.
Back when I had it hanging in the dining room, I was so pleased when my young nephew guessed that this abstracted work was a painting about the ocean.
An older work called "In the Pacific". I still have it. It's 24 x 24 inches, oil paint on canvas.
Back when I had it hanging in the dining room, I was so pleased when my young nephew guessed that this abstracted work was a painting about the ocean.
I love this piece of embroidery. So natural looking...
#artadventcalendar 2025 day 5
Wet Feet, Deepdale.
More information on this work, including detail, inspiration and a work in progress animation, can be found here
https://cognissart.co.uk/wet-feet-deepdale/
@textileart
@fiberarts
#waterfall #art […]
[Original post on mastoart.social]
Wet Feet, Deepdale.
More information on this work, including detail, inspiration and a work in progress animation, can be found here
https://cognissart.co.uk/wet-feet-deepdale/
@textileart
@fiberarts
#waterfall #art […]
[Original post on mastoart.social]
December 6, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I love this piece of embroidery. So natural looking...
It's not too late to start sharing your artwork with the #ArtAdventCalendar tag! Come join us all in lightening up the dark days of winter (here in the Northern Hemisphere) by sharing your creations.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
It's not too late to start sharing your artwork with the #ArtAdventCalendar tag! Come join us all in lightening up the dark days of winter (here in the Northern Hemisphere) by sharing your creations.