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Lauren Douglas
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Day 24 of #ArtAdventCalendar is my current stitching WiP. I'm working on it in the waiting room for the ferry 🎄🎁🤶
A close up of an embroidery project in a hoop. There are three partial colourful circles. There is some red-violet thread in a needle sticking into the black fabric in the central circle.
December 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Day 23 of #ArtAdventCalendar is another mermaid. This one is from 2021
A hand is holding an embroidery project of a mermaid with her hand under her chin. The mermaid is outlined in black thread. Her hair is filled with a gradient of many colors. Some of her scales are also coloured in with the colours in her hair
December 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Day 22 of #ArtAdventCalendar is this drawing from 2011
An ink drawing of a chickadee on a branch. Under the ink you can see the blue pencil drawing
December 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Day 21 of #ArtAdventCalendar is my acrylic painting of my barred owl moon fine 2022
An acrylic painting of a waxing crescent moon on a circular canvas. The craters on the moon are not realistic. It's a vibe-based moon. In the shadow of the moon is a purple barred owl. Surrounding the moon is a matte sky with stars. The painting is hanging in a blue wall
December 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Day 20 of #ArtAdventCalendar is an acrylic painting from August 2021
An acrylic painting of matte black profile with leaves behind and leaves & there red flowers in front. The plants are very stylized and overlapping on top of each other in several hues of green. Some layers of paint are scratched away to create the forms and veins of the leaves & flowers
December 20, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Day 19 of #ArtAdventCalendar is this like embroidery thing I made.. I was trying to make a forest creek from above. I don't think it was successful as such, but I like the textures
A piece of textile art made of lots of different embroidery stitches. It looks like there's a creek in the lower left corner and a fallen tree in the lower right. With some (oversized) purple flowers in the middle
December 19, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Day 18 of #ArtAdventCalendar is another one I'm not sure wholly counts as art, but I've been putting all my leftover paint on this canvas for a couple years. I think it's done and I'm starting a new one in the new year
Many layers of acrylic paint applied to a canvas with a palette knife. Dominant colours are pinks greens and grays.
December 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Day 17 of #ArtAdventCalendar is one of the mermaids I embroidered a while ago.. maybe 2021?
An embroidered mermaid, mostly in black thread. Her hair is filled in with orange, red & purple thread. The mermaid is stretching in a circle shape with her tail fins almost touching her head. The stitching has lots of little mistakes and you can still see some of the mostly erased pencil under-drawing
December 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Day 16 of #ArtAdventCalendar is a moon painting from 2023 before I decided to challenge myself by making the moon more realistic. It's more of a vibes-based moon :P
An acrylic painting of a waning crescent moon on a matte sky background. In the shadowed party of the moon are two bunnies, blue & pink with some clover behind them
December 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Day 15 of #ArtAdventCalendar is a card I made for one of my sisters back in 2023. It's watercolor on cotton with embroidered details
A hand holding a card with a cutout window. Inside the circular window are pink cosmo flowers on a green background. The flowers are painted on cotton with watercolors. The details of the flowers are embroidered on top. Written in black cursive on the lower right edge of the circle is "Happy birthday Amy!" A pen is hooked on the corner of the card. In the background of the photo is grass & a sidewalk
December 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Day 14 of #ArtAdventCalendar is the first painting I did when I decided to take up acrylic painting in 2020 (I was, and remain, nervous about my use of colour lol)
A stylistic acrylic painting on a square clear-primed canvas. In the middle of a simple maze made of white bricks is a flat black silhouette of a bust of a minotaur. The minotaur has simple white tattoos all over. Coming out of the minotaur's back is a sword. On the bricks of the maze is illegible graffiti in charcoal
December 15, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Day 13 of #ArtAdventCalendar a cute little mushroom I saw today
A little yellow orange mushroom growing out of bright green moss with some brickwork in the background. The kinda blurry focus makes it look a bit whimsical
December 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Day 12 of #ArtAdventCalendar is another moon painting this one is from November 2023. The nootka roses don't look quite right but 🤷‍♀️ 😅
A circular acrylic painting of a waning gibbous moon on a matte black to blue gradient sky with stars. In the shadow of the moon are painted a few pink nootka roses. The painting is hanging on a light blue wall
December 13, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Not sure if these little guys count for day 11 of #ArtAdventCalendar but I made these little felt ornaments for my sisters last year
Red & white star ornaments made out of felt hanging off a pencil taped to a wood post
December 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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I missed a couple days of #ArtAdventCalendar but here's a drawing from 2011/12, based on a photo my sister took
A pen & ink drawing of a donkey laden down with bags and baskets of books. The drawing has no background and you can see the blue pencil sketch under the ink. In blue pencil, it says Burrobiblio in the lower right
December 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Day 7 of #ArtAdventCalendar some pokemon for my nephew's birthday presents 🤷‍♀️😅
Two presents held up to the camera in one hand. The presents are wrapped in brown paper and decorated with sharpie & pencil crayon drawings of three pokemon (meltan, turtwig & chimchar). There's a window in the background
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Day 6 of #ArtAdventCalendar I made some needle felted birds as ornaments one xmas and my nephew wanted another one so I made him this owl last year
A needle felted Great Horned Owl standing on foam. There are two needles poked into the foam in front of it
December 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Day 4 of #ArtAdventCalendar a red-breasted nuthatch card I made for my brother-in-law's bday in 2023
A watercolour painting of a red-breasted nuthatch with pencil crayon additions on card stock
December 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Day 4 of #ArtAdventCalendar this is from a couple years ago. I do these textile things more as a form of drumming than trying to make art but I like the way the colours interact
My hand is holding an embroidery hoop with black fabric on it. On the fabric are spiralling running stitch circles of different coloured thread overlapping with each other
December 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Day 3 of #ArtAdventCalendar I finished this in August of 2023
Acrylic painting of a matte black silhouette of a woman, surrounded by a variety of flowers, including poppies, sweet peas & bindweed
December 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Day 2 #ArtAdventCalendar I finished this acrylic painting in March
Acrylic painting on a circular canvas hanging on a blue wall. The painting is of a waning gibbous moon that takes up the whole canvas. In the dark part of the moon is a painting of a blackberry bush with a light green moth on one of the leaves. The moth is a Blackberry Looper.
December 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Thought I might give #ArtAdventCalendar a try. These are some bunnies I doodled while waiting to see if I would have jury duty
Two bunnies drawn in graphite on a page with some illegible notes. Both bunnies seem to be eating, one dandelion leaves, the other grass.
December 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM