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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.
☕️ Support me at: ko-fi.com/bethdooner
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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The Journey Back
This is a piece I've been meaning to do for a while, based on long coach journeys back after being somewhere.
I also let the acoustic version of "Smiling At Strangers On Trains" dictate the mood of this piece <3
Done with watercolours, gouache, and pencil crayons.
Gold and purple painting of a femme woman sitting on a coach, looking out of the window, where we can see blurred watercolour images of cars and people. Her expression is melancholic and we can see her reflection. Her phone is resting in her lap.
August 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Dearly Beloved Rival

An image created for the game Empire LRP, featuring my character and... well, her dearly beloved rival following their dreams at the cost of each other's.

Created in the art style of two nations in the game, made using watercolour, gouache, pencil crayons, and mica pigments.
A reversible image of two people looking outwards towards their goal. Upright we have a woman figure surrounded by herons, preaching to a pale city rising out of the ground. Upside down, we have a man surrounded by rooks, sailing towards a burning series of islands, with one untouched in the middle. They are joined by a light blue force that connects them, with small figures of the two of them dancing on both sides, with a circular labyrinth symbol in the middle. Above the woman is a golden sun, above the man is a red comet. There are small constellations visible in the force that connects them. Same as the previous image but it is flipped so that the man on the boat is the upright figure.
July 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Perspective Check

This is a painting of the Koko Head Trail in Hawai'i, I was super inspired by all the shades of green, straight lines, and yeah, the sudden change in perspective - Based off a photo from my partner.

Done with gouache paints.
Gouache painting of the Koko Head Trail in Hawai'i. There are two distant figures in the centre of the image. Our eyes follow a rail track down the centre of the image which shits to a different perspective above the figures head, with a town visible in the background. The image is surrounded by green leaves and long grass.
July 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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We Keep Going

Based off a photo an acquaintance of mine uploaded, artistically altered in places, but the original image inspired something 💜

Let's keep supporting each other and listening.

🩷🤍🩵🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
A watercolour painting of two people walking under a pride umbrella on a rainy day, viewed from behind. The person on the left has long hair with pink dye at the end, they have are wearing a trans flag as a cape. The person on the right is holding the umbrella, is dark skinned, has tight curly hair, and is wearing a bi flag as a cape. The right foot for the person with the trans flag is mid step so we can see the sole, which has the Lambda symbol on the soul. The left foot for the person with the bi flag is mid step and we can see the Queer People of Colour Pride flag on the sole. There is a reflection of their shoes and flags in the water, some of the raindrops are causing mini rainbows. The distance is grey, but rainbows are still visible.
July 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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satellites*

🛰️🏳️‍🌈☄️

A painting I've done for Pride Month based off one of my favourite songs, satellites* by Enter Shikari.
A painting of folks soaring through the night sky with various pride flags coming from them, representing them as comets. On the bottom left and top right of the image are two folks reaching out to each other, spinning in motion, with light shining on them but no trails coming from them.
June 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Been super busy with projects and big paintings, so I went back to basics with this one, as a treat.

This is our neighbour's cat (who we call Moo Cat) looking up into some flowers opposite our house. I saw him doing it the other day and had an urge to make it into an illustration.

🌼🦋🌼
A watercolour painting of a black and white cat looking up at some yellow flowers on a wall. Just above his nose is a white butterfly and there are two others among the flowers.
June 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Me when uploading a nice varied page in my sketchbook and then realising how much alt text I then have to write for it 😅
Image of the "joey delayed reaction" meme from the show FRIENDS. On the left panel the character Joey is giving a content smile. On the right panel, his eye are wide in surprise or horror.
June 3, 2025 at 11:50 AM