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Tanya Tate
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Encaustic, watercolor and acrylic artist.
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#art #dailypainting
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Little stone gate sketch. #sketchbook #sketch #penandink
Pen sketch in horizontal sketchbook. Hatching in the background defines a tree shape. The foreground stone posts show their darker stone make up. The sketch is quick and unfinished.
August 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Beach sunsets are something special. #sketchbook #sketching #normandy #beach #watercolor
A vertical watercolor sketch of the beach on the coast of Normandy. In the distance is the pink glow of the setting sun. The lower 3/4 of the painting shows the beach with a divide between wet and dry sand. Small rocks dot the divide.
August 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Sketchbook back in action.
#sketching #normandy #granville
#sketchbook
A vertical pen sketch looking up a street in Granville, France. At the end of the street is a church spire. The street has cars parked on both sides with a motorcycle on the front left. The sketch has some red colored pencil showing flowering window boxes. A store front has blue on the right and a green store front is on the left.
August 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Maybe I just want to paint radishes forever? (8x8)
#acrylicpainting #stilllife #art #painting
Square acrylic painting of a bunch of radishes with their greens and three onions to the right side. All of the vegetables are on a round white plate and views from above. The painting is semi-abstract with teal and orange accents.
April 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Very pleased to have 4 pieces in the Gates Mills Ohio art show. #acrylicpainting #portraiture #art #painting
Me standing next to 3 paintings. 2 small and square, one medium sized. The larger shows a young woman’s face with beams of shadow falling across it. One smaller is a self portrait looking nervous and one shows two young girls wearing back packs and standing in strong back light.
April 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Little acrylic 6x6 from the weekend. Feels good to be painting a little bit more lately.
#acrylic #painting #stilllife #art
Square painting of radishes and their greens lying on a striped tea towel. The painting is rendered in semi-abstract blocky strokes with bright areas of gold/green and warm and cool reds for the radishes. The background is a dark blue-brown
April 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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I liked this one from figure drawing last night. #charcoal #drawing #lifedrawing
Charcoal drawing of a man wearing sweatpants and a sweatshirt. He is seated sideways in a chair with his right leg extended and his arm resting on the chair back. The figure is lit from behind with a strong edge of light across his face.
April 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Playing with pastels again.
Portrait of a teenaged girl with chin length blonde hair and green eyes. The pink of her skin is accentuated. Her gaze is out toward the viewer.
March 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Can’t decide if I like this or not. I was interested in the implied architecture of the lighting.
#acrylic #painting #portrait #art
Portrait of young woman’s face. The top crops just above her eyebrows. Lines of bright sunshine fall horizontally across her face and chest. Her eyes are looking to the left. The pink of her face and lips is accentuated.
March 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Hello there.
#watercolor #selfportrait #painting
Watercolor painting of women with her hands in front of her face. Her eye is peeking out between the forefingers. The skin tones are quite red and yellow with blue shadows.
March 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Beginning a chalk pastel portrait for a change of pace.
#februarty
#portrait
Soft chalk portrait of a teen girl with green grey eyes. Only the face has color and that is just the beginning layers. She is looking to the left with a serene expression.
February 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Beginning stage of a self portrait trying to capture some of the feelings of the moment.
Square acrylic painting of a green eyed woman with one hand holding her chin and one hand with fingers pressed into the side of her face. She looks wide eyed and a bit nervous. Her hair is brown, she has a dark teal shirt and the background is a bright cool yellow.
February 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar for today is an acrylic onion.
Somewhat abstract painting of a red skinned onion. The peel is in shades of maroon and crimson with a few orange highlights. There are some small teal accents.
December 23, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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Today’s #ArtAdventCalendar is a small 6x7 acrylic on paper.
Square acrylic painting of radishes and their greens. The radishes are red and orange. The brush strokes are somewhat blocky. The background is a tan kitchen towel with thin navy stripes.
December 21, 2024 at 11:50 PM
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Back to #ArtAdventCalendar after missing a few days due to Covid. This one is just summer in a glass.
Semi-abstract painting of a glass of ice water with a lime wedge floating in it. The glass is surrounded by three lemons, two of which are cut off by the paintings edges. The background is a tan towel with thin maroon stripes. The glass casts a strong purplish shadow to the lower left.
December 21, 2024 at 12:27 AM
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Another house portrait for #ArtAdventCalendar. This one got a little perspective as a treat.
Watercolor painting of a singles store cottage style house with a wide front porch. The house has pale yellow siding and dark brown shutters.
December 14, 2024 at 2:27 AM
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Everything looks better in a frame.
#ArtAdventCalendar
#acrylicPainting
Landscape painting in a gold frame. A prominent cloud with blue underside is in the upper left. There is a lone oak tree in a field in the lower right. The painting strokes are somewhat square and blocky.
December 13, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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Today’s #ArtAdventCalendar is a detail from an encaustic shellac burn. It’s very freeing to have to let the media do its own thing.
A bubbly dark streak over patches of golden green, white, teal and grey.
December 12, 2024 at 1:27 AM
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Little 6x6 encaustic piece from a while ago. I would like to get back into these.

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Square painting in wax showing a Birds Eye view of plowed fields. A small red dot could be a farmhouse. The very top of the painting faded to sky.
December 10, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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Today’s #ArtAdventCalendar offering is a 6x6 acrylic of some cactus flowers.
Square painting of cactus with yellow flowers. There are three flowers which are fully open. The yellow is bright and cheery.
December 10, 2024 at 3:11 AM
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Today’s #ArtAdventCalendar is a detail from a watercolor house portrait. Really enjoyed the brick patterning on the gable above the door.
Detail of a watercolor of brick house showing the entry with a stone surround and wood door. The photo is at a slight jaunty angle.
December 8, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar today. Some Queen Anne’s Lace.
Semi abstract painting of queen Anne’s lace flower heads. They are white with grey/purple shadows. There is a seed pod in the lower right.
December 7, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Summer still life. Missing the sun today.
Slightly abstract painting showing a canning jar surrounded by a few cherry tomatoes and some asparagus. The shadows are quite purple. The background is a red stripped cloth.
December 6, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar. Really enjoying seeing all the different types of art being created in the world.
Some what abstract painting of swampy area with yellow patches of reeds. A large cloud with supple pink patches is in the sky. The horizon is very slightly below the midpoint of the canvas.
December 5, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar today is a throw back to my poster design for the city centennial.
Poster depicting a trolley car with people wearing clothing from different periods of the last 100 years. The main color palette is dusty yellow, green, orange and shades of navy blue.
December 5, 2024 at 3:21 AM