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Tracey Thekla Rolandelli
@rolandelli.bsky.social
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Professional artist in Sonoma County California. Specializing in watercolor. Covid cautious. #psoriaticarthritis Some Kinda Socialist ☦️ #orthodoxchristian #maskup disabled rights, 🚫AI art, neurospicy ♾️
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Trees. Plein air. #art #watercolor #watercolour #pleinair #autumn
A small, narrow sketchbook, vertically shown, with autumn trees painted in watercolor across the two pages. Reds, oranges, yellows and greens.
November 21, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Today’s practice from my class, working with washes and fog. #watercolor #watercolour #art #artist
A watercolor of a distant hillside or mountain in the fog, with a small island closer in the foreground, also surrounded by fog, and a lake side up front. Cypress evergreen type trees.
November 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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From Saturday’s plein air paint, a bright yellow ginkgo with succulent plants in front of it. From the McDonald Ave neighborhood in Santa Rosa, California. 9x12 inches. #art #artist #watercolor #watercolour #pleinair #sonomacounty
A bright yellow ginkgo tree with succulent plants in front of it, depicted in watercolor.
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Practice from my class. Not from life, but negative space work. #art #watercolor #watercolour #sketch #practice #artist
A winter scene with many bare trees in the background in white and off white colors. Dark brown bare tree, a stump, and a smaller bare tree in the foreground. Snow is purple where there is shading.
November 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Feeling moody today. #pleinair #watercolor #watercolour #art #artist #landscape
A moody, wet, watercolor in black and hues of blue. Bare trees, part of a fence.
November 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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"Three Friends on a Gray Day", 4 x 6 inches, #watercolor #pleinair. #Art #artist #watercolour #landscape
Three autumn trees in bright reds, oranges, yellows and greens.
October 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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It’s Tree Tuesday!
The pistachio tree is plein air, the others are studio practice.
#watercolor #art #artist #pleinair #trees
An autumnal pistachio tree in vibrant reds, oranges, yellows and greens. A twisty oak tree with burnt umber leaves in watercolor. Three evergreen trees in watercolor. One Jack Pine, one Weeping Pine, one Blue Spruce.
October 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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#pleinair #art #gouache #watercolor #sonomacounty #artist
A green grass and trees area near a small creek.
October 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Learning new texture techniques for creating rocks in watercolor.

#art #watercolor #watercolour #artist #painting #rocks
Four rocks in watercolor with heavy texture created in them.
October 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Today’s little #sketch. #art #watercolor #tree #autumn
A watercolor sketch of the top of a tree in autumn. Some yellow, gold, green leaves, and bare branches. Blue sky.
October 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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A large boulder in Tombow ink and crushed grass. #art #artist #inktober #ink #watercolor #pleinair
A large boulder in black ink and green grass pigment.
October 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Today's practice. Six different styles of watercolor treatment of an object. Hard edge, overlapped edge, linear edge, wet-n-wet, those four combined, and a faded edge. #watercolor #watercolour #art #artist #sketch
6 different styles of watercolor apples on a page. Red apples and a green background.
October 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Ok I finished it. I just wanted extra pencil on the stems, that’s it. #Watercolor of wild grape leaves in Santa Rosa. #art #artist #inktober #sonomacounty #autumn
Watercolor of autumn colored wild grape leaves.
October 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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A study of autumnal wild grape leaves in #watercolor. I think I will pencil #sketch the branches a bit more. For a unique contrast. #inktober #autumn #art #artist
A watercolor of autumn colored wild grape leaves.
October 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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#art #inktober #sketch #watercolor
A dark big tree with its trunk as the main focus. Vertically over two pages in a sketchbook.
October 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Small 4 x 4 inch #sketch of a landscape in Tombow #ink. #art #inktober
A black and grey watery sketch of a landscape with rocks, thin trees and grasses.
October 6, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Two minute #sketch of my Tortie Siamese cat. She is polydactyl. #art #inktober
A big Siamese type cat stretched out being cute. Black ink.
October 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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My quick 1 minute sketch of my friend Jeff at church. #art #sketch #inktober
A quick sketch of a man with a beard and short hair, wearing a collared shirt with a pattern. "1 minute sketch of Jeff at church, TRolandelli".
October 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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For #inktober day number 2, a live sketch while I was at a sushi restaurant. I sketched the plate quickly before eating and then added the background images that were farther away on a shelf.
A rectangular plate of sushi and a traditional Japanese female doll in the background with sake bottles.
October 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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I’m going to join #inktober this year. Let me catch up.
Here is a #sketch from last week, using Tombow pens. For day 1.
The head of a traditional Roman like statue, similar to David, depicted in black and grey water based ink. He is looking to his left and there are strong shadows.
October 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Today we worked on color wheels in the SRJC watercolor class on zoom. I’m not new to blending colors but I have to admit I rarely do primary only blending. So this was good practice today. #art #watercolor
A color wheel circle in watercolor.
October 1, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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From my walk in the park. #art #watercolor #pleinair #artist #landscape
A watercolor of a path next to some brushy woods. Lots of green.
September 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Happy St. Thekla Day!
I was able to go to a divine service today and my priest was so thoughtful, he opened all the doors and windows so I could avoid Covid. It was a very small group and I was masked, and took communion first. (I've become very skilled at dropping down the Gerson duckbill quickly!)
A byzantine style icon of St Thekla in a gold frame. She is holding a bejeweled book in her left hand and a Russian style cross in her right hand. She has two hair braids and a decorative "halo" around her head. She is wearing robes and the background of the icon is golden. It's behind glass.
September 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Today was using a Tombow black pen to replicate a statue. I chose a classic Roman style bust. #art #watercolor #ink #sketch #statue #artist
A sketch in water soluble ink of a classic Roman statue bust of a young man. He is looking to his left and has curly hair.
September 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Today at plein air I sketched the top of the greenhouse at Luther Burbank Home and Gardens, with my Tombow pens. #art #artist #pleinair #sonomacounty #watercolor #sketch #sketching
A mostly grey scale sketch of a Victorian greenhouse at the top of the roof. It has a fancy finial on top and an open window. Glass panes and the top of a green plant to one side.
September 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM