A abstract watercolour painting/collage. Against a stormy grey sky, two stacks of nested semi-circles curve toward the centre of the painting from opposite corners. They are painted with warm and cool greys, Some are textured, some are solid, some are striped, and some are streaky.

April 9, 2026

Paints: Payne’s Grey, Mars Black
Techniques: Paper Towel Lifting, Collage

9 x 14.5 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

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A abstract watercolour painting. A large, vaguely rectangular, green-gold blob takes up the centre of the painting. In the middle are two green blobs that have been outlined in thick pale yellow lines. In the top right and bottom left corner are smears of dark forest green. In the other corners are organic green polka dots.

April 8, 2026

Paints: Boreal, Quinacridone Gold
Techniques: Lifting, Flat Cardstock Drag

9 x 14.5 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

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A abstract watercolour painting. Two bright white vertical stripes reach most of the way up the right half of the paper. Behind them is a sparkling blue and purple background with blotches reminiscent of the lunar surface.

April 7, 2026

Paints: Wintery Night (mica), Grape
Techniques: Isopropyl Alcohol, Tape Resist

9 x 14.5 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

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A watercolour painting of two long, pointy, sparkling blue-grey fish on a saturated blue background. One fish is pointing up and the other is pointing down. They have large silvery eyes with blue rims.

April 6, 2026

Paints: Ultramarine, River Rock (mica)
Techniques: Wet-on-wet, Negative Space

9 x 14.5 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #dragAndDrop #OnlyBeautifulThings #fish #fishArt #sardines

A watercolour painting of two golden spheres hanging in a hazy pink sky. Behind them are a smattering of stars. Below are pink rolling hills and a sparkling golden lake.

April 5, 2026

Paints: Cherry Magenta, Fairytale Gold (mica)
Techniques: Splatter, Sponge

9 x 14.5 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

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A watercolour painting of two quarter circles; one pale red orange with green and dark red splotches, the other minty green with red-orange and vibrant green splotches. They are in opposite corners of the painting. Between them are red-orange and green splatters. It feels like two planets breaking up in each other’s gravitational pull.

April 4, 2026

Paints: Cadmium Red (Pale Hue), Salish Sea
Techniques: Splatter, Dropping in paint

9 x 14.5 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #dragAndDrop #OnlyBeautifulThings #abstract #abstractArt #splatter

A watercolour painting of a large dusty purple frog with a spotted pale yellow and purple belly. It’s mouth is a frown and above it, in the deep purple sky, buzz two black flies.

April 3, 2026

Paints: Butter (gouache), Violet
Techniques: Wet-on-wet, Masking Fluid

9 x 6 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #dragAndDrop #OnlyBeautifulThings #frog #frogArt

A watercolour painting of two apples on a deep red-brown background. The apples are pale pink with sparkling silver spots and stippled with the same deep red-brown as the background. Their stems are sparkling silver.

April 2, 2026

Paints: Mars Violet, Steelhead (mica)
Techniques: Stippling, Splatter

9 x 6 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

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An abstract watercolour painting. The background of the painting is split multiple times into grey and red-orange, with each split layered on top of the next to produce a range of saturations and combinations of the colours. Over a saturated red-orange area is a white circle with a smaller black circle inside it. Over the equivalent grey area is another white circle with a red-orange circle inside.

April 1, 2026

Paints: Cadmium Red (Pale Hue), Ivory Black
Techniques: Glazing, Tape resist

9 x 6 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #dragAndDrop #OnlyBeautifulThings #abstract #abstractArt #abstractPainting

A watercolour painting of two very long fish, one bright magenta pink, the other a cool vibrant green. Their bodies extend off the page and curve back around so that their tails are visible. Or maybe it’s four fish, but the theme is 2 so…. Anyway, they’re on a green to magenta gradient that makes a nice lavender colour in the middle, and they’re surrounded by little bubbles in the water.

March 31, 2026

Paints: Cherry Magenta, Salish Sea
Techniques: Isopropyl alcohol, Tape resist

9 x 6 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #dragAndDrop #OnlyBeautifulThings #fish #fishArt #oneFishTwoFish

A watercolour painting, split in two. In the centre is a large circle. The left side is white with pale blue blotches and resembles the moon. The right side is mottled dark blue, resembling a mound of plants. The background is also split in two, with dark blue on the left and sky blue on the right. A thin white line runs through the middle of the background from top to bottom.

March 30, 2026

Paints: Cerulean, Almost Night
Techniques: Sponge, Dropping in paint

9 x 6 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #dragAndDrop #OnlyBeautifulThings #circle #halfAndHalf #splitView

A watercolour painting of a large pale green number 2 that is stacked on top of increasingly large 2s in darker shades of green so that their edges peek out a bit from behind the top-most 2. Behind it is a mottled green background with smaller number 2s scattered around.

March 29, 2026

Ivory Black + Sap Green
Masking fluid + Negative Space Painting

9 x 6 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #dragAndDrop #OnlyBeautifulThings #numberArt

New #rollandpaint theme!

To celebrate two years of these daily paintings of mine, I'm going to create a series of paintings with two paints + two techniques. They'll be randomly chosen, as always, and the subject of each painting will have something to do with the number 2.

Tara Gibbs Using randomness to inspire daily watercolour paintings

As of yesterday, I've been creating a small #rollandpaint painting every day for two years.

I'm excited to share that I now have a website with all my work, organized into easy to navigate galleries.

www.taragibbs.com

A small abstract watercolour painting. An abstract landscape. A red-orange bush, brown and blue trees, the pale while streak of a stream.

March 28, 2026

Cadmium Red (Pale Hue), Nicosia Raw Umber, Prussian Blue

9 x 6 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #dragAndDrop #OnlyBeautifulThings #abstractArt #abstract

A small abstract watercolour painting. Three thick vertical lines in shades of black, grey and taupe stretch up the paper, like three skyscrapers.

March 27, 2026

Orca (mica), Payne’s Gray, River Rock (mica)

9 x 6 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #dragAndDrop #OnlyBeautifulThings #abstractArt #abstract

A small abstract watercolour painting. Thick and thin lines of deep sparkling blue, pale icy blue, and lemon ocher criss-cross and blend together.

March 26, 2026

Ice Colour (gouache), Wintery Night (mica), Lemon Ocher

9 x 6 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #dragAndDrop #OnlyBeautifulThings #abstractArt #abstract

A small abstract watercolour painting. Three coral-like branches in greenish brown and mint, with faint sparkles.

March 25, 2026

Nicosia Green Earth, Italian Green Umber, Shell (mica)

9 x 6 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #dragAndDrop #OnlyBeautifulThings #abstractArt #abstract

A small abstract watercolour painting. A zig-zag of bright yellow, green, and blue with a faint shimmer. Where the colours meet, they mix together. Along the top edges of some of the zigzags a few shorter lines stretch up.

March 24, 2026

Cobalt Blue Hue, Poplar Yellow, Lake Trout (mica)

9 x 6 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

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A small abstract watercolour painting. A rough rectangle in teal, deep red-brown, and black with streaky gaps and disconnected edges.

March 23, 2026

Ivory Black, Hematite, Lake Huron Teal

9 x 6 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

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A small abstract watercolour painting. Wavy stripes in magenta, purple, and pale green criss-cross the painting and merge into a large speckled mass running vertically through the middle of the painting.

March 22, 2026

Cherry Magenta, Sap Green, Grape

9 x 6 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

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A small abstract watercolour painting. A grey and greenish-yellow ocher coloured blob with a pale centre and a sharp shadow beneath it. It looks like a silhouette of a cartoon character with a bulbous nose, resting his left hand on his belly while his right arm hangs by his side.

March 21, 2026

Indigo, Italian Green Umber, Lake Trout (mica)

9 x 6 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

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A small abstract watercolour painting. A grid of thick and thin lines in red, green, and orange. Where they meet, the colours bleed into one another creating new colours. Some of the lines are wavy or on a diagonal.

March 20, 2026

Burnt Sienna, Phthalo Green, Strawberry

9 x 6 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

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A small abstract watercolour painting. Thick, organic, vertical stripes in speckled grey, dark yellow, and pale blue. It reminds me of tree bark patterns.

March 19, 2026

Robin’s Egg (gouache), Yellow Ochre, Mars Black

9 x 6 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #dragAndDrop #OnlyBeautifulThings #abstractArt #abstract

A small abstract watercolour painting. A large, textured block in shades of magenta and soft pink, with darker splotches and lighter dots. Up the left side is a thin, rough, streak of pink.

March 18, 2026

Cherry Magenta, Crimson Ocher, Wild Rose (gouache)

9 x 6 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

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A small abstract watercolour painting. Shades of yellow and deep orange form an abstract cityscape.

March 17, 2026

Lemon Yellow, Orange Ocher, Grasshopper

9 x 6 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

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A small abstract watercolour painting. A thick, undulating, vertical stripe in magenta, black, white. The colours blend together where the different paints meet and form shades of pink, grey, and deep cherry red.

March 16, 2026

Cherry Magenta, Chinese White, Payne’s Gray

9 x 6 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #dragAndDrop #OnlyBeautifulThings #abstractArt #abstract

A small abstract watercolour painting. Thin vertical stripes connected diagonally across the top, middle and bottom. They are red at the top and transition through medium and then dark brown. This painting reminds me of the Roman Colosseum.

March 15, 2026

Alizarin Crimson, Italian Brown Ocher, Nicosia Raw Umber

9 x 6 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #dragAndDrop #OnlyBeautifulThings #abstractArt #abstract

A small abstract watercolour painting. Vertical stripes of pink and mauve, with sparkling green-gold between them, and forest green streaks beneath. The mauve streak on the right is dotted with light spots. It reminds me of a city sunset.

March 14, 2026

Boreal, Permanent Rose, Green Gold (mica)

9 x 6 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #dragAndDrop #OnlyBeautifulThings #abstractArt #abstract

A small abstract watercolour painting. Thin, irregular stripes of pink, red-orange, and grey in a grid. The pigments blend together where they meet to create lavender, peach, and other colours.

March 13, 2026

Cadmium Red (Pale Hue), Graphite, Quinacridone Magenta

9 x 6 cm, 100% cotton cold-press watercolour paper

#watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #dragAndDrop #OnlyBeautifulThings #abstractArt #abstract