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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

I really like how the fabrics are rendered at the bottom of this drawing. Great line work.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Took me a few moments before I noticed the subtle face hidden in the rocks!

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

A striking black and white photo of Glasgow. I love strong light-dark contrasts in art. Makes for a dramatic visual.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Day 24 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar. An abstract that I call "Still a Ray of Hope". (I hope that's still true in these days of advancing climate change.) The white bit is unpainted canvas and the painting wraps around the edges. Size 24 x 24 inches. Oil on canvas.

An abstract painting that is mostly a moody deep blue visually textured surface, with green areas. A white band (with soft edges) runs for about 1/3 of the way from the left side across to the right side of the painting, where it goes around the edge of the canvas. There are brown areas adjacent to the4 white band.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Day 23 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar. My art school graduation project (years ago): a painting of a pedestrian pier in the town near my home. I've removed the hand railings for a more streamlined composition. Something like 30 x 40 inches. Oil on canvas.

A painting of a pier jutting out into the water. The pier is concreted and the water is dark blue. The sky is pale yellow. The pier starts at the top left and ends at the mid-right.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

It's amazing how things can be rendered so accurately with solid areas of patterned paper. I love the dog's expression on this.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I like how the papers, paint and stitching are combined to make this mixed media artwork on canvas.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Hard to believe these aren't real tree trunks! Especially that one on the right. At first I thought it was a reference photo...

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Very cool photo. Great colours, lighting and unique subject matter.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Day 22 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar. A 6 x 6 inch painting of a creek rushing down rocks. Oil on canvas. This is one of a set of three paintings of creeks and rocks with the same size, colours and style.

An abstract painting that looks like whitewater rushing down a rocky cliff. Done in blues, whites and black, with some green bits.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Day 21 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar. Another painting of a BC Ferries funnel, created back when I was taking the ferry to and from art school. This one is more graphic in style than the one I shared earlier this month. Something like 24 x 36 inches. Oil on canvas.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

What a sweet portrait of this primate. The quality of light is beautiful.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

What an evocative clay sculpture. I wonder what it will look like once the glaze firing is complete?

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I'm really taken with how the hair is rendered in this lovely pencil drawing.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

What a dramatic photo! This looks like an interesting park to visit.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Day 20 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar. A small painting of an imaginary hillside with a few remaining tall evergreen trees. About 7 x 5 inches. Oil on canvas.

A photograph of a small painting sitting on grey concrete steps. It shows a hillside rising towards the right, with a few remaining tall evergreen trees still standing, that have few branches. The painting is quite monochrome, made using a dark greyish green colour mixed with various amounts of white. There are a few deep blue marks.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Day 19 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar. This is "Helping Out". 7 x 5 inches oil on canvas. Shown framed and sitting on concrete steps.

A small painting shown framed in black frame sitting on grey concrete steps. The painting shows a stick figure viewed from the site, walking to the right. It has an orange head and holds an orange object between its arms.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Day 18 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar. An older painting of an imaginary mountain range. I grew up on the slopes of mountains on the North Shore of Vancouver BC. This painting harks back to those. Oil on canvas-covered board. Something like 11 x 14 inches.

An asbtract painting of an imaginary mountain range. Mostly in whites and greys with touches of colour. Lots of swirly brush marks in one darker area at the bottom right.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Beautiful photo of a beautiful place...

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Which is the real one, indeed! That felted creation is amazingly accurate. (And very cute, with the tongue hanging out.)

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

What a gorgeous rendering of this sheep. It amazes me what people can do with graphite and an eraser.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Day 17 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar. Oil paint on canvas, with a glossy medium. About 16 x 20 inches. I called it "Deep Beneath the Soil". Made it years ago, and was delighted when it sold through the local gallery's members show. Still one that I love.

This is an abstract painting that can be read as a simplified landscape. The top 1/3 is blue sky (white down near the horizon) and the bottom 2/3 is dark ground. Variation in darkness and colour, and transparency, make for visual interest.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Day 16 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar. This painting came out of a week long workshop where, for one project, we were encouraged to paint a 'map' of something. I choose a local marina. There are orange docks, white boats and a blue line representing the edge of the shore.

An abstract painting with a grey/white background. It represents a birds eye view of some docks, a dock building and a gazebo at the end of the dock, all rendered in red, orange and yellow. Small quite rectangles represent boats in the water. A blue curved line represents the edge of the shore.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Look at how this painting glows! Some day I'd like to try pastels.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I didn't see the fox till I read the hash tags. I like it as an abstract too.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

What a gorgeous, glassy red surface this ceramic creation has. And those dots! I bet this was pretty tricky to make and a bit nerve-wracking to put into the kiln.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Art advent calendar is rocking the fibre arts this year! So many great creations, like this needle felted cat.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Wow... Check out the incredibly detailed stitching in this thread painting. I really like how graphic the style is.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Day 15 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar. One of many paintings I've made that have just a flat landscape and a sky. I enjoy playing with the brushmarks and colours with this simple composition.

A simply composed painting of a flat landscape with bright green ground covering the bottom quarter of the canvas and a cloudy sky with bits of bright blue peeking through above.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Day 14 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar. Oil on canvas. Something like 24 x 20 inches. Under this painting is an older work I was really struggling with. One day, in a fit of pique, I started painting over it in frustration, and this landscape quickly emerged. It reminds me of a windy prairie day.

A loose, abstract rendering of prairie landscape. There's an ochre coloured flat ground and a bright blue sky, both made with energetic visible brush strokes, that evoke a windy environment.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

You don't see too many works in bronze in the art advent calendar, so this one caught my eye! There's something a bit whimsical about this fellow (gal?) that appeals to me.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Living in a place that mostly rains in the winter, I find photos of snowy scenes to be beautiful. (But I won't complain because I can be out working in the garden some days from December to February.)

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

As someone who loves a good vegan sausage, this gave me a good chuckle.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I'm really enjoying seem the art people make with stitches and embroidery in this year's art advent calendar.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Wow... what incredible detail. And what a beautiful material to work with.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I love the stitching on this work. Gorgeous colours and texture.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Day 13 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar. While at art school (part time) I took the ferry from my community to art school once a week. I ended up making a number of paintings of the ferry funnel, often including the distinctive logo of BC Ferries that is on it.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Day 12 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar. One of a number of paintings I made of this walking pier for an project while at art school.

A concrete pier painting in oils with lots of brush marks showing in the blue water and blue sky. The posts of the pier are brown, the rest of the pier is pale grey and the railings have been omitted.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

So much gorgeous art showing up on the Art Advent Calendar hashtag! I'm enjoying how this artist has combined printmaking with paint.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I like how simple and contemporary the design of this stained glass is. I wonder how the artist got those lines and speckles on the top piece of glass?

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I love how this artist has handled the paint. So evocative.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

What a cool idea... a painting that can be reassembled into different designs! And gorgeous rendering of those marbles...

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Wow... look at the details on this carving! What an expressive face.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Sharing another abstract, by someone who shares my name. :-) Pink is such a gorgeous colour, isn't it?

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Day 11 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar. A little 4x6 inch abstract painting in oil on canvas. Called "Just Me".

An abstract painting of a strange figure that is made up of three orange shapes linked by dark lines in charcoal. On a blueish grey background of painterly marks.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Day 10 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar. The first piece I ever had accepted at a juried show, at a local gallery in my small town, quite a few years ago. It's called "The First Inkling of an Idea". Something like 14 x 18 inches. Oil on canvas.

An abstract painting of what looks like a strange rounded white building with a grey window sitting on a sage green ground against a moody grey sky. A chocolate brown lean to on one side, a red blob on the ground just below it and a yellow shape near the top of it.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Day 9 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar. A little landscape. Oil on canvas. Probably around 8 x 6 inches.

A loosely painted landscape with a ground of earthy greens and yellows, with touches of greyish purple. There is a dark band of trees along the horizon and a greyish-blue sky with touches of lavender.

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Alison J Taylor @alisontaylorbc.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Wow, these look complex to make! Would be nice to have one for the top of my Christmas tree. :-)

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