Seasons Greetings lovely followers! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays if they apply to you. Whatever the period of time is for you, may it have a moment of cosiness like my little guy asleep on a pile of my laundry in front of a radiator whilst it's snowing outside. Thank you for being here 🩵

After finishing a couple of major projects I have been in desperate need of doing some stuff for myself which is pretty chill, doing a sketchbook spread about a really lovely autumnal day back in October really hit the spot for me. I really like the bottom right one, it might become a print someday.

Sharing a few of my faves from the Winter series, and you can purchase them in my shop, last day for postage before Christmas for the current P&P pricing is the 14th, with it going up a little before the 16th, with everything closing just after that. www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Beth...

For those who enjoyed my Winter Landscape Project, I wrote a blog on my main website which talks more about the origins, process, and thoughts behind each painting! Take a read or a look if you feel like it, I would really appreciate it 🩵 www.bethdooner.co.uk/blog/winter-...

I am sending off an original painting today! 🩵 It's always slightly bittersweet as it's something I created and worked on, but I am so happy to know it's going to a good owner and that they want to pay for the work I create.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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...

Illustration finally gets the London showcase it deserves 👀 www.creativeboom.com/news/illustr...

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!

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.

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

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.

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.

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!

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!

Not now, truck hauling monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and Covid

IT'S. HECKING. AUTUMN.

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 🧡

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.

Strangest moment when I offer to make a round of tea for everyone in the house and they all say "no thank you"... Like, has everyone been replaced with replicas? What is happening?!

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...

Replacing "transgender is like ferrari" with "transgender is like microwave" from now on after this great bit

Hugely deserved, he was incredible in the latest series of Severance

No matter how much you disliked the direction Game Of Thrones went or the ending, we can hopefully all agree with one thing... The opening still fucking slaps.

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.

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.

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.

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.

An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below). If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.

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.

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. 🩷🤍🩵🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

satellites* 🛰️🏳️‍🌈☄️ A painting I've done for Pride Month based off one of my favourite songs, satellites* by Enter Shikari.

how about no

EHRC Consultation form filled in. Draining and demoralising in places, but done. I hope it's enough, because holy shit...

satellites* 🛰️🏳️‍🌈☄️ A painting I've done for Pride Month based off one of my favourite songs, satellites* by Enter Shikari.

Working on a celestial themed image whilst listening to one of the most beautiful movie scores ever created. I am of course talking about the Kung Fu Panda 2 OST.

11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls

Some people can't work. You are just going to have to accept that. #TaxTheRich Universal Basic Income now.

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. 🌼🦋🌼

Several exciting things happened yesterday: 👓 - My new glasses arrived and WOAH is this how regular folk see? ✨ - My Howl's Moving Castle style cardigan arrived (this is the only cardigan I will ever willingly wear) and I LOVE IT. 🥯 - The bagels that were bought for the house are PRE-SLICED!

New video up on my Youtube! Just under 22 minutes, featuring various trips and content from Autumn and Spring, my favourite seasons. youtu.be/TBDA7XmHR6o

Me when uploading a nice varied page in my sketchbook and then realising how much alt text I then have to write for it 😅

Page in my Sketchbook This on the right hand side of the spread, and the whole sketchbook spread is just stuff I have saved and wanted to draw/paint over the years but never got around to doing. It was something I really needed 🥰 But yeah, really like this page, hoping you do too!

Spring is almost over, but I will always love the colours it brings. Somewhat of an imagined house, somewhat based off a house I saw one time. I think altogether it contains many houses I've seen over the years . Done with watercolour, ink, and pencil crayons. 🩵🌸🩵

Me: Ahhhh yes, this artwork is finished, I can finally close all my reference tabs 🥰 Also me: .... Hmm... I might need these "person holding spaghetti" references at a later date though 🤔

Also, saw Sinners recently... phenomenal film. Immediately wanted to watch it again once it was done. Was also a film I was very grateful to see IN the cinema.