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A Wild Ransom
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Artist | Geologist | Cotton Candy Sky Chaser
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“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
~Vincent Van Gogh

#watercolor #landscape #arttherapy
February 7, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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When I was first introduced to watercolors, I hated them…with a passion. What I wanted was control and perfection.

I have reintroduced myself to them and I truly enjoy using them. The less you think and the more you let go, the more magical they are. It is art therapy, put the color on the paper.
February 7, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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“The wild is where I feel at home; it reveals the true essence of who I am.”
~Bhuwan Thapaliya

#watercolor #forest #dailysketch
February 7, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
~Edgar Allan Poe

#watercolor #dailysketch #forest
February 6, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’” ~Sylvia Plath

#watercolor
February 6, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
~Haruki Murakami

#forest #mountain #watercolor #abstract #landscape #storm #clouds
February 5, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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“This is how we dreamed. Moonlight in our mouths, love on our lips and summer in our skies.”
~Marie-Kristin Hofmann

#watercolor #abstract #landscape #sunset #sunrise #dailysketch
February 5, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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“Let there be room left in your heart for the unimaginable ~ serendipity has a way of showing itself just when you feel like giving up.”
~Nikki Rowe

#mountain #landscape #abstract #stormy
February 4, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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“She’s an old soul with young eyes, a vintage heart, and a beautiful mind.”
~Nicole Lyons

#mountain #landscape #watercolor #stormy #abstract
February 4, 2026 at 1:13 PM
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“You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.”
~Roman Payne

#dailysketch #mountains #watercolor #clouds #cottoncandyskies #sunrise #sunset #landscape
February 3, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.
~Aaron Lauritsen

#watercolor #landscape #arttherapy #sunset #sunrise #cottoncandyskies #glimmer #tinypaintings
February 3, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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“Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.”
~Theodore Roethke

#mountain #mistymountain #landscape #watercolor #watercolorart #stormyskies #abstract #cottoncandyskies #tinypainting
February 2, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

#cottoncandyskies #sunrise #sunset #mountains #nature #abstract #watercolor #landscape
February 2, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”
~Frederick Douglass

#sunshine #sunrise #sunset #light #watercolor #landscape #dailysketch
February 1, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
~Albert Camus

#abstractlandscape #winter #watercolor #snowy #glimmer #tinypainting

It’s still snowing this morning. It’s is a small delight in uncertain times.
January 31, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
~Harriet Beecher Stowe

#sunrise #sunset #mountains #morning #watercolor #landscape
January 30, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”
~Jacques Cousteau

#ocean #sunset #sunrise #landscape #watercolor #arttherapy
January 28, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”

~Louisa May Alcott

#sunshine #sunrise #watercolorart #landscape #ocean
January 27, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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"All good things are wild and free."
~Henry David Thoreau

Some days I miss the high desert, the sunrises, the smell of sage after a sudden rain.

#desertsunrise #sunrise #sunset #landscape #watercolor #cottoncandyskies
January 27, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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“The sky broke like an egg into full sunset, and the water caught fire.”
~Pamela Hansford Johnson

#sunset #sunrise #cottoncandyskies #watercolor #landscape
January 26, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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“Every sunrise is a poem written on the Earth with words of light, warmth, and love.”
~Debasish Mridha

#sunrise #sunset #cottoncandyskies #watercolorart #landscape #arttherapy
January 26, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”
~Washington Irving

#love #sunset #watercolor #arttherapy
January 25, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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“Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?”
~William Blake

#watercolor #arttherapy #landscape #sunrise #sunset
January 25, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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"If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be
the magic hour."
~Victoria Erickson

#autumn #change #cottoncandyskies #watercolorart #landscape #abstract
January 24, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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“Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight." ~Melody Lee

#sunset #sunrise #moonrise #moon #moonlight #cottoncandyskies
January 23, 2026 at 12:06 PM