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Andrew Hoeschen
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Traditional watercolor artist from Saint Paul, Minnesota. Just a hobby, but I love creating and learning! My art mainly focuses on landscapes and cute critters!

Prints of my work are available at https://andrewswatercolormn.etsy.com
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The coast of Oregon 🌊🌲

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October 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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A simplified, cozy scene. I’m working on developing my ability to edit down and stylize a scene to emphasize the feeling of a painting.

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September 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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A coast somewhere

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July 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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A calming scene

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June 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Wet rocks again! I loved the layout of the reference I found. It had these cool cliffs with lots of trees and vegetation zigzagging around.

The reference was a bit dark and I found the water color a bit artificial. I love how the painting came out!

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June 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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A bit more experimentation with transparent water. I actually ended up struggling the most with the hilly forest in the background. It’s hard to find a balance between showing enough detail to inform the viewer and not painting every tree.

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June 7, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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I’m not sure how I feel about this one. I’m happy with how the underwater rocks came out, but a lot of other elements might have gotten overworked.

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June 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Still keeping watch.

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June 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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My latest watercolor! White ice and snow is never easy. I’m pretty happy with how it came out!

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May 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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I focused on practicing getting interesting textures and colors into grass here. It can be difficult to get detail in while keeping a sense of distance in the field. Here’s my latest attempt.

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May 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Covfefe.

Latte art in watercolor. It ended up being so much harder than I thought. It’s hard to preserve all that whitespace. What do you think?

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May 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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I just really, really like my mom’s cookies. This was fun to paint!

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April 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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It’s finished! A bit of spring for you here. A tulip in watercolor. So pleased with how this background idea came out!

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April 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Leaf coming later. What could go wrong with a single leaf…? Spooked, lol

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April 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Broadside!

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March 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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So, it’s sorta a repost, but I ended up fiddling with this one. Way too much. I practiced bird shapes beforehand, but I still ended up having to cover up a ton of them. That’s… what happened with the white swatches in the sky. It kinda works though?
February 17, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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A sailboat attempt

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February 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Used some paint on this one

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February 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Painted as a gift. I’ve been struggling with getting sloppy with my technique. I wanted this one to be a simple composition where technique and careful timing and layering are everything

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February 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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A bit moody. Really happy with the solution I came up with for the sense treeline here. Water was a bit of a rescue mission after my first attempt went wrong

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January 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Hello again #ArtAdventCalendar! Today we have a watercolor mountain I painted last night!

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This is a vertical watercolor painting of a mountain. The top of the painting is covered with a textured dark blue. The blue is faded to a purply red in vertical streaks that finally fade to a light blue that swirls around the mountain peaks. A white splatter covers the whole painting. The effect is a colorful, wintery sky with a light snow blowing through. A detailed mountain sits below the sky. Its highest peak reaches two thirds of the way up the painting. It is a skinny peak that is slightly angled to the left. The left side is shaded with blacks and blues while the right catches the sun revealing yellow and red rocks covered in white snow. Two more peaks sit below the tallest. One to the right and one to the left. Their colors and textures mimic the tallest creating a composition that guides the eye through the painting in a zig zag pattern from left to right and back to the left again at the bottom of the painting.
December 15, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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Hey #ArtAdventCalendar! Today’s post is a watercolor landscape I painted early in my art journey. I love how cheerful it is! I painted the flowers by starting with a pink layer and twirling my brush over it with some red. I was shocked how well that worked!

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This is a horizontal watercolor landscape painting. At the top of the painting a bright blue sky is cut through by wispy clouds. Mountains filled with subtle grays, blues, and purples reach just to the base of the clouds. A line of pine trees sit below the base of the mountains. The trees are far in the distance, so they’ve been painted with blues and greens that weave in and out of each other. A bright yellow and green field rests below the trees and reaches all the way to the bottom of the painting. Pink flowers are speckled throughout the field. The distant flowers are simple pink specks while those closest to the viewer have darker petal details that form circles around the flowers center.
December 11, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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For today’s #ArtAdventCalendar entry we have Timothy. Timothy’s a bird, and he’s feelin’ like he ate too many berries

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This is a horizontal watercolor painting of a bird. The bird is perched on a branch covered with snow. To the left of the bird, branches weave in and out on top of each other. Some branches are sharply defined, others are further in the background, blurry, and a bluish hue. Snow covers the branches, and tons of red berries hang from them as well. To the right of the bird, a light blue is used to show a snowy sky. The bird himself is quite chubby. He has a round, light brown body with dark brown wings folded behind him. His face is sharp and angular with a blue chin and a red mohawk
December 10, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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I’d go camping if it ended up like this. It doesn’t end up like this.

Just painted this one last night! Watercolor on paper.

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December 9, 2024 at 11:43 PM
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I’m late, but I didn’t forget! Hello, #ArtAdventCalendar! Today’s is my only successful flower painting, a humble tulip

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This is a botanical watercolor painting of a tulip. Its petals are filled with pinks and oranges with a touch of purple where the bulb meets the stem.
December 9, 2024 at 12:12 AM