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Paula’s
@paulajhoman.bsky.social
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Creatively living through gardening, watercolor, fitness and good cooking. I love the great outdoors and traveling to the wide open spaces. Retired from museum profession and grateful for once having the coolest job I could ever imagine.
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Spring path.
#Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2118.
Painting of a forest path in spring.
December 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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A quick little effort today that feels wintery.
#watercolor
#watercolorart
#winterwonderland
A white tailed doe stands in the foreground assessing her next move against a snow covered landscape with distant evergreens and a sky of snowy impressions.
December 14, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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There are only about 2 months left of the Year of the Wood Snake. Take this time to shed your past with intention. 💚🐍
“Chinese New Year 2025”

#watercolorandink #woodsnake #whimsical #nature #birdsandfish #fullmoon #orangemoon #gallaxy #mushroom #landscape #owl #whimslee #turtle #soothing #rabbit
December 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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From class today. A snowy scene in #watercolor, using the salt technique and a palette knife. #art #artist #watercolour #landscape
A snowy hillside with a line of some evergreens behind, and a little evergreen up front to the right. Some weeds peeking out of the snow.
December 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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One more piece for upcoming show at a local coffee shop with another artist. This one was fun—watercolor, pen and paper collage.
A clump of Spring daffodils among a leaf strewn garden patch. In the middle ground on the right is the suggestion of purple hyacinths and a tree in the distance. A quote is pasted on word by word. “My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth.” Lady Bird Johnson 2002
November 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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An entry (still tweaking it) for a juried show themed “Chasing the Light”. Work in progress but nearly there. In danger of overworking now I imagine.
Masted sailing ship heading into the sunset (Chasing the Light) with whales and birds. Behind the ship, an array of navigational symbols and random marks depicts the chaos that can chase us too!
November 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Continuing a series of watercolors that are statement pieces.
#watercolor
#watercolorart
#voice
Quote-It only takes one voice at the right pitch to start an avalanche, by Dianna Hardy—with stick figure holding sign at top of mountain and avalanche. Pink paper RESIST cutouts are from a Roger Waters concert “Us and Them” that I was at in 2017.
November 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Some #birdart
#watercolor
#watercolorart
Red winged blackbird sitting on previous years cattails.
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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I have finished “Peace Comes from Within” and preparing to frame it for a show I’ll be in about a month. The steampunk and satellite elements represent the distractions of life that can rob us of peace.
Bold black icons of peace from different cultures, set against a colorful background with a Buddha emerging from the play of colors. A steampunk man is running on a hamster wheel in lower left corner, steampunk bird flying into the space from right center and a satellite floats in dark space in upper right.
November 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Rather pleased with this new painting. Foxglove #painting #art #watercolour
November 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Working on a watercolor regarding Inner Peace. Will be adding at least one quote from Siddartha Gautama. Right now, the bird represents intrusive thoughts.
Watercolor with symbols of inner peace, with a Buddha in meditative pose and a steampunk bird flying in from the right. It represents intrusive thoughts.
October 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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I haven’t posted for ages it seems. Very busy with life so at least today, I am posting some earlier work just to remind myself to get back to this! Pen and ink with watercolor. Probably two years ago.
Bumble bee on a purple flower in a field of purple and red-toned flowers, buds and greenery.
September 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Fear is a paper dragon
This somehow came together.
#watercolor
#dragons
#watercolorart
Blue and red dragons in combat with two quotes. One from GK Chesterton and one from Gary Blaylock, author of Paper Dragons. Semi abstract background flows with pseudo “character” that resemble Kanji or Chinese characters. A far distant castle helps to place the view and the dragons high above the earth.
August 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Continued al no the theme of rules for a local show. Maybe I’ll get in. Should know in a few days. This one is themed around William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.
Themed around how we construct rules—who rises to power and how society breaks down, tribal aggression and lack of compassion. Imagery and quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
July 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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If you see this, post something pink

#watercolor
#watercolorart
A playful random watercolor from a couple years ago. Areas of color enhanced by details my mind saw. A fish in upper left. Trees in top center, abstract fruit shape in lower right. It was fun to play. I don’t do enough of that.
July 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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A piece I worked on for a juried show entry. Theme is “Politically Incorrect Correct”—inviting expressions of thoughts on political views, left, right, middle… This could be interpreted by the viewer for wherever they stand.
Rules are made to be followed/broken with two quotes, from Mark Twain and Henry David Thoreau.
July 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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The GOP budget bill is 1,116 pages long but it boils down to this one simple fact:

Republicans are facilitating a massive transfer of wealth to the richest Americans while making cuts that would rip away healthcare and food from millions of people.

It's Robin Hood in reverse.
May 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Damn right.
May 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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I’m in progress on a watercolor of Yukon River Camp, on the Dalton Highway. It was just really cool to be there.
#watercolor
#watercolorart
#alaska
Yukon River Camp located just north of the Yukon River on the Dalton Highway. On the left, a map of the route from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay gives perspective to this very remote location. My journey went as far as crossing g the Arctic Circle then retuning. We ate lunch and dinner at Yukon River Camp, where the blueberry pie was nothing short of spectacular.
June 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Kenai Fjords, Alaska, first attempt. I have a few things in mind to loosen it up and adjust some things. Used three colors—DS Ultramarine, DS Burnt Sienna and a recently acquired Sennelier Green Earth on 8x8 NYCentral watercolor cold pressed.
#watercolor
#alaska
#watercolorart
#landscape
View of shoreline along Kenai Fjords, Alaska, with rocky tower situated between shores. Pine trees crown the steep sided “island.”
May 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Watercolor on Arches, using Japanese Gansai watercolors. It is a waterlily variety, taken at the Japanese Garden at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Pink/magenta edged white water lily bloom, set against green foliage with yellow veining and bright sun highlights.
April 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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One of my older paintings just to put it out there.
#watercolor
#watercolorart
A lone tree on the right, on the edge of Moraine Lake in the Banff area of Canada. one of the moraines dominates the background. Misty clouds obscure the higher areas, as it has recently stopped raining.
April 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Triple Lakes Trail, Denali National Park. Japanese Gansai watercolor on Arches Rough 300 gr. Paper.
#watercolor
#watercolorart
#alaskalandscapes
#artyear
Triple Lakes Trail heading towards Denali Park Village. Either side of the trail has pines and some deciduous trees with a distant view of mountain right of center. Overcast sky provided some raindrops on parts of the walk.
April 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Shifting my style a bit and working towards more abstraction in landscapes. This is Hurricane Gulch in Alaska, from a train trestle about 1000 ft over the water.
#watercolor
#artyear
#watercolorart
#alaska
View of a deep gulch with water coming from two sources in the background misty hills (center and upper right). Left foreground represents the top of the tree canopy before the distant foliage lines the waterway.
March 31, 2025 at 6:40 PM