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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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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.
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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
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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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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.
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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

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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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I’m in progress on a watercolor of Yukon River Camp, on the Dalton Highway. It was just really cool to be there.
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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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Second effort. I think I like I better than the first attempt. There are some good qualities to be found in both. This one has a consistent sky where it meets land, and scale is a bit better on the foreground rocky projections.
Second version of same image—rocky promontories along Kenai Fjords in Alaska.
May 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Starting a new painting. You can see where it’s going. Hurricane Gulch in Alaska, view from high above it on train tracks. Spectacular misty day.
Beginning of my watercolor rendition of the reference photo posted and described here. Challenging myself to try a different style and so far…has promise. Right side foreground is nearly complete with trees on steep sides of gulch. BG fades into mist. Will be adding water details and left side of gulch. View of dense green forest and steep gulch to meandering white water, from high perspective. Distant terrain fades back to blend with grey misty sky. Actual photo printed on paper as my reference.
March 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Went to a watercolor workshop with Marilynne Bradley yesterday and produced these from reference paintings she had done. She used only a small flat brush, works quickly and is fearless with color. I had fun.
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Monochrome study of values for our first exercise. Landscape with grasses and trees, path leading from front left to center background. Landscape of tall leggy trees with puffy foliage. A path leads from the far right foreground to the center background. Distant hills and trees are soft blues with foreground using strong colors and minimal detail. Full color version of the monochrome also attached here. Warm colors of gold, yellow and greens mix with cool blues in shadows and distant trees.
March 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Back to the Alaska landscape of Turnagain Arm sunset. Feeling like I’m close now. But I think I need some integration of the middle ground with what I just added. Suggestions or comments welcome.
Sunset view on Turnagain Arm in Alaska, from train as we went to Anchorage from Seward. Mountains flank the rosy glow of the already settled sun with a cloudy sky reflecting yellow and rose tones. Foreground grasses and vegetation are green islands in shallow water along the tracks (not visible).
March 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Working on a landscape from Alaska, another view from a train heading to Anchorage from Seward along Turnagain Arm. Not quite finished but I’m liking it so far.
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View of distant mountains and sunset across body of water—Turnagain Arm in Alaska. The foreground has vegetation and water but not quite completed.
March 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Daffodils in snow against a darker background suggesting a shrub or tree on the left and perhaps more distant flowers on the right.
March 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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I was traveling by train in Alaska last August and was treated to so many amazing views. Here is one on the route going from Anchorage to Seward.
An expanse of green springs from a foreground of water with some floating plants. The hills and snow covered mountains rise in the background on a cloudy day.
March 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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A view of dark clouds over South Dakota open range from my own reference photo taken in 2019.
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Dark clouds drifting over open land in South Dakota.
February 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM