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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ
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Artist-cartographer on a detour from landscape architecture. Exploring plant ecology/geography, islands, volcanoes, in watercolor maps and the real world. darrensears.com darrensears.substack.com YouTube.com/@darrensears.worldviews
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· Jun 4
I’ll start things off by sharing a few of my watercolor maps! They’re like cubist mosaics, capturing experiences of islands and contrasts in nature - desert oases, rare mountaintop ecosystems, β€œactual” (oceanic) islands - by combining multiple views together.

#cartography #biogeography #watercolor
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· 13d
Where is this exactly? I keep seeing images of this particular crater….
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· 13d
More on the origins of my #WatercolorMaps - some works inspired by an artist residency in Iceland a few years ago.

#Art #SciArt #Iceland #Volcanoes #MixedMedia #Topography #Geology #Landscape #ImaginaryMaps #FantasyMaps #FantasyLandscape
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· 22d
Just finished the first layer of shadows on my current #watercolormap - trying out a #timelapse for the first time!

#Art #ArtTimelapse #PaintingTimelapse #WatercolorTimelapse #ArtProcess #PaintingProcess
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· Sep 26
#Imaginary #island design, part of the origin story of my current watercolor #maps

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#Art #EcoArt #NatureArt #SciArt #EnvironmentalDesign #Climate#FantasyMap #MapArt #FantasyArt #Ecotourism #EcoLodge #IslandEscape #IslandAdventure
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· Sep 11
More on the origins of my #WatercolorMaps - #LandscapeArchitecture, #photomontage, #OilPainting

#Art #ArtInspiration #ArtVideo #CreativeProcess #BlueskyArt #ArtSky #FantasyArt #SurrealArt #AbstractArt #EcoArt #MapArt #AbstractLandscape #NatureArt
Origins of the Watercolor Maps, Continued | From Design Back to Paint
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· Aug 26
Nice to try it out in person at the ICC!
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· Aug 19
Excited to be attending this year’s International Cartographic Conference in Vancouver! A lot of great maps in this year’s Exhibition - my Cape Town-inspired watercolor (upper left in second image) is one of the US entries.

#icc2025 #maps #cartography
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· Aug 15
The cloud forest/savanna contrast there is fascinating.
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· Aug 14
Lone #Mangrove near #Broome, #WesternAustralia.

I use a lot of my photos to make immersive watercolor maps! Learn more at YouTube.com/@darrensears.worldviews

#Seascape #AbstractLandscape #AustraliaLandscape #AustraliaNature #TravelAustralia #Landscape #SurrealLandscape #LandscapePhotography
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· Aug 10
Where is this?
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· Aug 10
#Palm #oasis in #AnzaBorregoDesert State Park, CA.

One type of β€œisland” my watercolor maps are based on! Learn more at YouTube.com/@darrensears.worldviews.

#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #AnzaBorrego #DesertPlants #Desert #CaliforniaNature #CaliforniaPlants #Climate #CaliforniaArtist
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· Aug 5
Immersive #watercolor #map of VolcΓ n Villarrica, #Chile.

Find some background to these maps and their inspiration here:

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#Art #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #SciArt #NatureArt #Collage #Volcano #CubistArt #Cartography
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· Aug 2
First video in a series sharing the process behind my watercolor maps! Featuring an in-progress work inspired by the wild landscape of a #SanFrancisco urban park.

#Art #SciArt #EcoSky #SanFranciscoArtist #ArtProcess #CreativeProcess #CubistArt #WorkinProgress #Photomontage #UrbanNature
How the Maps Get Made | Starting Out
YouTube video by Darren Sears
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· Jul 29
The point isn’t that they’re doing it…the point is they need to be. And the ones that have the style and personality for it need to be 10 times louder. But also it doesn’t need to just be politicians. Surrogates and other personalities can be just as effective if not more.
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· Jul 29
Sorry what I meant was I don’t know the details of the Johnny Reb situation. I did assume you meant something along those lines.
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· Jul 29
You’ll need to elaborate on the first part of that πŸ™‚. But yes I think they need to do a whole lot more of the second…and somehow make it not sound like β€œexplaining” or β€œerror.” (I know, MAGA should be able to handle it, being the confident manly men that they think they are….)
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· Jul 29
They aren’t. And they shouldn’t be responsible, either, for trying to do something about it. But it’s where we are, unless you have a better idea?
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· Jul 29
If it doesn’t end up mattering, that’s on the Democrats. This shouldn’t be rocket science for them to figure out (spin?).
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· Jul 29
View of Strzelecki Peak at #Sunset on #FlindersIsland, #Tasmania.

I integrate a lot of my photos into immersive watercolor maps! Learn about those here:

darrensears.substack.com

YouTube.com/@darrensears.worldviews

#LandscapePhotography #Landscape #Beach #Mountains #Conservation #Climate
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· Jul 26
The early origins of my watercolor maps….

#ArtInspiration #ArtVideo #CreativeProcess #BlueskyArt #ArtSky #FantasyArt #SurrealArt #AbstractArt #EcoArt #SelfPortrait

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Eccentric Origins (of the Watercolor Maps)
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· Jul 26
Are many Irish even aware that these little forests exist?
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· Jul 23
Looks like some of my other pics πŸ™‚
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· Jul 22
#Monkeypuzzle trees (Araucaria araucana) in Santuario El CaΓ±i, #Chile.

#LandscapePhotography #Conservation #Climate
Monkeypuzzle trees reflected serenely in a lake in Santuario El CaΓ±i, Chile.
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· Jul 19
Beautiful photos!
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🎨 🌎 Darren Sears πŸŒ΄β›°οΈ @darrensears.bsky.social Β· Jul 18
Otherworldly dragon’s blood trees (Dracaena cinnabari) on the island of Socotra, Yemen.

#EcoPhotography #Desert #LandscapePhotography #Succulents #Plants #Socotra #Conservation #Climate
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