At the top of the Watercolor Style image, the text “Happy New Year” in soft hand-lettered watercolor script, gentle ultramarine-to-warm-gold gradient with subtle edge bleeds, airy and understated.

Portrait composition, sincere dawn-at-the-marsh scene painted in soft watercolor washes with delicate gradients, subtle pigment blooms and backruns, and natural cold-press paper texture. In the foreground, a juvenile Virginia opossum perched on a mossy, dew-dusted log near winter reeds, tiny pink nose and ears, whiskers rendered with fine drybrush, prehensile tail loosely curled around a twig. At the right water’s edge, a great blue heron stands tall and calm, slate-blue and soft gray plumage with restrained indigo granulation, quiet reflection rippling below. In the mid-to-background, a pair of sandhill cranes: one mid-step in an elegant courtship pose on shallow water, the other lifting into flight, wings outstretched, warm gray bodies and a subtle red crown, edges softly feathered into the mist. Near the center-left, a monarch butterfly arcs gently through the air, translucent orange wings glowing in the peach-pink sunrise, delicate black veining suggested by sparse ink lines.

Atmosphere: hushed winter morning with pale mist over a glassy wetland, sky as a wet-on-wet gradient from lavender-blue to apricot-gold; faint gold spatter for celebratory shimmer, restrained and elegant. Sparse reeds painted with vertical drybrush strokes lead the eye upward. Plenty of breathing white space; no harsh outlines. Focus on tenderness and quiet beginnings; animals arranged in a graceful triangular flow that guides the gaze toward the greeting.

Small caption at the bottom right in tiny warm-sepia ink: “Wing in the year.”

Generated with these themes: Monarch butterfly, sandhill crane, great blue heron, juvenile Virginia opossum, and .

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