Ancient Dragon Over Arid Badlands - Watercolor

An ancient dragon perched on a jagged badland ridge at golden hour, painted in lush watercolor. The landscape features layered red ochre and burnt sienna badlands, hoodoos and eroded canyons, with a hazy yellow-orange sky and distant mesas. The dragon's scales shimmer in emerald and turquoise, contrasting with the warm earth tones; wings folded, tail curling, smoke curling from its nostrils. Use wet-on-wet watercolor techniques: soft edges, luminous washes, color bleeds, and the grain of rough paper. Leave white paper highlights intact for glare on scales. Mood is awe inspiring, solitary, ancient. Composition puts the dragon on a cliff rim to the left with a wide horizon, dust in the air, a distant river of rock winding through canyons. The piece should feel dreamlike, painterly and fantastical.