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Message: <blockquote data-quote="solitaryVSong" data-source="post: 1531964" data-attributes="member: 77930">I've spent the morning before work for the last two days working on this small 7x10 watercolor. When I began working in watercolor three years ago I used photos of birds that I've taken as subject matter, knowing all the time how misleading photos can be. Since then I've made some effort to work from life but I'm still at the beginning stages of that.I'll continue to do so but in the  meantime I'd like to paint! So this watercolor is based on a photo of an Eastern Willet that I saw at the Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor, NJ in spring of 2009. I'm afraid to do any more work on it for fear of killing it, so most likely it is done.</blockquote>