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Message: <blockquote data-quote="solitaryVSong" data-source="post: 1534893" data-attributes="member: 77930">Hi Nick,Onwards and upwards is right! I knew I was risking ruining this but I went ahead anyway. But that's the fun of it. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I do have an older watercolor of the same plovers in a different pose that I did a few months ago. It's much lighter and brighter. But it still wasn't what I wanted so I decided to do this 'improved' version. Oh well...... I'm thinking maybe I'll try a version in pastel and charcoal one of these days. I still want to try to get the brightness of the sand.I have to say that I spent about a week looking through all the posts and photos on your thread and at one point I thought: what a brilliant idea! He's using collage to get back the white!!But from what I can see most of your watercolors start bright and end bright so I'm sure that there aren't that many that have to deal with the muddiness.Ken</blockquote>