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Avocets in the Fog   The watery background was created with a wet-in-wet watercolor technique (i.e., a brush soaked with pigment washed onto wet paper). The birds were painted in muted shades of grey after the paper fully dried. The American Avocet, Recurvirostra americana, has long, thin, gray legs and webbed feet. Its plumage is black and white on the back with a white underbelly. The neck and head are cinnamon colored in the summer and gray in the winter. These wading birds have a thin bill, upturned at the end, that sweeps from side to side when feeding in the brackish or saline wetlands these birds prefer. They are migratory and mostly winter on the southern Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Mexico and the United States. During winter, Avocets are a relatively common sight in shallow water or on mud flats of the Chesapeake Bay. The original watercolor, presented in a 1.5" wide grey-toned barn wood frame with matching wood filet (double matted in acid-free tan on grey-green to an outer dimension of 26" x 21") is available for $1,900.00. Limited edition prints and note cards are also available. Click here for availability and price.