About This Listing This listing is for an original watercolor illustration on cold-pressed Arches watercolor paper paired with a matching dusty blue mat (not shown). The illustration has been attached to the mat using archival methods (mulberry paper hinges affixed with wheat starch hinging paste) and the full piece (including the mat) measures approximately 9x12 inches. The portion of the painting shown in frame inside the mat is roughly 6x8 inches. The piece can be unmounted from the mat with a gentle application of water (using a wet cloth) to the hinges on the back to reactivate the hinging paste. Signed and labelled by the artist in pencil in the bottom margin. This is an unframed original painting, not a print. It is an illustration for Bryana's 100 Word Story "The Ducks" and will be shipped with an accompanying printed version of the story. (You can read the full micro-fiction story in the listing photos and below. It also appears in the illustrated zine "The Man Who Could Not Die & Other Stories.")
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THE DUCKS Everything wants to eat a duck. Hawk and heron. A duck is sitting there minding her business but can't catch a break. Falcon. Fox. Turtles take them by the foot. A duck can look like a laughing matter, so wobbly of walk and fat in front. Pike pluck them right out of the ripples. Point being: let a duck have a little fun. No planning ahead, no proving themselves. Let a duck laze on the porch until too late, play dominoes all night, have too many pancakes. Each time they tune up the banjo, they know: maybe the last time.
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