I spent some time with a few great men, Tunnicliffe, Liljefors, Eckleberry, Singer, Fuertes, to name a few. I was in a library lest you get the wrong idea! It was an enjoyable time, looking, at how the masters made their birds. I never tire of studying them, the work, the turn of a feather, a shadow here and a highlight there. Some perfect in symmetry and others in design. It comforts me to know them and see the passages of their hands to create life. My work is changing as I study and it grows slowly into something new.