pigeon done and moving on to a new adventure

 I like it.

This is a heavily photoshopped version of the finch I painted earlier surrounded by stained glass.  I've liked it a lot, but how do I render it in watercolor?

Here are a couple attempts.  In the first one I used a bigger brush than I usually do because I want to cover the whole paper with that kind of netting effect, but it was too large and I got thick globs of sepia which I was not able to overcome.  The second are four attempts to find a suitable rendering.  I like the lower left best.