I received a very positive feedback for my "Winter morning" image http://www.pbase.com/etlea/image/36971836 and feel very flattered:-)

So here is the basic composition before layer-based color cloning.
As I see now it was done with a bristle brush in Painter, not with the water color brush.

I also notice that I did some cropping to achieve the final image.

Well, it's been a long time:-)