After the war he revised and refined it for two decades, painting over the sketches with watercolor and expanding on his notes in diary form.

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For the more artistically inclined visitor, the Mirage just launched the 30-minute "Painting with the Dolphins" program, where each guest collaborates with a dolphin to create a unique watercolor, taking home the original canvas and a photograph of themselves painting with the dolphin.

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These he transferred in light pencil onto large sheets of Arches 300-pound hot-press paper, some of them as much as six feet in length, at which point Zega set to work painting the reconstructed edifices in intense watercolor hues, taking as long as a month on each.

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