SOMETHING NEW

Another flower, focus on the center and outward petals.  Will give it a go on the Stonehenge Aqua hotpress paper and get some batik-look on this one, too.

Start with drawing on watercolor paper.  This time, because the flower is so complex, I did trace over the photo and then transfer that to the watercolor paper.  

Next?  Choose the colors and start from the background and outer petals.

I decided to use Daniel Smith Shadow Violet in the background but then dropped in a bit of green to give it more variety (although Shadow Violet does granulate beautifully on hotpress into 3 separate colors, I needed a bit of green back there).

Next step is starting on the petals!!