So here's a bonus class of a painting that I did that took about 20 minutes or so, and I condensed it down to two and a half minutes. I use the same procedures from class where I set the background of the paper and then I deposited very subtle light washes of color. And I chose the colors based on the colors that I wanted my final painting to be so I did a lot of purples. When you can see here in the background is I wanted to make like a very subtle focus background as if there were more flowers in the background. So I didn't have to worry about details but I did put in a little bit of color, a little green stems, and some purple splotches to be the blossoms. When I got to work painting the actual petals of the flowers in focus, I just had lots of layers and I started out with my color, my purple that I mixed with blues and purples and then I gradually built up the color and by the time one was dry, I went and started adding a second layer to the others.

And so the colors that I built up I did with a wet on dry techniques so the petals were dry. I added my layers Then I just continued to add immense and intense color throughout the process. This left me with a bunch of different brushstrokes, a lot of texture and different colors that looked brighter in light in and had more shadow and more reflection. So it was kind of a fun technique it just took time to develop. So if I was to stop here, I wouldn't consider the work finished and I wouldn't really consider it attractive. But because I kept going and building up the layers, I got the look that I was hoping to achieve.

I gradually started adding different pigments as well so that the colors weren't uniform, they weren't all purple, I added a very light purple or even a pink here to give the effect of light shining through the pedals as well as the variation in the colors. And then I did the same thing with the stems where I added later green and then darker green. Because I wanted the image to look a little painterly, a little messy, I added some spatter and then I went back into this centers in added different texture in different colors with that as well. I added an enhanced the background a little further with more stems and more splotches just slightly just to make them a little more interesting and a little blue from the sky and then I left the paper dry. When it was all dry I went in with a white gel pen and I added some highlights and some elements I specifically went around to the pedals and added little striations on them to look like they were their folds in the pedals and here we have our finished results.