So now that our first layer is dry, I want to work on the stem. I'm gonna leave my two colors here, my lighter Crimson lake and my deeper, more intense color. With my number six brush, I'm gonna go in here and take some of this deep green. And then we'll take just the tiniest amount of crimson lake and add it to that. This will intensify the color just a little bit. Now add a couple of brush flows of water.

Then using the same brush, but I'm gonna try and achieve a nice point on this brush. So I roll it around on my palate, my wet palette, remove some of the water. I'm just going to go down following the length of the stem here. And then each section I'm going to treat individually just depositing a little bit of color. Gonna go in here and add a second layer. going to switch brushes.

My number one brush, take a little of the deep green and intensify that color. And then I'm going to come in here and just add a little more color on one side of the stem here actually making it almost look like a shadow. I still want to keep maintain white parts of the stem and I'll let this layer dry.