For our last painting where we have two images on it, we're going to start it a little differently and instead of doing the background last, we're going to do the background first. For these daisies I want to paint these yellow orange. So I'll mix a little water on my palette, I'm going to add some of this hands a yellow, and a little vermillion hue. That's just to create a little light orange background. And then next to it. I'm going to add a little bit of just the yellow can see there's not a lot of contrast here.

So I'll mix a third color with just a little more of this vermillion hue and this is just for our background. It'll be a quick background. I mixed in a little more than hands a yellow to tie it all together. So now I want to put water on my background and I'm going to wet the entire paper over the Flowers as well are focal points. I don't want it to be too wet that it runs uncontrollably and runs off the paper, but I do want the water to saturate the paper. So once I have that, I've created a border of just a little bit of dry paper, maybe a half inch or so around all four edges.

For here, I can see I've a little too much water. So I'll pick that up with a dry brush. And now with a wet brush, I'm going to go in here with my color here, my yellow, and I'm just going to deposit splotches of yellow, various areas of my background. Then I'll go in there with this deeper, this yellow orange. And again, I'm just gonna add a few areas, maybe three of these yellow orange backgrounds. I'm not trying to fill up the paper.

I'm just trying to add a little bit Have pigment here I can see that my I have a lot of water on the edge still. So with the dry brush, I'll just pick that up. And I'll do the same over here. And then lastly, I'll go in there with my orange and on those areas where I already added the yellow orange, the medium color that we mixed, I'm going to put little swatches of this orange. It's a very subtle look. I'm avoiding painting directly on the flowers, but if it runs on to the flower, it's not a problem.

I'm going to go in there with a little a civilian blue on my palette with some water. And once again, a very light color. Take a little bit of Prussian blue with that just for some variation. One more brushstroke of water to really lighten it. And then I'm going to go up and deposit color in the background, just like this. I'm avoiding the plants again, I'm avoiding our images again.

But I am creating a light background. There are no harsh edges so everything is going to blend and bleed and kind of make its way very gently through our image. And again, I like this background technique technique. It's very subtle. I'll go in there with a wet brush, pick up some of that yellow, and I'm just going to lightly go over our flowers, particularly the petals. I'll pick up some of this yellow orange deposited once again in the areas where we added the most pigment of orange And then I'm going to go back in with a little more vermilion hue on my brush and deposit that over there as well.

Trying to echo some of the shapes that we have in these flowers roughly the bent over flower, the flower looking up and the shape we have here and I'm going to let this layer completely dry.