So now we're first layers dry. It's kind of a subtle color, it looks really nice. I'm going to go in here now with my number one brush, my smaller brush, and I'm going to make sure that my purple pigment, my darker pigment that we mixed is still wet. So then I'll use my purple pigment that we've already mixed the color here if it's dried or re wet it with some water, and then I'll go in and mix the color again adding a little more purple, a little more brilliant pink and a little more of the Crimson lake. So now that I have my brush, totally saturated but not sloppy. I'll go in here and on my pedals that are closest to the center.

I'm going to create just a little bit of color at the tip. And again, I'm doing striations This is a wet on dry technique. Just making striations at the tip, pulling that color and the eye towards the center here. Rinse off my breath I'm going to go in and make this a slightly deeper color. So I'll add more purple to this and a little more of this Crimson lake. And with a very sharp point, I'm just going to pull some of that color up from the center, and I'm leaving the center of each pedal in between the two colors that we put down, leaving that dry.

I really like the brushstrokes, it adds texture, and it creates a nice variation between all the layers that we've already established. Lastly, I'll rinse off my brush at a couple of brush folds of water just to tone down that color just a little bit, and I'm going to add a little Prussian blue to that as well. I added too much blue, I'll add a little more purple. When I find a color that I like I'll stop with a little bit on my brush here. I'm just going to pull up some color some pigment from the base of a larger pedals just to the top of each pedal. So wherever the top of each pedal is, is the direction I'm heading.

And I'm just taking a little bit of color and a little bit of texture here. I want to make sure my strokes are going up to the top, connecting an imaginary line from the base of the pedal to the top, the center top of each of the pedals and I'll let this layer completely dry.