Using Transparent Yellow, we worked wet on dry with Transparent Yellow. We used wet on dry to have control over our edges. There are hard edges around the "whites" of the petals, and soft edges where they soften to the white of the paper.

Once the paint and paper is completely dry we added our second color wet on dry - Permanent Rose. We added this color lightly but quickly, just putting it as demonstrated at the left.

Finally, we worked wet on wet! Again, once the paper is completely dry we quickly and lightly wet the paper. We added quick fluid brush strokes with a medium viscosity of purple. Once on the paper leave it alone! This color has a tendency of sticking and moving off the paper in unpredictable ways. So once down, leave it alone! Kinda like poison oak, don't scratch or you'll be sorry.

Unfortunately, I had brought the incorrect image to class. Your image was slightly smaller and had more interest. My image was larger and had less interest.

So Today I Painted the Whole thing over again. Notice the difference in the purple! I tried to move it after it was placed on the paper.

 

Using Permanent Rose, we worked on defining some of the red "parts" of the flower. As we go over the whole image with glazing, the pencil lines will start to disappear so we want to be sure that we can "find" where the parts are when we get to them.

Once your paper is dry, we then saturated the paper and added a light amount of Thalo Blue. I placed this painting up for all to see before it was completely dry, and the paint ran down! See the blossom at the bottom left edge! Am I going to worry? No, because as we work in the next layers, the blossom will soften out.

Once the paper is dry again, we then added Winsor Purple. We can only work on the painting, adding color while the paper is still wet - with a sheen. If the paper starts to dry out, you can add more water to your brush, but you have to keep checking that the paint applied will keep moving and not skid to a stop and cause hard edges.

Note: look at the bottom edge where the blossom was! See just by adding washes, they soften up.

We added masking around the white edges so we can be sure to keep the edge sharp vs lost or soft.

 

Once the masking is dry we then saturated the image, introduced French Ultramarine Blue to the left bottom shadow edge, and let it spread.

Once dry, we saturated the paper and added Transparent Yellow to the upper right corner, with a heavy amount of color towards the upper right and bringing down to the center of the flower, and then washing the color to nothing at the outer corners. This softens the tone of the other colors. 

We added purple glazes, wet on dry to add to the top edges of the petals, defining the shapes already present.

We added more yellow to the overall flower, making sure we washed it out and softened the edges. We also defined some of our shapes by glazing permanent rose to the edges of the petals. If we added more purple over the yellow (and purple that is already there) we would have ended up with more of a mud color.

 

Using Quinacridone Gold, we worked wet onto dry adding the color to surround our lightest and most in focus shapes. Once the paper is dry, using Permanent Rose, we worked wet onto dry with a light amount of color to the flower "parts", we also added a light amount to the petal shapes as indicated on the photo reference.

Once your paper is dry, we added darks using a heavier amount of Permanent Rose to define the flower "parts", and then once dry started to add purple to deepen the darkest values that are needed.

Once the paper is dry again, we added Thalo Blue in a very light amount to the bug. A nice even light wash of blue.

For homework, please finish to the best of your abilities the flower parts, so we can finish the left hand side of the painting and then the bug next week.

Thanks

We lightened the left side of the painting as the purple and blue shades were too dominant. We saturated the paper with water and then quickly brushed the surface, tilting the paper so the excess color would run off the page. 

While the paper is still wet, we added a light wash of purple to soften what we just removed.

Once the paper is dry we added purple and then red to the parts of the flower, to sharpen and define the shapes.