Yarka St. Petersburg watercolour on Canson Montval 140lb cold press watercolour paper, 4 x 6"

The lovely thing about having multiple small watercolour blocks is being able to work on more than one painting in stages. I kept this on my desk and studied it for days, I think for two or three weeks.

I worked from the bottom right flower in Gerbera Collection and Voodoo Rose by =alilone and ran into some problems with the scan that led me to deepen it slightly to keep from creating false highlights by the scanner not picking up lighter shades of yellow. But once I'd darkened the yellow on the Gerbera and run a little of the same warm Cadmium Yellow over the rose's petals for unity it helped strengthen the warm orangy-pink of the rose petals. I was pleasantly surprised at how that worked. The background is simpler and pure Russian Green worked more loosely. I took much longer glazing multiple layers on the flowers. At the end I softened the edges of the flowers a little with a wet brush and took a little of the Russian Green into some of the shadows, again for unity. I like the way it came out and love my Yarka watercolours! *HappyDrizzt is so right about how bright they are!