Continuing to blossom

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I’m racing the decaying flowers! They look really pretty but don’t last long at all when cut.

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This painting is needing lots of washes of colour, over and over, layering up.

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The pink blossoms are proving really hard to match colour wise because they have such a delicate graduation of shade and light that it’s hard to see where to use pink and where to add grey or violet. Good progress so far – head down tomorrow!