Fresh Flowers...

I just had to try this in colour - it was all rich in pink - unfortunately the photo has bleached it a bit. This was my first watercolour for years and I really loved doing it but of course it's not how I saw it... I wanted to get the clean crisp colours and keep the details of the flowers instead it all ended up blurring and mixing into each other and while I like the effect I wish I could get the technique of the other way too! I think I go for the darks too soon and should be more patient at layering and building up the colour gradually - I got lazy with the tile too (present from Islamabad from a recent trip by my parents).. it's much more densely flowered but I didn't feel there was enough room to do it. I'd like to try it on it's own. So a lot a feel could be better but it was fun to do and I just loved using the colour - got to do more of it...