Right now Mona is my number one choice to enter in the Georgia Watercolor Show.

My Kehinde Wiley. He’s the guy who paints large oil portraits with fantastic figures backgrounds – Fields of Flowers etc. A good example of his work is the controversial Obama presidential portrait.

She’s also been waiting for a background since hmm since August!!

First wash of quin gold over all the flowers.

I didn’t use any masking fluid which a lot of people would have done. I just hate bothering with it.

This was how I left Mona last night. Three layers of quin gold hookers green and a dab of burnt sienna mix.

I debated with my friend Ruth Pearl about adding a wash of peacock Blue all over the background. It’s transparent so wouldn’t darken it a lot but add color to the oh so bright flowers.

I also had a scraggly edge problem which would not be good if I were the judge.

I used my flat synthetic Robert Simmons Sapphire brush to lift the edge. Lol and behold it started lifting very well. Gotta love fluid cold press paper. I realized I could spread the lifted green gold to color the flowers and make them recede a bit.

And that’s how I got here.

Margaret who needs to clean up the mess she made but first I better do my entry right?! Xoxoxo