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Beautiful job! You are much more skilled than I am so I’m not the one to advise you but I can’t help but give you my ideas. I think that traditionally the light toned stamens would be on a darker background since they are in front. . Looking at the flower photo however you could ignore tradition and have the background lighter in tone than the stamens. I do a lot of practice drawings first. What if you apply white pencil to the lightest petal areas first so you know where they are then you could shade the petals very very lightly with dark sepia and then apply white pencil over that. Or how about a very light grey watercolor wash on the petals and then apply white pencil and then bring the stamens out with light dark sepia?