Carol- the details you have achieved here are beautiful! At this stage I am finding it hard to tell what the main color of the tulip is. It looks like you have used purple for the toning on the pink and rose colored areas very effectively. Regarding the section on the right that is purple, is purple the predominate color of those petals or does the purple represent toning? Do you have a photo of the flower you can post?
Carol, have you considered adding a bit of watercolor to saturate that light pink color? That might get you away from the purples? Gorgeous detail here, by the way.
I think this needs to go darker, but am unsure which color or colors to use for the shadow areas.
Carol- the details you have achieved here are beautiful! At this stage I am finding it hard to tell what the main color of the tulip is. It looks like you have used purple for the toning on the pink and rose colored areas very effectively. Regarding the section on the right that is purple, is purple the predominate color of those petals or does the purple represent toning? Do you have a photo of the flower you can post?
Hi, Doug, It is a pink tulip. I’ve used red violet in the shadow areas. I posted a photo reference for this earlier. It is on my portfolio page.
Exquisite!
Carol, have you considered adding a bit of watercolor to saturate that light pink color? That might get you away from the purples? Gorgeous detail here, by the way.
I love this tulip, I can feel it’s velvety texture.