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I thought I would try something new with painting flowers. I started off with a wash of the color I wanted to show through the the succeeding layers. In this case a rich coppery color had red and brown as the over riding color in this flower. I added alizerin crimson and and cobalt violet over a quinacridone nickel azo gold wash. This created the coppery color with subtle changes in hue for the tonal values. The background was a hard decision as I didn't want anything too refined but I needed a bit of drama and contrast. I used burnt umber and payne's grey and white to create the background.