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I have done the next step. Although I have not worked on all stamens yet, I did more work on the background. I was too curious to see how it would look. I have started at the bottom part, did at first a light wash of indian yellow, sap green, here and there a bit alizarin, a bit phthalo blue and let it mix on the painting. I wanted to see, how it would look with only a light background, although I already knew how I wanted to have it. And the result was, that I did not like only a light background, so I came back to my first idea. I wanted to have the areas around the flowers more dark and to the side of the paintings it will be lighter. So I added more sap green, more alizarin crimson, phthalo green, phthalo blue (I mixed it on the palette but I also added each colour here and there direct on the painting). And I added a bit of paynes grey bluish to get a deeper dark. Be carefully with paynes grey bluish it can look dull and it is also an opaque colour, so other layers will not shine through. Be careful where you want to add it. Here is a photo of how the painting looks at this time.



FINALLY: I am so glad, that I have finally finished my step-by-step-demonstration of the Rose Open Arms. I have worked a lot in the background, there are always more layers needed to get the right darkness, which I wanted to have. I worked with the same colours, which I have used before. Then I painted the other stamens, which were not finished yet. After that I checked all my colours in each rose and where neccessary I added layers . Then I softened the edges, where I had not done this before and the last step was to sign my painting. I hope you found my step-by-step-demonstration useful and I wish you luck with your own watercolors.