One of the paintings I painted on Thursday.

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Above is one of the paintings I did on Thursday. I think it might actually be a waterlily. I started it the week before but I didn't want to show it to you until it was finished. Well, now it is, so here it is! Below is how I went about painting it, and all this was done inbetween painting another one:- WEEK ONE Last week I started this painting by painting the background. I did this with paintbrushes of different sizes. I used a bigger painbrush for large open areas and a little paintbrush for details and when I wanted to paint up to a pencil line but not go over it. I used several different greens in the background, from greens straight from a tube to greens that I mixed from two or more other colours. There are other colours in the background too, like blues, browns and oranges as you can see. I think that large expanse of blue/green over on the top left is actually a lily pad, but I didn't realise this at the time of painting! Art is all about observation, so.I think I should be observing more! I found out this week that I missed a bit of background that should have been green inbetween two of the petals on the right. WEEK TWO So in week two I realised I'd missed out that bit of green in the background, but I decided to put that in last. I did the petals of the main flower with palette knives. First of all I put out some cerulean blue and some ultramarine. I mixed the cerulean blue with some white to make it lighter and I used a palette knife to spread it onto the middle of one of the petals. Then I spread some ultramarine round the edges. Then I used the palette knife to mix the two colours together a bit where they meet. Then I went onto the next petal and did the same, and I did that with most of the petals. The petal on the bottom right of the flower was lighter than most of the petals, so I added even more white to the cerulean blue. I again added ultramarine to that and attempted to mix them only where the two colours meet. When I came to the big petal at the bottom right, which now you come to think about it could be the part where the flower meets the stem, I used lilac, peach pink, orange and rose colours. I made sure I left space in the middle for the centre of the flower, and bits spreading out into the petals themselves. I had a break before I did that though and I went to get my dinner. Then after dinner I came back to it and I painted the centre piece. The main colour I used was mid yellow, but there are bits of orange, peach pink, and even the occasional rose colour in there too. I used a palette knife to do this too. And then I called it finished. I thought that my other painting was finished too, but when I came to look at it later I realised there were some shadows I'd forgot to put in, so I'll do those next week, and when it is properly finished I will show you that one too! What have you lot been getting up to today? I hope you are all well. Have a great night.