Watercolor Flower Lessons

For three days, we spent painting flowers with different fresh cut flowers in our room.  We had roses, daisies, peonies, and more roses.  I tried to paint daisies the first today and found that hard with out a background.
However, it was important to try and see if I could paint the daisies.  Daisies are easy to paint outdoors with a green background, but with this attempt in the studio, it was difficult.

The second day I tried to paint roses. In this case Our instructor, Carolyn Anderson, was a big help as she would review our work and give us suggestions.   In this picture, you can see how a leaf was added to the bottom to add some interest and a little different color to the arrangement. I changed the value and color in some of the roses to provide some variety.  

New Flower Paintings

A few weeks ago just before we went to Ocean city New Jersey on vacation with our family, I completed a three day course in painting flowers in watercolor.  I used some roses that you see here.  I also used some pink peonies and then some other red roses.  Each day I painted but it wasn't until our teacher spent time each day to critique our paintings that