I had a photo of a big red dahlia from my garden last summer and I wanted to paint it. I struggled and started over three times. It's amazingly complex and I continually overworked the paint. I was attempting to build up translucent washes of watercolor that would create a feathery scarlet hombre, with subtle shadows and accurate but impressionistic detail. Hah!
Since I hadn't mastered the painting of it, I decided to go back to drawing it. I enjoyed that, especially as I decided to use various pencils, pens and charcoal. Messy but satisfying. I think I'll practice painting the dahlia another time.
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