Georgia O'Keefe Inspired Watercolor Flower

       For this project, I decided to venture back into my usual habit of painting with watercolors. Being that I am inspired by O'Keefe's abstract flowers and have already created a black and white flower project, I decided to add some colors to this new piece. I referenced from pictures of roses off of Google images and traced the main outlines of my flower very lightly with watercolor pencils. I then began adding very light amounts of water and light pink watercolor to each of the petals. I then went over some of the parts of the flower with more of a similar pink watercolor pencil to give a little more depth and contrast. After completing the paint work on the flower, I then chose a bigger paint brush and two different shades of green to blotch and dab into the background. I really like the texturized look my brush strokes gave to the piece, and like the choice of colors I used. If I could go back and change anything I did during my process would be giving more room for the matte board, and condensing my flower to a smaller space.

Below are pictures of my references and of my finished piece......