Workshop demo

These are the peonies I did as my demonstration painting

for the peony workshop last week. I worked from a photograph

and put in the darks after lunch when everything had a chance

to really dry. I find that if we don't practice patience...we can end

up with mud quite fast...I also work all across the painting and

compare that to "spinning plates"...staying ahead of drying washes

and being able to scrape back or drop in more pigment at the right

time before the "plates" crash to the floor...or in other words

the washes dry.