16. Pretty in Pink

Pretty in Pink
6x6 Acrylic on Canvas Board

... thoughts...
1. I set the alarm for 1 hour, then at the 1:20 point, then gave up and just kept painting.
2. Background ok.
3. Daisies ok but more overworked than earlier attempts, but they also have more varied shadows of blue, gray and yellow than the daisies I've done previously.
4. Maybe "overworked" is the wrong word. How can the step-by-step instructions in the books involve 16 steps and lots of layers, yet that isn't called "overworking". The skill, I guess, is having it not LOOK overworked ... that's what divides the amateurs from the pros.
5. I hated the flowers while I was in the study, but now, a little later, and at a distance I say the one on the right is ok. The left not so bad either. I don't now what I'd do to fix them anyway, if I decided to go in and fix.
6. Pitcher is ok, except it isn't level.
7. I eliminated a flower in the upper right. I couldn't make it work.
8. I've been hitting the limit on these cheap acrylic paints. Some of them absolutely will not flow. I'd be better off with wall paint. Pink is horrid (I tossed it). Lavender too. Yellow. Maybe I could use the navajo white wall paint I have as a base and tint the darkest acrylics.
9. I'm hitting the limits of the lessons to be gleaned from copying Dreama's wild suggestions. It's time to go into real life so I can really SEE what the thing really looks like, the thing Dreama masks with her wild (and wonderful) camoflage.
10. At some point, I want to switch to oil! But I hate the idea of the mess, and that I can't paint here in my office studio, I'd have to move somewhere else, and I would not longer have this 22 inch monitor I'm using in the office.
11. Solution ideas: Can paint outside in nice weather. Can use ASUS tablet or old laptop if it works for reference photos.
12. Trying to reverse engineer Dreama's paintings is like painting charades. She gives a vague hint and the viewer needs to figure it out.
13. Fix to Left flower: Add a couple more pale pint petals to make it more like the right.
14. Instead of tossing bad paint, I could mix colors together plus white to make a gray or brown.