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might mix up a mauve with your cadmium red and ultramarine blue lightened with white and
again load up your brush and begin 'cutting in' the outline of the particular blooms that interact
with the background.Use a medium if your paint is too dry. It should be creamy and fluid so you
will need to recharge your brush after every three or four strokes. You can do a similar thing
with the foreground with a mix of raw sienna and white. Spend some time and thought doing
this 'cutting in' and if a shape does not appeal rub it off with a rag and try again. Try an achieve
a balance between shapes using more one stroke 'concave' shapes for the rose blooms in
outline.
DANGER ... do not overwork the brush strokes otherwise the painting will lose its freedom and
immediacy. If the hues begin to look too garish you can always tone them down by adding a
little raw umber.Finally you will be left with the water filled glass bowl. This is nothing but a mirror for what
surrounds it. Basically you should 'smear the bowl' with all the adjacent colors as I have done
and when this looks satisfactory use the chisel-edge of a bristle brush to show some of the rose
stems as they are seen through the glass. Add a little 'white' highlight to the glass. Such
highlights are best with titanium white/naples yellow mix which gives a better 'glow' than just
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