Rose in watercolor for the Paint and Draw Together Challenge

A morning Rose was my attempt  for the PADT challenge  from Lela Stankovic. Lelas  compostion are always great challenges. After seeing the entries for the last challenge and the rose challenge really I was wondering if I can present my picture or not.  Some of the artists presented such beautiful paintings, some so good that they looked like photographs, others excelled in their creativeness so much  that another picture was born.

After doing my ladakh paintings in acrylic I was pondering over what to choose for my next landscape  of ladakh series. Before  going  to the next one I had to do  a watercolor painting so that my practice continues. so I took up the PADT challenge. I am yet to study the technique  of painting water droplets.But I did manage a few in this painting . I was able to study the technique  from Susies short tutorials.Thank you Susie.I need to practise a lot on this.

The painting of the rose was done on Arches water color paper 300 gsm size  15"x10.6" and the colors used for the rose were gamborg hue and scarlet lake.  In the petals colors  were dropped on each base color and held the sheet to flow the colors rather than working on each petal. I need to practice more on patience too so that  the paint dry before I put on more color. Please do comment.