Nice to be back,
I have been busy doing some preparatory work for some more flower paintings. At the pixelio-website I had found some photos of lotus flowers and liked them so much. Here is the first painting of two lotus buds.
The reference photo:
And this is what I did:
(in the photo the colours have changed a bit, e.g. some of the light pink has gone
, also the contrast is a bit stronger, the white of the right side of the buds appears a bit too white, yet the whole image comes very close)
heavy drawing paper, "underpainting with VanGoghs, then Senns and Neopastels; some detailed work at the end with Koh-i-noor Triocolour coloured pencils in dark red and dark green)
Blending was done with my new colour shaper set (the hard version is called clay shaper here). I had to put lots of layers
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C&Cs very welcome
thank you for your kind and overwhelming words . Honestly, when I started to put down the first layers I wasnīt sure if I would finish this painting at all. It didnīt want to look the way I wanted it to and first I didnīt know what to do with the background - a real challenge it was. Iīm surprised myself about the result and Iīm happy you like it, too. 
, but whenever I feel lost I will look at the buds. 
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