Iris Time

It was time to bring some flowers indoors, so I stopped by our village florist and picked out a few beautiful irises to paint with.

 I'm calling this wash #89 since I'm still plugging away at my 100 washes.
cad yellow, aureolin, new gamboge, Quin gold, FUB, winsor violet on Arches 140#. I'm stubbornly not using pencil lines and just outlining a  basic sketch with tinted water to keep it loose.

 Same colors, but on Fabriano 300# hot press.  It's very forgiving paper- I happily reworked a lot of areas and didn't have to worry about mistakes. I could already see this color scheme seemed a bit boring and needed livening up, so..........

....added perylene maroon to brighten things up a bit.  The composition could be better but maybe more cropping will help this one.