I have sampled some of my colour palette for the azalea flowers and have started the background glimpses of colour. The colours here will all be used in some capacity as, even though it is tempting to see a flower as all one colour, in the natural setting, the colours are influenced by what is around them. The time of day also influences the temperature of the light which, in turn. influences the colour we see.
The sketch is a preliminary 'pose' sketch for my oil painting based on a cooking school in New York, tentatively titled 'American Kitchen'