This will be my last blog on the topic of 'leaves'. Tomorrow I shall block in some of the flower colour in the background, leaving only the flowers that will be in detail on the finished painting. This technique is similar to 'depth of field' in photography. I don't want the focus of the viewer to be on the background or even the leaves but on the flowers. I have used this in technique previous paintings giving an abstract array of colour shapes in the background with just the subject of the painting in detail (focus).
Before I add the colour I shall sample the colours of my palette to test which ones I can use to create the colour that is closest to the natural colour of the flower. Paints, however, I believe, can never compete with nature.