Not much painting today on my teaching day, but I managed to add some more detail and shadow. It is the contract of the shadows that gives the petals form. I have also started to block the dark areas into the background of a single rose bloom. I do not paint many roses and have only done them at the request of relatives in the past, but this rose had such intensity of colour that I couldn't resist it. My wife and I purchased two of them for the pots in our garden.