The completed painting of a hibiscus. There are some things that I feel needed more careful attention, but overall I am not unhappy with it. I enjoyed adding the shadows, as I always find it exciting to add green into the colour, even though there is no green on the flower itself. Because one of the dominant colours is red, our eyes register the complementary in the shadows. (You can experiment to prove this by looking at a light and then closing your eyes or looking away to a plain area then you should see the light shape in a greenish yellow. Please do not look for so long as to damage your eyes!) The long stamen casts a shadow across the petal but is foreshortened on the painting because of the viewpoint.