PaulinKendal
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Best bit of freehand painting I've done so far. I used heavy body off-white thinned with white ink for the flowers.
Choosing an organic pattern on folded cloth made it easier than if I'd tried a regular repeating pattern on the orange cloth - fewer places to hide mistakes there, and the eye picks out irregularities in a repeating pattern very quickly.
It's still far from perfect - zoom in and you'll see a fair bit of 'hairiness' to the margins of the flowers, but it's good progress for me.
The purple was painted following the advice of YouTuber Vince Venturella - shaded with, improbably, bright yellow which, mixed with purple produces a brown that's both darker than the purple (go figure, we're mixing pigments, not pure colour) and a brown that responds very sympathetically to washes of blue-black ink and the original purple (a colour that tends to be fairly transparent anyway).
The purple is highlighted with pale flesh, which again works very well indeed. Purple is definitely now in my 'easy' paints to use - unlike orange, which remains a challenge!