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Red Oriental poppies with delicate blue green fronds dance against a blue sky, which was not a blue sky at all in the reference photo!. As the painting progressed from the bottom of a quarter watercolor sheet (15" x 11"), it became clear that dark, lush green background all over interfered with the vivid red petals of the poppies. The painting was about to become too choked with intense colors. There would be no respite for the eye or a breathing space.
I cut the bottom portion, making the painting a square, and made the foliage lighter. You can't paint what you see; you have to follow the direction of the unfolding painting.
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