I'v experimented quite a bit with the gladiolus. It was too monochromatic so I tried a coloured ground, even though I had thought of gilding the background. That meant it was quite okay to underpaint it first. View the blog on 2 November! In the end I kept some of the coloured ground on the card version. The paper was badly stretched on the one corner and I like my work to be super-flat when complete, so the first thing to do was to re-stretch it. It had cockled at the time but I had to get on … [Read more...]