Watercolor Painting and Pastel Painting

This is the final painting.  I am going to take it to my next watercolor class and get the opinion of my teacher to see what I might do to tweek it.  It isn't the best composition or drawing.  But the Yupo paper was the major point of the painting.  Could I actually paint a picture on it.  I did not give up and learned so much.  But I won't ever give up my Arches 300lb cold pressed paper.  I thought I was out of control painting on that paper....after YUPO it is looking very controllable. 

This is what developed of the vase from experimenting.  I decided to try saran wrap  to give the the vase texture and interest.  This was done several times and each time I added little bits of different colors especially a little purple.

I added more texture to the center of the sunflower with plastic backing for needlepoint.

Fro the center of this sunflower I used a finer needlepoint backing for the center.

Beginning of the final painting.  The calla lilly is what is left of the previous painting after washing off the whole painting.

After I put the first Yupo painting under the faucet, wiped it off with water and a little soap I started painting again.  As I explored how to use my paint on Yupo I let it lead me to the vase design and the background.  The flowers did not was off completely and I used the faded drawings to paint the new flowers.