I made this painting a couple of years ago. It is a close-up of a phalaenopsis orchid. I had a orchid like this for many years, but it didn't survive moving to a new home.
In the heart of phalaenopsis orchids you find many different colors. I used many different kinds of pink, red and purple for this painting.
The purple petals are painted in pink first, but I thought it was too pink. I used a second layer of more blue/purple paint. You can still see the pink trough the blue paint, which gives it a different texture than the heart of the orchid. I like it now, but I'm not sure if I can do it again like this. I was correcting a mistake and now I think it wasn't really a mistake to start with bright pink. I guess this is the way we learn from our mistakes.
It is a small painting on canvas (30x30 cm's).
