Yellow Rose

Do you sometimes take up the gauntlet of a challenge you find online?  I do.  Over in this blog:
http://colormechallenge.blogspot.com/

you will find a challenge.  The first one is to do a rose.  I made a yellow one because my husband, who grew up in Texas, has always bought me yellow roses.  The yellow rose of Texas thread, ya know?

So, I have quite a stack of painting boards from thrift shops and the scratch and dent store and maybe the YSM I wanted to start doing something with.  Earlier this week I did the purple cat challenge on a clay board.  This week, I decided to use a canvas board and do an acrylic painting.  Whoa!  I have not tried an almost all acrylic painting in probably 20 years.  I did not do so well!  But, eventually, after many glazing layers, I ended up with this:

I think I have forgotton a step or two to painting.  I started with the pre-gessoed canvas board.  I had to re gesso it cuz it had an outline of a tractor on it prepackaged, lol.  Then I transferred the rose with transfer paper.  Gave the whole board a yellow wash to get rid of the white.  Gave the back ground a green wash and the rose a yellow glaze.  Layed in the darks next.  Then layers of yellow.  I saw a photo on a cyber friends blog of a yellow rose with pink tinges on the leaves so added some red.  And the green background was way to glowey so toned it down with a red glaze.  More glazes to rose.  White added to lighter areas.  More yellow glazes.  Something was still wrong!  So, I decided the background needed to change.

Seeing my photo of the little wild flowers outside the studio door, I tried to match the purple to paint the background to set off the yellow of the rose. Purple and yellow are complimentary!  I like the background, or maybe the rose much better now! The background seems rather plain but the rose should be the focus anyway.  Well, maybe if I read up a bit and practice a bit more, I will find out what I did wrong with the rose.  I just have to say, not bad, considering my age and memory of how to paint, but I can get better!