New Day, New Plan

Well I had a good night's sleep and have a new plan for the daffodils. Today I'm going to go back into the flowers themselves and reestablish more accurate shapes. I'm working from photos of the blooms in my front yard for this one. I printed out a number of them and cut out the blossoms, then arranged them until I found a design I liked. They are taped up on the wall in my studio now. I kind of like them there, might leave them! :) Anyway, I'm NOT going to get detaily (are you listening self?) I'm just going to make the big shadow and light shapes more accurate, and pick out the highlights more accurately. I'm still stumped about adding more darks, I don't know what color to use. The light is midday, so if I remember right the lights should be cool and the shadows warm. Well my shadows have blue added to make green, so they are cool and my lights are all yellow so they are warm! Crap. Okay, so maybe it's not midday. Lets call it morning, thats better symbolism with the upbeat happy nature of daffodils, right? So my lights are warm and my shadows cool. So maybe I need to go just a touch cooler, ooh maybe I just need to add some straight ultramarine so the darkest darks are blue. The Magenta yellow blue color from yesterday definately did not work. It was very dark too, though, so maybe I need to watch that my value doesn't go tooo dark. When I go a darker green that doesn't work either. Speaking of the green shadows, I think I'll try greying them down a bit, maybe the green is too bright, or maybe I'm using the wrong green! I think I'll try cerulean cause that tends too muddy up most everything it mixes with anyway. So - adjust flower shapes, try a blue for the darks, try a different blue in the shadow mix. I'm off!