#172 8/13/19 Rose Tutorial Run Amok

I was perusing some youtube videos and came across something titled "how to paint a floral in oil" by Wilson Bickford.  He looks like the kind of guy who will give you advice on taking care of your car...not someone who wants to show you how to paint a rose.  Yet he's a painter, and I love that these painters are ready and willing to post how they create things - thank you to all of you!  So after I finished the red truck the other night, I pulled a blank canvas that I had attached to cardboard months ago and decided to paint one rose before going to bed.  Dang, it was easy.  The next day, with plans to finish the canvas with all kinds of flowers in a vase, the rose being one of them, I pulled the painting from the easel to begin and drat, it came off the cardboard.  It was a lucky happenstance, as I realized that when I put that one rose down I wasn't paying attention to the top vs the bottom (as per the print on the back of the board).  When I attach the boards to the cardboard, I draw a line on the cardboard that shows the bottom of the canvas.  Rather than at the top of the canvas, this rose was at the very bottom.  A vase was now out of the question.  Therefore I put roses everywhere - as if it was a helicopter view of a rose bush....or a vintage floral chintz fabric.  Alas, I got sucked into a television program and ended up only getting through putting in the first phase of the flowers - a red circle with a dark center.  I used the 3 reds that I have on hand: cad red med, alizarine crimson and rose permanent.  Since brown dries so quickly I thought it would be beneficial to paint the rose petals the next day, less colors being inadvertently mixed that way.  Then I thought, hey finish up the in-between parts too, with multiple greens and whatnot.  They looked like unfinished poppies rather than roses, and I kind of liked them...but there was the original rose, looking like a fish out of water.  So I kept to the rose chintz plan.  I'm not sure I love the finished product.  There wasn't that sense of satisfaction of capturing a "view" of something real.  These were just imaginary flowers, they never existed.  I didn't help them "live on".  This is what I speculate might be the reason for the lackluster response to finishing this painting.