This flower I thought would be very difficult to draw so I thought I'd use colour as my main source for the experiments on this page. The first one I did with pastel, I tested out some colours on the page first, trying some colours over others because I couldn't find one close enough to the colour of the flower. But then I found a different box of pastels and found a much better match. It was easier to get a good colour match for the experiments I did with paint just by mixing a few different ones together. I applied the paint using sponge of once, paper towels for another and tissue paper for the other. I like how none of the have perfectly straight edges as neither does the actual flower. I think they just work a lot better that way.