peony or Kleenex carnation???

Well, I had to try it. I don't think I've painted a flower before. For now I will work on simpler structured flowers.

Composition is pedestrian and too centered too out of shape. See original. I may try to redo.

UPDATE: I did a redo. Not much better and I may have to admit -- worse. I'm feeling challenged by the damn flower. Tonight I tried to do it by chunks of shapes and shades of color. Also really hard to do with the big brush to get the detail of the petals. Maybe a peony wasn't the best choice.

That red is weird too. I ended up using color crayons (oil pastels) bottom lower left and then colored pencils, the red in the upper half. Then blue colored pencils for the background. I will go back and fix/wreck the lower left red. I like the colors of the first one--more pinky-warm--than the cooler blue tones on version 2. But maybe v.2 looks more like a peony. Neither look like a peony. They look like the Kleenex carnations I made in kindergarten.