Poppy details

Did more work today, mostly concentrating on details.  Most of my time was spent "lifting" colour from some parts of the petals.  In some spots I lifted to define form to the petal (like the folds of the petals) and some spots were to remove the sharp light/dark edges where I didn't want them.  Now that I started doing this, I can see more places that need it.  I also want to add more "grey" to the inner portion of the right flower.  It's just too bright there for me.

I'm not sure that you can see it in this picture, but I also applied some sand paper to some areas to add "sparkle".  I'm not entirely sure it worked, but I don't think it hurt anything either ;)

You may have noticed that I also added some background.  The cool colours have really helped the red poopy poppy (stop that!) pop out of the picture!  I added some salt to create texture as well.  I want the background to be darker, so I'll be doing another dark wash over the whole background area too.

I don't want to say it too loudly, but we may be into the home stretch!