Iris Mandala: Day 8

3/13/08: Today I started on the outer petals. I continued using the light peach, lightfast peach, lightfast orange, and black grape colors and added goldenrod and van gogh orange which is a little brighter than the lightfast orange. Since coloring the upper petals, I've noticed that the lower petals (in the blue section) seem duller. To fix that I added more of the lightfast orange to the upper left iris. I'll continue doing the same to the others the next time I color.

As promised I'm providing a close-up photo so you can see more of the coloring details.