Magnolia Blossom acrylic portrait magnolia flowers

Think this is going to be it for today.  Been fiddling now as I was posting this for the last half hour.  Since we lost our hour last night it is already late and I still need to go out and kill weeds in the yard so I don't get yelled at by the association.  Then it is supposed to be nice enough to have a glass of wine on the porch.  Yes, life is back more to normal and it is good!!
As you can see around the middle koi, here is a perfect example of how you can pull color off this canvas.  You just can't do that, or I can't, on paper without ruining the surface.  Of course it would have to be the orange red over the white fish - just how does that always happen?  But I should be able to cover it with water color.  Did the adjustment as I wanted to bend the fish body to be a more obvious curve and not make it look like the white koi, the star of the show, is in a complete straight line with the mid one.  Have only two koi to put in now, and that is the white one and then there is one in the left corner that leads the eye into the picture or stops the eye from exiting the picture.  Then you could be in a constant circle of motion.  Have decided to make the light yellow fish on the left have more color so the white one is more obvious, but am going to hold off until I get the white one in, maybe it will look ok and then I won't have two bookends of yellow on each side of the picture.  Am going to have to lift and glaze more water colors for variety and interest as well.  Not hating it as much as I did, and am definitely going to have to use dry brush to pop color on this canvas otherwise it just eats up the color.
Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a great painting week.