Thank you Donna. I used to paint the flowers and then the background around them but now I rough in the background or as in the last two I put it in, leave it alone and paint the flowers, vase, and shadows if applicable on top of them. It’s fairly easy with a knife to paint over. The first one was a failed painting that I scrapped back and then used the mud to create a painting and then added color on top to create the illusion of depth.