DEMO - Variety Garden

Upper left, California Poppies. A: paint orange poppies B: paint green foliage around poppies and while still wet, adjust color and value of lower right part of foliage mass with  bluer and darker green foliage paint mixture. C: Darker, neutral color behind poppies to suggest shadow behind sunlit poppies. 

Upper right, Poppies. A: paint red poppies B: simple silhouettes showing characteristic long stems that bend at the top with buds. 

Lower left: Dahlia. A: paint red dahlia blossoms B: paint foliage mass C: paint ground D: paint shadows on dahlia, foliage ground. Nothing in the shadow should be lighter than anything in the sunlight E: Background right close to value of sunlight flower and foliage then shifts into dark area matching value of shaded foliage area. 

Lower right: grey-green shrub A: paint silhouette of the whole shrub, sunlight lightens and neutralizes color B: paint shadows on silhouette, shadows tend to be the color of the object