From the Painting Guide: This painting clearly shows what a great medium watercolour pencils can be; look at the woodgrain on the planks! To me the painting would perhaps benefit from a bit more tonal contrast; if you squint your eyes at the painting you'll see that most of it is relatively light, with the darks being the heads of the flowers and a bit of shadow under the leaves. If there'd been a low light source, the shadows would've been quite extended and would have given the picture a second pattern which would've interacted with that of the flowers and given the eye more of a feast.