Rose so Sweet

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As our early summer flower season begins, I started itching to paint some roses in watercolor. It was a toss between iris and a rose..and somehow late at night, when I usually get started painting something, I usually bite off the more complicated for some reason. But, after not have painted any roses for a long time, I was happy with the general way it came out. At least in Watercolor I can keep going and work my way around the flower, as while one petal dries, you can paint in a different part of the flower. As is usual to me, I pick up one brush, and usually use it for most of the painting. I am not sure why that is, as I certainly have plenty of brushes, and usually lay out several to use.. My students always comment on how I paint the whole painting (sometimes very large ones.) all with that darn one brush!
This one I used I really only picked up to start the background with for the first washes, but wound up using it for the entire painting. It was a fairly good sized brush -a number 10 round- and I would not have thought I could capture the details with it, but it happened to have a very  nice point, which was a surprise. I usually do not use a synthetic, that I call "carved" into shape but it was handy and my other brushes weren't.I mostly prefer nature sable brushes for anything that requites a point to paint with. But, this  Richeson Professional series 7000 really amazed me, and no  this is not an ad!  I will use it again and hopefully the fine point will maintain with additional use. Will let you know.