The Iris and other flowers were something I took my time on. When you paint enough and begin to lay out the comparison of projects and you begin to see the One to seven ratio.
One in seven of your paintings are really what you may call your masterpieces. The masterpiece came from the term when a journeyman or apprentice would move up in his or her guild. The "Master" of the guild would look at the "piece" and judge it to be a masters piece.
The rule of thumb with your watercolors is more like one in ten. Oil paintings would be more like one in five. I suppose it all comes down to the more you are painting the more you learn and get better. Just like your job the more you do it the better you get at it.
Monet and Cezanne as well as many others I am sure would paint over or paint out, or even destroy the painting they did not like. Da Vinci's painting of Mona Lisa is said to have seven other pictures underneath it.
Let me say this, paint on and keep your brushes wet!
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