My flower painting - continuing work in progress..

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So, I've just finished the background to my flower painting now, and just started a bit of the flowers themselves. So, when I last showed you my work in progress, I'd just done the bottom part of the background. Today I followed up the green bit on the right hand side, and took it up to the top of the page where I put a mixture of burn umber and black. I blended the green with the burnt umber mixture where they met. I continued the burnt umber mixture across the top to an area where I left a space to add a lighter area, and then I added a mixture of raw sienna, yellow ochre and a tiny bit of black and I tried to blend that with the raw umber mixture where they met. I I added a bit of the raw sienna/yellow ochre mixture at the bottom left, and a spot nearly half way up. Then I brought some of the mixture down from the top at the left in streaks, leaving room for a lighter colour. I mixed lemon yellow with white, and another lot of lemon yellow with white and a bit of sap green. I painted in some of the lemon yellow and white over the left hand side, and dropped in some of the mixture with added green to the left of that. I also added a combination of these colours on an area just below the flower on the left. The green bits on the left were added before I added the lemon yellow/white, lemon yellow/white/green mixtures. I added a bit of the lemon yellow/ white mixture to the area at the top that I'd left for a lighter colour. There was a bit if white paper left over on the right underneath the flower that's in bud. I filled that with a mixture of orange and gamboge. Then I called the background finished. I put a strip of burnt umber/black underneath the bottom petal of the flower on the left. Then I did the same around the bottom petal on the right of that same flower. I added a burnt umber mixture on the bottom of the flower that is in bud, then I added raw sienna and I let them mix. I put raw sienna and a bit if yellow ochre on the bottom of the bottom petal on the right of the flower on the left. Did you get all that? Then I added a little petal just above that petal that I seemed to have missed off, using lemon yellow and gamboge. And that is how far I've got. I'll see you later then. Have a nice day.