I have an old issue of Palette Talk magazine that was my grandmother’s with the cover story “Painting an Afghan: An Enjoyable Problem” (“Afghan” in this case being an Afghan hound), and I found myself thinking while painting these hydrangea, “Painting Hydrangea: An Enjoyable Problem.” Or perhaps, “Painting Hydrangea: Hard Fun.” I tried a couple different approaches on sheets of paper before I painted this in my sketchbook. (Usually I just paint in my sketchbook, but I wanted to try out some new watercolor paper – perhaps the large paper was intimidating? I’m not sure, but I was having a tough time until I started painting in my sketchbook!)