Practice Watercolor

In Larrys class, we do this thing at the beginning of each class where we critique outside paintings. So we bring in pieces that we've worked on at home and present it to the class where we're then able to receive advice and all that good stuff. So I brought in this piece of a Japanese cherry blossom. I saw something similar to it on a youtube tutorial where he used a tap technique to get the flowers on the tree. I don't know if you could tell that I attempted to do it and it didn't work, so I just went in with the brush. Some advice from the class was to make the tree a little more roomy, if that makes sense since it is a Japanese Cherry Blossom tree. Also for the branch, ensuring the that the branch becomes thinner as it extends. I love the colors though. I primarily used a very beautiful color called opera rose. Oh, and another thing, instead of trying to shadow with a darker version of the one I already have, just use something like blue to shadow.