LOL, jminso, you get an Alice to critique an 'Alice' image. Heh, heh. You also get a painter, so that's where this Critique will head.
First, you didn't do all that badly in the scoring, especially in this tough Challenge.
Now, that second rose: if you were using watercolor paints (or anything that you can dilute, other than oils), you might thin it down lots with water and then just dunk the rose in it & keep it upside down until fairly dry. Presently, the poor thing just looks (er, ahem) destroyed. Then, on the foreground rose, I don't know what that rectangular orange slice of paper(?) is doing there. For verisimilitude, it would have been lots better to just hold a paint-loaded orange brush next to, or on a petal. The lighting to me is okay, and I don't mind the hand. Probably helps.
The completely black background is a strong plus and sets off your composition nicely.
So, to sum up, you did well, and obviously enjoyed making this image, so a big plus all around.
Alice
OK, PS a couple of days later: I see that IS the end of a brush there not an (ahem) piece of paper, but my comment still holds. The brush 'should' be a nice pointy long narrow bristled item that would touch the petal lightly. 'nuff of painterly critiquing, before I paint myself into another corner.
:-))
I like the idea (I definitely got the alice in wonderland reference!), but the lighting seemed a little flat to me. I would have liked a little more side lighting on one side, or something, to bring out the dimensionality a little more. The leaf on the right has good relief, but the roses seem to lack details and depth.
Clever idea, and something different from the many many orange flower shots in this challenge :-)
I especially like that you included the different stages of the painting, with one untouched, one in the process, and one practically finished.
If the hand (your hand?) was situated more in the top left corner and angling downwards, I think the composition would be even more pleasing.
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