Hippeastrums 2

My sister gave me this Amarylis/Hippeastrum last year - 2009 and it flowered just after Christmas. I put it in the greenhouse and watered and fed it with the tomatoes and to my surprise and joy found it had not one but two buds on it this year. I have painted it again and this time started when it was just a bud. I used gum arabic on the petals which may not show up in the photograph. The colour is so rich, I used a combination of reds, scarlet, cadmium, alizarin crimson and even a little permanent rose in places. I used indigo with alizarin to get the really dark inside. Not sure if the first edition is better than the second.