A Flower for Amy

I gift for my cousin.  They all want a painting and all want bright colors....both of which I believe I'm am horrible at.  ^,^`  My forte is drawing and mixed media.  So I cheated on this.  It's paper and acrylic with markers.  I watered the paint down with a medium so I was able to use it more like watercolors.  She was happy with it, but I wasn't.  I can do better next time.  The photograph is so crappy!  And I had bad lighting.  I tried to lighten the colors (because it was soooo very dark) but it is still no match to the original.