Blow!

I used this photo as inspiration for one of my silk paintings. I took this during the OU course and was amazed at the detail when I blew it up to pixel size in PSE. You can see all the individual dew drops.

The painting was done a little differently to usual. I didn't use any gutta. I wanted the stitching and beading to be the main focus. I used water to lighten the sepals and salt to ad texture to the background.

There was a LOT of sewing! I added the brown seeds first. Then I added the fluffy seed heads in white. I regretted doing so many seeds when it came to adding the seed heads.

And, of course, lots of seed heads meant lots of beads. I used irridescant clear beads to represent the dew. The finished picture is 38 cm square.

I was thinking about counting the beads. But only for a very brief moment!!!!