Here is my painting as of May 28. I am painting this for a July exhibit with the theme "Midsummer Night's Dream" by Shakespeare. My painting is based on a little poem from the play: "I know a bank where the wild thyme grows / Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,/Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine." Each of the four lines of the poem appears on the border of the painting. Inside the border are paintings of each of the six flowers mentioned, done in the style of botanical illustration. On May 28, using as reference the sketches I had made on paper, I used conte crayon on the canvas to block in the location of each of the six plants. At this point, I was just trying to establish the layout and the composition.
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