Here is my "Midsummer's Flowers" painting as of May 25. I am painting this for July exhibit with the theme "Midsummer Night's Dream" by Shakespeare. I based my painting on a short 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." I placed each of the four lines of the poem on the border of the painting. Inside the border are paintings of each of the six flowers mentioned, in the style of botanical illustration. On May 25, I began to apply color to the sketches of the six flowers, beginning with Sharpie markers to outline the blossoms and leaves.
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