"Midsummer's Flowers" (Painting as of May 31, 2025)

Here is my "Midsummer's Flowers" painting as of May 31. This painting is for a July exhibit at the TAG gallery in Boston.  The show has the theme "Midsummer Night's Dream" by Shakespeare.  My painting is based  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 write each of the four lines of the poem around the edges of the painting.  In the center are representations of each of the six flowers mentioned in the poem,  done in the style of botanical illustration.  May 31, I added more color to each of the flowers with Sharpie markers and acrylic paint.  I began to put in thebackground color. Instead of white -like the pages of a botanical illustration, I chose a very pale blue, which suggests the sky.