"Midsummer's Flowers" (Acrylic Mixed Media Painting)

Here is my painting on June 28, finished and ready to be packed up for the trip into Boston. This is my "Midsummer's Flowers" painting, headed for the "Midsummer Night's Dream" exhibit in July at the TAG gallery in the SOWA district. My painting is based on a short poem from Shakespeare's 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 is written around the four sides of the painting.  And six flowers that are mentioned in the poem appear In the center of the canvas,  in the style of botanical illustration. Back in early June, I thought it was just about finished and photographed it for the required digital image. But since then, I repainted the blue background, making it look a little more blue, but softer, like the sky. And I added a layer of gold acrylic craft paint to the border. I went over all the straight lines with a T-square.  I went over all the lines and shapes of the flowers. I made many, many small corrections in the lettering.  And yes, at the last minute, I realized I was spelling "eglantine" in two different ways: with an 'i' as in the poem, and with a "y", a spelling that crept in from looking at flower images on Google. So I fixed that. I am happy with this now and am glad I kept going.  I often say that art is about making mistakes and correcting them.  I think that it is also about persistence.