"Midsummer's Flowers" (Painting as of June 2, 2025)

Here is my "Midsummer's Flowers" painting as it looked on June 2. This painting is for the July "Midsummer Night's Dream" exhibit at the TAG gallery in Boston.  I decided to base this painting on  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." I wrote each of the four lines of the poem is around the four sides of the painting.  The six flowers mentioned in the poem are represented In the middle of the canvas, shown in the style of botanical illustration.  On this day,  I began to add some gold tones to the border.  The gold tone is just yellow and brown acrylic paint. The idea is to make the border look like a picture frame. To be continued. . . .