This is my "Midsummer's Flowers" painting as it looked on June 3. This painting is for the "Midsummer Night's Dream" exhibit in July at the TAG gallery in Boston. 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. On June 3rd, I went over the lettering under each flower with dark blue. And I added dark brown to the inside and outside border. Although the painting wasn't finished, at this point all of the elements of the painting were in place so I could see how it was going to look. This was good because even though I didn't have to deliver the actual painting until the end of June, the deadline was fast approaching to submit a digital image of it to the gallery. To be continued. . . .
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