More Flowers Appearing
20Hmm. Yeah, that last flower (on the right) was a little too large. Although it looked fine, I knew that it would crowd the rest of the composition, causing the flowers to overlap too much. That would make it harder to tell them apart, and I’d lose the nice contrast with the background. So, I made it slightly smaller.
The brown center was just loosely pinned at this point.
Have you noticed the light source? I decided it’s coming from the right. Therefore, I’ve used lighter fabrics for the petals that catch the light. I wasn’t aiming for a photo-realistic image of flowers, with exactly perfect shadows and such. Instead, I wanted to give the impression of light and its direction.
Three flowers down, with centers still in debate:
Now, four flowers complete, except for tweaking the centers. I did finally decide on brown for the flower centers, though. Time to figure out the seed heads:
At this point, the floor of my studio was COVERED in yellow bits of fabric! I didn’t mind, though, because I was happy with the progress.
Ellen Lindner
