Christmas Cactus Abstracted

After studying my photo of a Christmas cactus, I decided to try abstracting it with one repeated shape. Maybe something like these “spike” shapes. 
Yes, I thought they worked well.

My original idea was to fill the entire space with this shape, just changing the color for background grass, brick, etc. But, when I tried that for grass I didn’t like it at all. Especially since just a few shapes were so effective.

So, I decided to depict the actual plant only.

Here it’s shown as a square. I thought it would probably be better if I cropped off some of the left area.

From there things fell together easily. Here it is, well under way.

I was loving how it was coming together and I didn’t want to over work it. Audition. Edit. Repeat.

I think I’ll have this one finished quickly. Stay tuned.

Ellen Lindner
P.S. I’m not sure how to quilt the background. I’ll have to give that a good bit of thought.