Flower

So I finally finished that flower I was talking about.




Its acrylic and ink, with some digital alteration on top of that - The background is pretty obvious, but some of the red on the flower itself was digitally added in, too. 

I was talking a few posts ago about how I tend to break things down into fractals, and this is a good example of that: If you think about it, the whole flower is basically a series of circles or rings stacked on top of each other, which are then broken down further into ovals for the petals.The big trick is trying to take what's basically a hemisphere that you've broken up into a series of flat planes, and canting it all at an angle. If all flowers could please stop growing in such a way that as to require foreshortening to draw right, that would be swell. 


Overall, I'm not unhappy with it, though I feel like the digital elements ultimately over complicated the execution of the piece. On one hand, I feel like it did need it to really be "finished", but on the other hand, I just feel like it was one step too many, y'know?

It's nice and dry without being too warm today, so I may take the opportunity to spend some time outside while I can.