My Funky Flower Canvas

'Blossom YOUR way!'  By Anne Corazza, 9/2012

I FINALLY finished my week one Brave Girl Art School - Funky Flower Canvas today.  Whooo hoo!  This took me way too many hours, but it was fun.  It was really hard for me to know when to stop.  Do any of you fellow artists have a problem knowing when a piece is done?  I kept adding to it, hoping that eventually I would like it better...but I finally decided I had to stop.

It certainly did not come out anything like what I thought.  And nothing quite like all the other ones by other students in our online class.  It just kept evolving into some very strange, retro piece.  So much for antiquing mine.  Not really sure how it turned out this way.  Maybe it was because I chose to do a black background?

Here are some step by step photos so you can see how it evolved.  I kept adding and then taking off various flowers....

This frame is my very favorite part of the finished project.  LOL.  I used modeling paste mixed with blue acrylic paint and a Dylusions stencil to create this textured checkerboard look.  The table is made with PanPastels and the vase is made of textured paper.  

Next, I started adding flowers.  You will see I would add them and then delete some
and add more as I went along.

Yep, I used a mini CD for the center of the flower.  

This might be where I would have stopped if I would do it again. But,...

Here I added sequence to frame around the far right flower and then I added string gel medium to the inside of the petals.  It will dry clear.
I also added a string of beads around the large flower in the center.

Next I added more flowers and details on the top and left side.  I added modeling paste into the center of all the petals of the flower on the left.  Was not crazy about how this came out.  Flower on right has now dried clear.

I painted some flowers by hand on the top.  I added string gel medium on top of some other flower petals to make a more glossy look.

Just a few more details and flowers with glitter and paint. 

Here is a close up of the top

...and here is the bottom.