The Last Canvas: Stained Glass Window with Flower

Finally after 5 attempts painting over that canvas, I had another idea.

Here's what happened after that:

At this point I was down to the ends of tubes of blue, red and green paints which can really limit a person.

I decided to take it as a challenge and began working out the idea of a flower sitting in front of a stained glass window.

This is a point in my life when far too many people that I love are facing chronic illnesses and death so the thought occurred to me that it would make a nice sympathy card for my Zazzle store.

Continuing to paint helped me work through a series of emotions as well as using up my paint. And continuing to work began to calm me down again.

Here's what I ended up with. I won't know how well it worked out until I actually go through the design process and see it on the actual greeting card and matching sticker.

Saving Seed

  
I let a lot of the flowers go to seed here then clip off the tops and shake the seed out. That method works best for the purple coneflowers and the black eyed susans.

 For the orange cosmos here we just reach down and let the seed fall into our hands.

It's a great way to save money and get next years garden off to a good start.

I'm looking forward to seeing some of these flowers back again next year.

Drawing a Pink Flower