Flora, Goddess of Spring

Is she finished?  I think she is almost.  I take a coffee and sit and look at her and try to decide.  The face is the hardest part.  She must look like marble.  I will have to see what Claire says next week.  Then it is artichokes....

Bought the catalogue for the Rory McEwen exhibition at Kew which we are planning to visit.  Wonderful stuff.  Such talent, and not only as an artist, but also as a musician.

Artist's block?

I have come to a dead halt.  I have twiddled and tweaked but added nothing new.  I have drawn lovely things in my sketchbook but they don't seem to fit on the finished piece.  Cannot seem to move on at all and I don't know what to do next!  That marigold intimidates me.  Maybe another periwinkle flower?  I would like blossom and I have drawn cherry, damson and apple.  None seems right.

Flora

Flora is moving along quite well.  We are supposed to be working in watercolour but coloured pencil is so much easier for me when my time is often snatched.  I can do 20 minutes in coloured pencil, but for paint I feel I must have some sustained time.
I am trying to depict marble becoming plants, death to life, dark to light.  The plants I am using are of spring, some with their own symbolism - primrose, marsh marigold, hart's tongue fern, periwinkle and strawberry.
I wonder if that big yellow blob of a marsh marigold is rather a mistake.

Hart's tongue fern, Clematis montana,
chionodoxa, primrose, marsh marigold

Celandines added, also veronica umbrosa.