Well, I tried to push my colors a bit and that worked out pretty well. Usually when I paint from a photo of say, a landscape; I can just refer to my photo if I hit a tough spot. In these poinsettia paintings, I am inventing the colors more and also the design. For instance, I found that the plant stems should look random but needed a stablizing element. That is why I made those three largest leaves with a vertical orientation and then added the horizontal background lines to create a grid of sorts.
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