Poetic Poppies (large) - Marybeth Heikes

Unframed Print . 16x20 with white mat.

Flowers are a consistent theme in my work.

 I work from life, drawing my garden flowers and taking numerous photos. I began with an idea for the design and sketched it out on tracing paper the same size as my paper support; in this case I used 300# Arches watercolor paper. The heavier paper doesn?t buckle when I adhere the collage papers to the surface. I began with the poppies & cosmos, cut random shapes from the sheet music and placed them in various spots around the bouquet. Lemon-yellow paper shapes were laid between the music paper. This was a decision in the composition layout, not previously sketched out in the initial design. I felt the shapes