One morning I had the urge to paint 2 really tall canvases at once. I put them out to dry and take progress photos. What I didn’t expect was the way the fern shadows danced on the canvases.
One looked like fern shapes and the other looked more like feathers. 
 
I quickly grabbed some oil pastels and traced the shapes.
I brought the canvases back in and worked them some more, layering and layering colours.
The blue version, Fern, was created but the red background sat on the shelf for 3 years. 
 
When it called to me again, the face flowed easily with acrylics and poscas. The collage however had different plans. I faffed about for hours trying to work out the right colour combination. I really struggled!
I reworked the oil pastel leaves adding some more blue and red to tone down the bright yellow. 
I added a white posca border to tie in with "Fern". I painted the edges too so it can be hung straight away and added lots of final posca details to her face.
 
She is Blooming Beautiful. Always learning, always growing, always in awe of life. No matter what is happening, you will always blossom at any stage.
 
She measures 40x80x1.5cm