Stairwell Dithering

[firstfrost]

More paint has been applied. The wisteria is done (and it's particularly impressive when I stand next to it on the downslope, because it makes it clear that I had to use Magic Levitation Powers. harrock is jealous that I've gotten new shticks), and I've been starting the edge flowers.

I painted the irises first, and I quite like how they turned out. Then I started putting in the smaller flowers (I had this idea of taller irises anchoring little beds of smaller flowers), and I'm much more unsure of them. Thus, I turn to those with more aesthetic sense than I, for opinions.

• Here's what it looks like now. It's halfway between irises-only and irises-with-little-flowers.
• But I keep thinking I liked it better before. Maybe it's a question of keeping a clean colorway, or maybe it's that the little stencils just don't have the room to be as artistic or elegant...
• Or would it look better with the bed filled in with the rest of the little flowers?
• Or there's the different tack entirely of All Irises All The Time.
• Here's a version with all the leaves the same color green (approximately) as the irises.
• Here's multiple levels of little flowers. Fire sale on little flowers!
• This one is harrock's suggestion, of grass instead of flowers.

Opinions?

For those following other memes (paraphrased):
Me: Bah. I'm not sure I like the little flowers.
harrock: It's still a good project. I'm very impressed. It's pretty and I'm proud of you.
Me: Um... I'm not depressed, I just want to do it right. Oh, er, I see - "words of affirmation" is my lowest score.

Comments

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

As far as I can tell, overlapping stencils doesn't look very good unless it was set up that way and there are holes left in the appropriate place. :-\

[kelkyag]

Yeah, I can see that. I wonder how much the difference in stencil scale is contributing to the big and little flowers not going together, with the stencil gaps on the irises being very substantial compared to the overall size of the little flowers and grass.

What about fewer leaf shapes? How about just the irises and the bluebells and some grass, perhaps leaving off the bottom two leaves on the bluebells to make them more upright like the irises?

Could the other little flowers sneak in with the swooshes of leaves and roses on the risers, since those are pretty iconic anyway, or would that be far too busy? (The stencils are in a different style, though, too. Maybe not.) Or perhaps they could get a little flowerbed of their own at the top or bottom of the stairs, or on the third floor.