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

More than two cents

[merastra.livejournal.com]

Does that make this 3 cents? :-)

I love the tall wisteria. How did you levitate?

I realized I was focussing on the closeups. The big picture of the stairs with the single irises looks really good. So here's another vote for just irises, and possibly just the every-other stair irises that you had originally.

Re: More than two cents

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

For the top of the wisteria, there was a lot of standing on one foot on the stairs beside the wall, leaning forward across the stairwell and bracing with my hand by the window, and painting with the other hand. It looked a lot more perilous than it was, but I did discover that if you put lots of weight on the heel of your hand for a long time, you get the same symptoms as carpal tunnel syndrome for a couple of days. :(

Re: More than two cents

[merastra.livejournal.com]

Ouch carpal tunnel!

You're right, that does sound like a perilous position. :-)

Re: More than two cents

[twe.livejournal.com]

if you put lots of weight on the heel of your hand for a long time, you get the same symptoms as carpal tunnel syndrome for a couple of days

I was noticing something similar from too low bicycle handles...