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

I have a theory

[fredrickegerman.livejournal.com]

And that theory says that these things want to fill about the same amount of space. So under that theory, grass and little flowers bad; all irises all the time (with or without blank spots) or multiple levels of little flowers work better for me.

Not enough contrast on this screen to see the really subtle color differences...

Re: I have a theory

[desireearmfeldt]

I think I have the opposite theory, that contrasting levels are good. But I liked all irises with or without blanks too, so...

I think the stacked little flowers look not like actual growing flowers any more.

I would tend to vote for fewer colors in total than the irises-plus-little-flowers samples you've got. (And I kinda like the grass, probably for that reason.)