A Miniature Garden
A Miniature Garden Going through my eclectic assortment of frames, I found a little set of tiny unfinished wood frames I bought on a whim at Ikea several years ago. The openings are only two inches high. I cut little panels to fit and painted them with a ground coat of ultramarine blue and tinted the frames with metallic gold paint. The stylized flowers were done with a fine point gold paint marker and an assortment of cheap nail polish, five dollars for the set from Five Below. The flowers are based loosely on ancient Greek decorative motifs. I had started to paint flowers in this style when painting The Secret Garden , the subject of my July 21 post ( https://rmw-ramblings.blogspot.com/2024/07/over-mantle-secret-garden.htm) but abandoned the idea because the contrast was poor on my copper-toned ground. Here's a detail before I painted over... Several years ago I used the same style in a detail in the group Erodios ( https://rmw-ramblings.blogspot.com/2021/04/19-april-20