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Add a 525 450 pixel rectangle behind your drawing. Reduce the seed head flower to 70% and the bud to 50% and place them over the stems as shown. If you still have the ellipse you used to create the stem brush, place it over the bottom of the bottom leaf and resize it to blend it in with the stem.

And that's it. You're done. You're excused.

Here is my "serving suggestion" you know like you see on the front of food packages where they have added a lot of things to the photo that are not included in package and are referred to as a serving suggestion? Like a package of heat-and-eat French Fries shown alongside a big, juicy 16 ounce steak and a generous serving of asparagus with a rich hollandaise sauce.

I switched the seed head flower with the bud. It just seemed more balanced. I added a wall shadow to everything and added an embossed inset with the full name of the flower. The font I used also had a ligature ae which I substituted. Ah, and the seeds. A few of them got away from the seed head.

My flower is a simplified version. The actual weed has about 15 buds which open at the rate of about one a day. Here's a link to my stock photo site with more flowers and weeds of the southwest.

How'd you do? Did you finish? Did you get stuck at a certain place in the tutorial? I welcome your comments, questions, corrections and suggestions.

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Gary W. Priester
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