Painting a Series

In my last group of paintings I worked on a series which began with one painting called Culmination.  In the series, I used a similar method of preparing the backgrounds, then drawing circles and filling them in, and finally drawing a leaf pattern and filling it in.  Each layer is somewhat transluscent, allowing the previous layers to show through:

  Canvas #42 40" x 40"

  Canvas #41  44" x 44"

  Patchouli 30" x 30"

  Earth Songs  40" x 40"

I had to go back several times and change the shade of color I used in each of these, until I felt the blend was right.