Flor de la Vida

I've been doing things with the classic Flower of Life pattern recently. You can see some pieces here. I don't want to call all the pieces "Flower of Life" so I'm using different languages! I tried another round tile with the one main circle in pink and the rest in green.

I liked it enough, but there seemed to be too much distinct separation between the green and the pink. What to do? I remembered four hummingbird pictures I'd saved and covered with layers of acrylic matte medium, thinking I might use them on ATCs. Maybe one of them could be added here.

Nice, but it really didn't show up very well. More work needed. I added color with a light pink brush pen, outlined the beak with a black 005 Micron pen, and put a few pink lines here and there on the bird. Then I made the main 'flower' more pink, which turned out to be too much pink and dominated the bird. But it was the lightest pink pen I have. Hmm.

Out with the trusty white pen to lighten it again. That's better. I added more pink to the wing on the right and a few pale pink bits around the edges of the tile. I think that's it. I like how the bird may not be the first thing you notice, but it's a nice little surprise.