Starflower with added depth, shadows and emerging Stalks

Here are the two starflowers emerging even more so than before, after this I decided to think about creating more of a route look to the base of the starflowers to see if they would seem more deepseated within the lillypad themselves...

A good side look of the stalk and flower above shown on the furthest part of the stone on the left of it. This part I am leaving to the last or to select moments when really patient and creating the dissected look on the surface of the top of the flower that shows segments like a mandarin or satsuma might have too. Segments are involving a lot of concentrated effort that will not allow for me to slip or cause error....

Here is a good picture of the bush next to the starflower, a small bush that has just emerged and is starting to grow alongside the lillypad with its starflowers next to it. The bush was something also slightly religious based, a bit like the burning bush, but perhaps I am just striking a sensation that goes with my passion, rather than just seeing it just simply as a bush....

I am going to be quite satisfied seeing a little more colour shown on these starflowers when they have been glazed with wax and the wax dries to make the colour of these starflowers emerge from their surrounding lower area, beneath them.

A good look at them, head on, gives one the impression that they are quite splendid standing upright, they have a stark look to them, they are quite well placed and do not touch on the other shapes within the rock. I have also been wise in thinking the roots need to be displayed on the bottom side of the flowers, otherwise they don't seem rooted to anything, that would be bad....

Later on you will see, as I have already started on the new starflowers, that this side, has become something more than a void, or open space, the open space does destroy the aspect of believing the rock is the ''Starflower emerging from Lillypad'', if you don't believe it, then it is only half baked, I never like half baked things, they are almost as good as not done or even attempted. I am quite strict when I believe my instinct tells me to get something done right. But maybe swaying away from strictness and inclination to finish something rarely might have some advantage, depending on the circumstance...

Here it is true that there needs a lot more work involved on the stone.... It will need to be a good job on the top as the top has a lot surrounding it and no spaces... i.e. the petals, the sepals, the stalk and the starflowers, it is also the centerpiece of the structure...

I later created more depth to the outside of the second stalk shown on the very left hand side... It is important that that was done as otherwise the 'emergence' of the new starflowers, would not seem to be part of the other three side, so the stone curves and with the curvature of the rock there is the inclination to create further depth, even if the depth is already quite sound.

Here we see the roots that look quite thorough with the starflower that has been deepened a little as well...

A funny look of me showing my stone, with the 10 second shutter delay on camera, it allowed to choose some sort of position, even when I cannot entirely manipulate the photo in the best possible light with only 10 seconds to spare...It still suffices to show my great delight in the work involved in being eager, enthusiastic and somehow each time enlightened, enlightened through creative distraction, with some feeling of growing or becoming more sound or of more substance perhaps, perhaps, that is all we can hope for.

Here is Starflower emerging from Lillypad as it appears all ready and accomplished. The plant is now a desirable thing that is so fully green and lush with his Antoine Exupery inspired starflowers emerging with a great might out from the leaves that are swaying on the pond.