Waterlilies done

I added shading to the flower, and restitched the bud, giving it more definition. The stems were padded with 6 strands of floss, twisted and couched.

I cropped the photo to the way it would be matted.
I will now get out my paint brushes and try to paint over the resist lines that are showing, and I still need to decide what to do about the shadow.  Keep my fingers crossed; if I messed this up I'll consider this a good learning experience, or do a Rev 2.0.

Well I painted over the resist line, and they turned out ok - see underneath the stems. I darkened the shadow, and put my signature prominently on it to distract. I think I'll call this done. It's acceptable and was a good learning experience.