Rose of Sharon

Timelapse of a painting I'd made for a Facebook art group with regular themed challenges. In this case, it was to personify a flower. I'll definitely be remaking this; I normally do my human figures in vectors because of the clean lines and flat textures. White paint strokes make them look rather doughy. The reference was a stock image by the lovely Maria Amanda from her DeviantART page: http://mariaamanda.deviantart.com/ photography by Mike Thomassen.
I used LibreOffice Draw to make a kind of mannequin to import as a layer into Procreate on my iPad.