I love flourishing. Really.Love.It. Based on the work of penman in the Victorian era, flourishing usually has some plant elements that complement the strokes. This little cartouche was from a bookmark I did in November. I used some inexpensive burgundy pearl watercolor for the word, then filled it out with simple holly leaves and gold watercolor berries. In studying the work of the penman from the 1800s, rarely were the plant elements botanically correct. Leaves, flowers, etc were more suggestions of types of plants. People get it though and I just think it's lovely to look at and great fun to do.
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