Maestas - Final Project

I have a love for flowers, so i wanted to do my final with flowers. My first idea was to use flower petals as my paints. I wanted to use different colored petals to had the highlights and the shadows. But I didn't take in to consideration that the petals would start to brown. What i could have done was maybe let the petals dry so that that would be the final color that they would be. Also i wasn't sure how well the dried petals would work. So I started off by doing the background in the style of impasto, i really like the idea of having the texture in the background. The next step that i took was to glue rose petals to the canvas board where i had already drawn the cherry blossom flower. I used cement glue because it was heavy and came with a brush, i thought it would be the best way to get he petals to stay. It was more of an experimental process. After I let the glue dry over night and when i woke up the petals had browned a bit and it wasn't what i wanted. So i have to think of what else i could do, so i started to paint with oils to had the shadows and it didn't match well with the petals. I decided that the best choice would be to paint over the petals with the oil paint. The end product turned out better than i  could have imagined. With the petals under the paint it gave a new texture that added to the final painting.