There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

                            Frances Bacon
 
The above quote just seemed perfect for this little painting ~ which is obviously still a work in progress.  In working to get the lighting to be as dramatic as I wanted I kept adding flowers.  When I finally took a few steps back from it I realized that all those flowers and that huge fern could never fit in that one little pot.  Now I am faced with adding another pot behind it for the bouquet which is going to throw the proportion of the table off.  Sometimes it's fun to just let the painting take over itself but sometimes it's not!  We'll see where this one goes.