Here, it is cold. No snow, but dreary and cold, so I am looking for sunshine in my art.

I started with the leaves, creating one from the grid and duplicating, resizing, and placing them around the grid.

I then created the flower, duplicating and resizing its base to create a more detailed, layered flower placed with the leaf pattern.

Next, I added the stem and the seed pods.

Then I added the square and circle backgrounds, adding in gradients-- darker at lower right to bright sunshine on upper left.

Finally, I created the border with the elements already created.

Here you can see the leaf and flower planning:

 

 

I need to rewatch the detail video to plan next steps for adding a little interest with some details, probably for the leaves.

What do you think?

 

 

I decided to take Chris Heath's advice and check out Christopher Dresser's patterns. I decided on a leafy background, taking out the border and creating a pattern instead. I added in two more motifs: a larger flower and just leaves, and for each of those I created a someone random pattern of all three circular motifs with the columns of leaves in the background. Then I played with hues.

I also created a brush stroke of 3 repeating brush streaks, which I added to the tree motif so the tree didn't just "appear."