Shanti is the ancient Sanskrit word for peace.
Hydrangea symbolizes friendship and understanding, the butterfly symbolizes new life or new beginning.
The small flowers are difficult to interpret in embroidery. I think I will do them in cut-out silk held by frenchknots or beads. The leaves will be a sampler of different stitches.
Half of the butterfly wings will be wired and detached. The grass will be the same as the Shalom iris-variety of yarns and ribbons. The helmet will not be padded, but might be of the same appliquéd material.
Shanti (watercolor)
worksofhands Berlin 
Excellent.
i imagine this was quite painstaking
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Thanks kseverny!
On the contrary, the Shalom iris took less than 2 hours including drying. And this one took only 3 hours, including drying.
The drawing took only around half an hour. I used a limited palette which i am familiar with because I am red and green color blind. I also could not tell violets from some blues, some yellows and oranges from ochre or green. I constructed a chart of some sort so my colors don´t look weird for others. lol! My painting teachers told me to paint as I see. I guess they are curious what will be the outcome. I already made self-portrait with green skin. haha. I thought I was using a flesh color.
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