Work in progress: My diamond painting 'Bloom' is nearly finished. One more day to go!

Here is Lucy Farmer's diamond painting 'Bloom' with the reference images she is working from

Layer #4 of the painting ‘Bloom’ consists of Ultramarine Violet and Pyrrole Orange.

The third layer of paint went on the diamond today, taking longer than expected - but it’s done and looks great!

The grisaille underpainting layer of my diamond painting ‘Bloom’ is now done!

Why bother with diamond kangaroo genitals?

30 minutes of progress on the grisaille layer. It’s important to make time for creating every day.

The beginnings of the grisaille layer of diamond painting ‘Bloom’ by Lucy Farmer.

Gold is lush. Reflective. It symbolises wealth, power, status, money. What is the emotional response of the audience seeing so much gold?

The first layers of paint on the diamond ‘Bloom’.

Today I worked on the gold kangaroo’s diamond genitals - progress was made but there’s a lot more to do…