First, I roughly blocked in the flower shapes with thinned down acrylic. (I use a clear acrylic thinner and water to thin the acrylic.) The acrylic needs to be thinned enough to scratch through.

This image shows the green flower shapes covered with liquid frisket in preparation for airbrushing the background.

This image shows the airbrushed background. You can see the reflection of the frisket still covering the flowers.

In this image, I have removed the frisket to reveal the roughly painted flower shapes.

I used white transfer paper to trace basic details back onto the painted surface. You can see the white lines from the tracing.

Here, I have half way finished the first layer of scratching. A few of the flowers in the lower left have not been scratched yet.

The tools I used were x-acto knives, scalpels, fiber glass brushes, tattoo needles, and steel wool.

The finished first layer of scratching looks like a ghost image of the final piece.

I tend to over scratch this layer.

Once I completed a pretty thorough layer of scratching, I added washes of acrylic to add color. To create washes I use more water and a clear thinner to thin down the acrylic to watercolor consistency. I then scratched the highlights back in.

To arrive at the final piece, I completed several alternating layers of acrylic washes and scratching until the piece felt finished.

All pieces receive five to eight layers of spray varnish allowing them to be framed without glass.