This is my second concept piece from a suggestion to my recent journal query. At least this started from a suggestion by *Grondhammar to have different things growing from a terracotta pot. I ended up with the idea of what might happen when a child buries his/her “treasure”. You know—every kid has things that they treasure most, that to adults may seem like insignificant toys or even junk. This time, the idea unfolded almost in complete story format, but I’ll quickly summarize: a child decides to bury the treasure “like a real pirate” (I even have real pirate gold, mommy!), and finds the perfect place in the ground underneath an unused flower pot (the pot on my map marks the spot!), and then I thought how fitting it would be if from those buried pieces of treasure, flowers would grow bearing real treasure…jewels.

I know, as a whole, flowers out of a flower pot is not a creative spin on the original concept, but once I had the buried treasure/jewel flower idea, it might as well have been written in stone—it had to be that. I have to say that with all of the individual pieces in this, it ended up being quite complex. And I did not have as much time to devote to it as I might have liked…there are still things that could be done…but this has taken over my brain for the last two weekends, and has been my dinner during my only available hour during each weekday, so it’s better that I call it complete. And I’m pretty happy with the result.

…All of that monologue to say THANK YOU, Sean, for sparking this idea in my mind. I had fun visualizing it and making it come to life.



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References (there are a ton for this, so if I forgot to list any, I apologize)
Ground:
various brushes
[link] "Mud Texture

Sky:
Blaze

Grass/Moss:
basic grass brush
Rock Gathers Moss

Roots:
Crazy Roots by ~Stockinthebox
Root 4 by ~Ivette-Stock

Pot:
Terracotta by ~Pinkcatt-stock

Flowers/Foilage:
Bamboo
Bonsai Tree
Lotus bud and full bloom
Three Sunflowers
Flower-301 (purple) by =sourcow
Flower-004 (orange) by ~SurfindaMatrixStk
Daffodil

Jewels:
Diamond Cut Crystal, Tumbled Glass Emerald, and Tumbled Glass Ruby by =FantasyStock
Gems by ~clockwork-
Jewel


Treasure:
Marbles
Maneki Neko (lucky cat)
Car
Treasure Coin
Skull toy
Coin stack
Chocolate Coin by =freakystuffstock
Best Friend necklace