This piece has five mushrooms against a dark background. Four have red to orange caps with white patches, which identifies them as fly agaric mushrooms, Amanita muscaria. One mushroom at left center is turned to show the underside, with the gills spread in a wide fan. Another at lower left bends on a slanted stem and has a pale brown cap with white spots. At upper right, a large cap faces forward and slightly down. At right center, a second red-capped mushroom stands below it. Near the lower middle, a smaller red-capped mushroom sits in front.
The stems are pale gray to cream and rise at different angles. Two stems carry skirt-like rings below the caps. The caps show scattered white warts, with stronger highlights on the upper surfaces. The underside views show dense gills in pale gray and cream tones. Dark leaf shapes sit behind the mushrooms near the lower half of the design.
The composition centers on the contrast between the bright caps and the dark ground. The mushrooms vary in size and position, which gives the design depth and balance. The subject matter is botanical and woodland-based, focused on a grouped study of fly agaric mushrooms.
This chart contains 65 colors and is 273x330 stitches.
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