Critique Session...

Lark,
these are beautiful! my mother-in-law embroiders and things like that, so i know how time consuming it can be. these look like you put a great deal of time and heart into them.
i like how the first one is such an ancient style. the details are very nice. i really like how you used the colors and fabrics to do your piece that they would have used in that time period. very nice replica!
and the second's colors are so beautiful.
you are very talented :) [and patient!]

Lark- They are beautiful.

The replica work looks exhausting :) I love the warm colors that they used in that period. The detail is very intricate for a piece like this, I'm amazed at your patience. :)

The other reminds me of an emblem/logo/symbol of some kind. I like how every color of the rainbow was used and the brightness of the colors. All in all very beautiful.

In General for anyone/everyone:

I would just be careful on the color combos, I noticed some were warm tones and some were bright meaning that the tone may not always go well together. Warm, cool, greyed, bright, bold, etc.. can be combined but they must have something to tie them together like all the same color just in the different discriptions above. Color Wheels are great to see what colors will go well with others. General rule of thumb is the colors directly across from each other, the thre right next to each other, and the tri which is two that are seperated only by one color and the color directly across from the one that is seperating the other two.

Of course your canvas is yours and have fun with it, use lots of colors alway experiment and if you do not erase/change it at least once the you are not a real artist ;)