Inspired by intriguing and beautiful plants, leaves, flowers, & seeds, and mostly macro photographs of trees, leaves, flowers, and seeds, many from the mountains of northern New Mexico and from the desert in central New Mexico.
Astute Graphics/Illustrator Drawing & Coloring + Mesh Tormentor/Photoshop/On1/Topaz Digital Effects
A swirling soft breeze surrounds a bright yellow festival sunflower with eighty nine satiny silk petals and petite five-petal florets surrounding the Fibonacci whirl center.
Pencil Drawing + Astute Graphics/Illustrator Tracing + Photoshop Coloring
Beginning at the upper left, a lone labyrinthian line dilly-dallies its way across the sky and down into a large beckoning daisy that is growing profusely in a sandy mix of dunes and tall grass. Spiraling and boustrophedoning here and there, the line finally and eventually completes its journey in the very center of the exhausted flower.
Photography + Photoshop/On1/Topaz Digital Effects
A magnificent giant sunflower with cheerful streaks of painterly mischief faces brightly into the warm summer sun.
Photography + Photoshop/On1/Topaz/Filter Forge Digital Effects
Spring lilac blossoms, rippling in delicate pink shimmers, the fragrance so sweet, whispering sunshine perfume in blushing bundles of fresh flowering cheer.
Photography + Photoshop/On1 Digital Effects
Tracing the delicate vanishing paths of life in an Autumn Cottonwood leaf, bathed in golden light, leaving only a shadow of the long hot journey through Summer.
Enamel Painting on Vinyl Record + Photoshop/On1/Topaz Digital Effects
A warm and inviting festival of multi-hued flowering dabs and blots, dancing about in an uneven arrangement on a soft tan canvas.
Photography + Photoshop/On1/Topaz Digital Effects
A cheerful bright tumbleweed, deceitfully inviting with soft painterly fronds, basking in the glow of the hot desert sun… look but don’t touch, best just wave good-bye as the wind kicks up and it rolls bouncingly away.
From a photograph of a very large and stickery tumbleweed in the desert southwest of Socorro, New Mexico.
Photography + Digital Painting Effects
A glorious bright sunflower with an abundance of seeds and artfully curling petals and leaves basks in the painterly light of a beautiful New Mexico morning.
Photography + Digital Painting Effects
A brilliant yellow giant sunflower just on the verge of bursting into a profusion of nourishing seeds stands majestically against a blue blue sky decorated with squiggling embellishments of summery delight.
Pencil Drawing & Photography + Illustrator & Photoshop Painting
A small farmer in wrinkled blue dungarees and a ubiquitous straw hat stops by his crop of carrot on a beautiful late summer afternoon. Looks like it’s almost ready to harvest!
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
A plume of Goatsbeard seeds patiently awaits the inevitable wind, the light and feathery gossamer parachutes all puffed in anticipation to be floating away upon the breeze.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
A delicate trace outlines the beaming yellow petals of cheerfully blooming sunflowers.
Photography + Digital Effects
Playful organic shapes swirl about with the lyrical petals of a giant sunflower that is bent upside down from the weight of its bumper crop of seeds.
Photography + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects
New Mexican Desert Thistle - a beautiful flowering plant that grows throughout the Desert Southwest. This delightful specimen is from the Jemez Mountains, northern New Mexico.
Photography + Digital Effects
A serenely quiet glowing blanket of snow coats majestic Ponderosa Pines in the Jemez Mountains, northern New Mexico.
Photography + Digital Image Effects
Cheerfully blooming soft purple, yellow, and cream Snapdragons, delightful in the garden and as a fine art print on the wall!
Illustrator & Photoshop Painting + Photography & Digital Effects
A vibrant mandala sun in a dramatic dark cloudy sky shines upon a field of tall flourishing single blades of grass.
Photography + Digital Painting Effects
Looking out over a blooming field of friendly flowers, a large golden yellow sunflower basks in the luxurious glowing light.
Photography + Digital Image Effects
An early autumn Aspen leaf on its final journey drifts down and gets caught temporarily in the needles of a Ponderosa Pine branch.
Photography + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects
In a field of botanical companions, a majestic golden sunflower basks in the glowing light of a mid-summer morning.
Photography + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects
Farewell to the forest I have known, for the years of drought, pine bark beetles, and alarming fires will likely overcome the stately Ponderosa Pines in the coming decades, alas.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
Beautiful young Prickly Pear cactus, frozen in late Spring.
Photography + Digital Image Effects
Roasted peanuts in the shell, a delicious and nutritious snack, a great source of protein, and a beautiful example of the intriguing patterns in nature we might find by taking a very close view.
Photography + Digital Painting Effects
A majestic Quaking Aspen with a charmingly curved trunk, bathed in the warm glow of an autumn afternoon, its brilliant green and yellow leaves rustling gently in the breeze.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
A brilliant yellow Cottonwood leaf has fluttered to the ground, having completed its purpose and its journey; now preserved in all its glowing splendor, but never to be seen again upon the tree.
Photography + Digital Effects
A theatrically austere view of magnificent Aspen trees, the painterly leaves of Fall surreally white in the uppermost reaches against a darkly dramatic blue-gray sky.
Photography + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects
Soft glowing petite purple flowers of a Pineapple Lily bathed in morning light, against a luminous background of lime green leaves.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
Rippling rays of yellow light radiate out from the irregular center of a bright and cheerful double-center sunflower.
Photography + Digital Image Effects
A bumper crop of giant striped sunflower seeds, cheerfully facing the sun.
Photography + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects
The bright and sunny disposition of an Orange Sneezeweed Daisy makes me feel happy all over :-)
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
A beautiful large daisy floats serenely above a reflecting pond.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
A frolic of Prairie Asters dancing in the breeze.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
A symmetrical view of Ponderosa Pine tree rings, bathed in warm glowing light, the tree itself having fallen by the wayside, its life recounted in the topography displayed upon its stump.
Photography + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects
A field of bright and cheery sunflowers, merrily waving in the summer breeze.
Photography + Digital Image Effects
Beautiful large Split-Leaf Philodendron leaves, basking in a luxurious gold and copper glow.
Photography + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects
Aspen leaves and Ponderosa Pine needles, adrift in a miniature ice floe.
