Orange Dahlia on a Barn Door

Dahlias with wood textures

Faery Hydrangea 4

Lace Leaf Hydrangea with fern and tree bark textures. The delicate veins are painted to better highlight the structure.

Faery Hydrangea 1

Layered hydrangea with shrub foliage and panted details. To #faerysoul

Purple Day Lily

From my garden, with layers of tree bark and evergreen needles.

Purple Day Lily composite

Blended layers of Day Lily and Wild flowers. Looking for the small joys.

Sunflowers composite

I came here to photograph the Locust tree grove, and found these beautiful yellow daisies. Blended with other textures.

Day Lilys blended with blended textures

Day Lilys with blended textures, can you tell what they are? (Ferns and wood grain.)

A Dream of Day Lilys

Orangef Day Lily layered with cedar bark and lavender stems.

Red Rose Composite

I love the water droplets after the morning watering the garden. Textures of Lavender and wood grain.

Rose Scarab Mandala

Rose mandala. Do you see the Scarab? The Scarab beetle is a sacred symbol from ancient Egypt, meaning regeneration, or new life from decay. I wasn't looking for this, it found me!

Red Rose on Ferns

This spring I found a perfectly symmetrical fern on our morning walk. As you may noticed, I have used the fern image in several of these composites.

Roses and Lavender stems

I tried to convey a sweeping movement.

Fuzzy Logic

The shallow depth of field blurred these orange flowers, which are over layered with texture from shrubbery.

Orange extravaganza

I painted orange and blue colors over the clusters of needles to match the colors of the flowers. I am still not sure what the name of these flowers is.

Sweep and Flow

Same magenta dahlia with a fantasy background, painted textures.

Orange Dahlias #3

Orange dahlias #3. From my garden. Painted layers of shrubbery needles and wood grain. Maybe my favorite.

Before image from #swanislanddahlias.

Yellow 3#

I stretched the petals with the smudge tool, and pasted over the original flower, to create a doublet image.

Summer mood. Hot yellow. Its going to be 100 deg in Oregon this weekend. Not good for wild fires.

Pink or Orange?

Another week of Flowers. As I am learning PS, flowers are easy to work with, and look nice.

A New Leaf