INSTAGRAM YOUR FLOWER PHOTOS AND DRAWINGS

Instagram's filters enhance just about any photo, but I especially love it with photos of flowers and drawings.  The colors become more vivid and there is a lot more contrast between light and dark.  Just thought I'd share some of my favorites from this summer's garden.

Instagram can also make an ordinary drawings look like woodcarvings or etchings.  I took a couple of the cemetery statue and pear drawings I did last winter and tried it out on them.  So many possibilities for framing, printing onto fabric, or making Christmas cards, gift tags, or business cards.

A Christmas gift tag.

From pencil drawing . . .

to cropped and filtered . . .

to framed.

The possibilities are endless!  What creative things have YOU done with your Instagrammed photos?

PEARS AND ANGELS

I've been doing some drawing. 

I've been focusing mostly on two subjects - pears and angels.  Pears are such a great subject for drawing - they seem to actually have little personalities.   Depending on how they're positioned and which way their stems are going, they almost seem to be having little conversations with each other.  When I draw pears, first I take a photo of them. 

 Then I change it from color to black and white - that helps me get the shading right.  I'm a beginner at this and that really helps!

Then . . . to draw . . . and the time just melts away!

Then, a while back, I did a post on a little trip we took to a local cemetery to get some pictures of angels statues. 

 Some of those ended up in drawings also . . .

The eyes are pretty creepy on this one - need to work on that!

 

So that's what I've been up to lately.

Now to put away my pencils and paper and switch gears.  My suitcase is packed (3/4 craft supplies and 1/4 clothing) and I'm ready to work on some other crafts in McKinney with Jan and a bunch of her friends!

The next post will be coming from McKinney, Texas!