Sunflowers

I've got a new phone, a Pixel 7 Pro and I've been experimenting with the macro feature. I'm impressed with the details on these dying sunflowers..

{I resized the photos to 8oo pixels on the largest side for the blog, don't know if this alters the viewing of details too much]

FOTD

Friday Face Off

Flower Drawings

IF - Repeat

Illustration Friday challenge - repeat

Autumn & Mesmerizing

Three versions of Autumn for the Three Muses challenge

[altered photos, the interesting window in the version below was at Cragside House]

And for the "Illustration Friday" challenge - mesmerizing - I started off with a brush pen doodle and altered it in Paint.Net for a mesmerizing effect [well maybe it would be if you looked at it long enough]

Sketchbook No 9 - p1, 3, 5, 7

More pages from sketchbook 9

brush pen drawings

Sunflowers, Echinacea & Rolling Stamps 26-29

These are photographs I took in my garden the other day, between the rain storms.

I did actually put them on a post yesterday but then the power supply to the internet blew up just as I was about to post, so it didn't work. I could imagine a fire starting from that incident so I'm glad we were in the house when it happened. Anyway all fixed now as you can see.

Rolling stamp 26 is made from fun foam in the shape of buttons

for the pattern below I drew on paper first, although I don't always do that.

The stamp below is made from lace wrapped around an empty paint bottle.

I'm off to the Birmingham quilt show tomorrow, anyone else going there?