VW Beetle Artistic Photos Updated

I like to periodically go back and review past photos and images and take a fresh look at the subject and consider applying new techniques, filters, or styles to the artwork. Last night and this morning I refreshed three VW Beetle car photos. I fixed some details I missed and applied some filters to make each work smoother. All of these photos are available as custom framed museum quality fine art prints at Imagekind.

Artistic VW Beetle Photos

I really love these classic cars and I think black makes them look even better! They were still being made in Puebla until recently (last year?), and they're still very common in Mexico since they are easy to repair and get parts.

Gray Roses 1 Less Color (Mostly desaturated)

Gray Roses 1 Less Color

The only constructive criticism I got for my Gray Roses was that there was too much color in the artwork, so here is the same work with the saturation to about -60 or so.



My goal in creating the first gray roses artwork was to explore the concept of a gray rose,  so I wanted to have colorful leaves as if the gray flower color were normal, but I imagine that some people might find the colorful leaves to be too bold or distracting.

Which do you prefer? (see previous post for colorful gray roses)