Old Red Rose - Simple Floral and Plant Art Apparel

Old Red Rose - Simple

Old Red Rose - Simple

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From Christopher Johnson Floral and Plant Art @ Skreened

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Old Red Rose 2 B&W Floral and Plant Art Apparel

Old Red Rose 2 B&W

Old Red Rose 2 B&W

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Old Red Rose Antiqued Floral and Plant Art Apparel

Old Red Rose Antiqued

Old Red Rose Antiqued

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Lantana Flowers 2 Floral and Plant Art

Lantana Flowers 2

Lantana Flowers 2

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Yellow Chrysanthemums 3 and 4

Yellow Chrysanthemums 3 by Christopher Johnson


Yellow Chrysanthemums 4 by Christopher Johnson

Yellow Chrysanthemums 3 & 4 were the last artworks from that set of still life photos I took to use the watercolor look. I hope you enjoyed the series!

Here are a few of the great gifts at Zazzle with these floral artworks:

Yellow Chrysanthemums 4 Sticker

Yellow Chrysanthemums 4 Women's T-shirt

Yellow Chrysanthemums 3 USA Postage Stamps

Yellow Chrysanthemums 3 Mousepad

Yellow Chrysanthemums 2

Yellow Chrysanthemums 2 by Christopher Johnson

The second in a series of yellow chrysanthemum flowers with watercolor effects. This series is also available on Redbubble and on great gift products at Zazzle (in fact most of my work is even if I don't say anything :-P ).

Here are a few of the cool gifts with this floral artwork on Zazzle.

Yellow Chrysanthemums 2 Women's T-Shirt

Yellow Chrysanthemums 2 Mousepad

Yellow Chrysanthemums 2 keychain

Yellow Chrysanthemums 2 Greeting Card

Yellow Chrysanthemums 1

Yellow Chrysanthemums 1 by Christopher Johnson

I've been photographing quite a few chrysanthemums and I've been trying to do something different with the images each time. With this series, I'm working on giving the yellow chrysanthemum flowers a watercolor look in post processing. I really love how this look accentuates the petal edges and has great texture when viewed up close.


Here are a few of the products available at Zazzle with the artwork

Yellow Chrysanthemums 1 Coffee Mug

Yellow Chrysanthemums 1 Greeting Card

Yellow Chrysanthemums 1 Mousepad

Pink Rose Impression

Pink Rose Impression Artwork

Pink Rose Impression is my last rose artwork of 2009. It was from a reference photo I had taken in the spring so it really feels like I'm covering the year with this artwork.

It is a very beautiful pink rose flower in a water glass. Simple, charming, and elegant. A rose flower that is a beautiful memory with a touch of sepia to soften the pink and give it a romantic feel of times gone by. Nostalgia in pink. Available as a fine art print.



Pink Rose Impression by Christopher Johnson

I want to also remind you that almost all my art is also available as great art gifts, cards, and stamps at Zazzle.

Pink Rose Impression Greeting Card

Pink Centered Carnations 1 & 2 Ethereal Radiance and Contemplation

Carnations are my favorite cut flower since they are not common in gardens yet very cheap cut. They also keep nice for about 3 days.  They also come in quite a few different color combinations.  Roses are also easy to buy as cut flowers, but cut-roses seem to be inferior in quality compared to those I can find growing in parks or sidewalks.  Here are the first two in my pink centered carnation flower series. The centers are pink and the rest is white.


Pink Centered Carnations 1 - Ethereal Radiance by Christopher Johnson


Pink Centered Carnations 2 - Contemplation by Christopher Johnson

Pink Chrysanthemums 3 and 4

Trying to see what else I could do with those pretty mauve-pink chrysanthemum flowers, I came up with these two. #3 was just featured at Redbubble this morning in the "in the pink" group which shows you how you never know what people will like.   My favorite is Pink Chrysanthemums 2 from the previous post.

Pink Chrysanthemums 3

Pink Chrysanthemums 3 by Christopher Johnson

Pink Chrysanthemums 4

Pink Chrysanthemums 4 by Christopher Johnson

Pink Chrysanthemums 2

Here is the second mauve-pink chrysanthemum artwork in the series from today's flowers. This one has a painterly impressionistic look. I'm very happy with it.

Pink Chrysanthemums 2

Pink Chrysanthemums 2 by Christopher Johnson

Creamy Yellow Rose

While people up north are getting autumn temperatures and colorful leaves, the weather is is only just starting to cool off as we start to enter the dry season.  While I wish I could get photos of snow and leaves for holiday themed artwork, I also enjoy having some flowers all year long.  In cold climates there is a burst of flowers in a few short months while in warm climates you have them all year but not quite so many at a time. Every plant has its season.

While walking back from the bank yesterday through Tultitlán and then Cuautitlán, I took a few photos of flowering trees and plants.  I almost missed this rose flower from a very tall shrub growing over a wall. The flower was above me in the light so as photos are judged, it was very bad lighting, but I thought it was very pretty so I took the photo anyway in hopes of turning it into art.

Creamy Yellow Rose

Creamy Yellow Rose by Christopher Johnson

Creamy Yellow Rose 2

Creamy Yellow Rose 2 by Christopher Johnson

Creamy Yellow Rose - Divinity

Creamy Yellow Rose - Divinity by Christopher Johnson

Large Yellow Wildflowers 1 and 2Flores Silvestres Grandes y Amarillas 1 y 2

Today was a busy day editing two artworks. Although the second one might look like it came from the camera, that is not the case.  These large yellow wildflowers look like small sunflowers, but they weren't turning with the sun so I'll have to assume that they're not sunflowers.  I have a few more great photos of them to post-process.

They were very interesting because they only started to bloom about the beginning of October, before that I took photos of other wildflowers.

Large Yellow Wildflowers 1

Large Yellow Wildflowers 1 by Christopher Johnson

Large Yellow Wildflowers 2

Large Yellow Wildflowers 2 by Christopher Johnson

Large Yellow Wildflowers 2 Antiqued

Large Yellow Wildflowers 2 Antiqued by Christopher Johnson

Pink and White Carnations 2 Claveles Rosas y Blancas 2

Pink and White Carnations 2 is from the same batch of photos I made the first, but as you have probably noticed, I don't like making cookie-cutter artwork.  I post-process each photo separately. Sometimes they look similar and sometimes they don't. While art galleries may not like truly original artwork, I find this to be much less boring.

In this artwork, I decided to enhance the lines and colors present as well as enhance the white in the white flower which in the original photo had a bit too much yellow-green highlights.  I did darken the background a little and reduced the light coming from the window to the left.

Pink and White Carnations 2

Pink and White Carnations 2 by Christopher Johnson

Little White Wildflowers 4 and 5Flores Silvestres Blancas 4 y 5

I feel quite happy with the results of these last two artworks in the white wildflower series. I hope they'll one day make a collector happy.

4 and 5 are both painterly with enhanced highlights and shadows with tonal contrast and some sharpening. It is also very interesting that it is much easier to do painterly artworks than works using other effects which highlight lines or form. I'd be interested in seeing if that is the case for other visual artists.

Little White Wildflowers 4

Little White Wildflowers 5

Little White Wildflowers 2 and 3Flores Silvestres Blancas 2 y 3

These two artworks were from the same photo session here in the "studio".  I again went for a painterly look because I wanted to keep them very soft and gentle almost delicate. I made the effect in the second one much more subtler than the third one because the painterly look made the flower petal edges so indistinct that it was difficult to view so I mixed some of the original back.  In the third version, I added extra highlights to the petal ridges and did some darkening around the edges. I like both of them for very different reasons. I think a collector might enjoy having prints of all three.

Little White Wildflowers 2

Little White Wildflowers 3

Little Yellow Wildflowers 1 Low-keyFlores Silvestres Amarillas 1

This yellow wildflower was pretty, but it is on a very sharp plant covered in tiny spines or thorns.  I gave it a low-key painterly look full of shadows and highlights with a canvas texture.

Little Yellow Wildflowers 1 Low-key

Little White Wildflowers 1Flores Silvestres Blancas 1

I took photos of some more wildflowers that I picked a couple weeks ago. I'd rather take the photos there, but the recent rains have flooded the park's paths and also the last time I spent more than 30 minutes in the park, one of the loser neighbors called the police inventing that I was doing some activity that anyone with good eyesight would know immediately that I wasn't doing that.

These little white wild flowers started blooming around the end of August.

Little White Wildflowers 1

White Oleander Flowers with a Bee 1

I took a few photos of this shrub in bloom while walking the other day. I didn't get a photo of the bee's head. I think it was trying to hide from me.

White Oleander with a Bee 1 Painterly

White Oleander with a Bee 1

Pink Wildflowers 1Flores Silvestres Rosas 1

I took photos of several wildflowers blooming in the nearby (about 5-6 blocks) park a couple weeks ago when walking to the tianguis. Unfortunately I dropped one of my bags (bolsas de mandado) on the way there so I had to put all my vegetables in the other one which made it extra heavy.

I fixed the lighting as best I could and made the background painterly. I think I sharpened it some too. I really am good at forgetting what I do. I don't want each floral artwork to look like the one before.

Pink Wildflowers 1

Pink Wildflowers 1 Antiqued