Large Yellow Wildflowers 3, 4, and 5Flores Silvestres Grandes y Amarillas 3, 4 y 5

Here are the next three in the large yellow wildflower series of the beautiful large sunflower-like flowers which started blooming around the first of October in the now-naturalized park in northern Mexico City.  This just shows you how important it is to visit natural and nature-taken-over areas frequently because the changes can be huge. It is hard to imagine that it is the same place where I took my Agave photos in the winter.  It looked so desolate then, but now at the end of the rainy season it is just full of green foliage and flowers.

Large Yellow Wildflowers 3

Large Yellow Wildflowers 3 by Christopher Johnson

Large Yellow Wildflowers 4

Large Yellow Wildflowers 4 by Christopher Johnson

Large Yellow Wildflowers 5

Large Yellow Wildflowers 5 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

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