Good morning everyone!  I test every new texture and background I create on my favorite subjects I photograph regularly, which are bald eagles, Tilda {my Mockingbird} and songbirds in my garden, like the sweet little Bluebirds.  I hope you enjoy this video showing how I turned a recent bluebird photo into art using one of these new backgrounds.

I work on art every morning while I have my coffee.  It's the most peaceful time of day, while everyone is asleep.  This morning, I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do, so I sat down and started blocking out an abstract landscape using Procreate on the iPad.  At some point, I got bored, and decided I didn't want to work on the painting anymore...but I kind of liked the way it looked so far.  I decided to start adding textures on top and see what I could do to turn the basic painting into, simply by using textures.  The video below gives an overview of what I did to create the final work of art -- well, actually TWO works of art.  :)