Bloomin' Mums

Sharing a doodle for Sunday Sketches today, created in Sketches by Tayasui.  We travel a lot to high school football games and marching band competitions this time of year so it's nice to have a little art studio contained in my iPad.

Bloomin' Mums, October 2013, Created in Sketches for iPad

These are chrysanthemums ("mums" for short) and are great fall flower in our area.  My doodles of them are a lot like little mandalas so it was fun and relaxing to create.  The Sketches app has some fun textures to play with, as you can see in the background.

Mums come in all sorts of lovely colors and they bloom prolifically.

Bees like them, too!

As I said, we've been busy with my son's marching season in band.  His band is huge and they perform mililtary style marching, which requires a lot of discipline and teamwork.  I am in awe of what band directors can get 200+ teenagers to do in unison!

I'm still trying to figure out how to post a short video, so in the meantime here's a photo of a portion of the band.  (This is about one quarter of the band.)

I've finally discovered Instagram and have a some fun the last few days playing with the filters they offer.  I'm really not looking for yet another thing to complicate my life, but Instagram is so simple it actually makes posting pictures easier.  The above image was put through the Amaro filter.  I like the effect.  

To add the writing I imported the photo into Sketches and used the pencil tool on a second layer.  Working on a separate layer allowed me to play with color/pencil thickness, erasing easily until I found something I liked.  Ahhh...so much fun to be had with these apps and so little time!

I hope you are enjoying a restful weekend.  We're done with the busy part here...today we play!

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