Winter Flowers 2014

Art director Ethel Kessler, of Bethesda, MD, chose four winter-blooming flowers with colors that worked together as a group yet stood out individually. Potted plants served as stamp artist William Low’s models. To keep the images fresh, he photographed the flowers at their peak, capturing details in close-ups that accentuate the plants’ foliage and blossoms.

Low created the digital paintings in Photoshop. Using a cordless pen or stylus, he “painted” his brushstrokes on a pressure sensitive screen, adding dabs of color and weaving layers of texture into the paintings.