Monday...with Yellow Canvas Beauty

This is the second of four posts showing some of the process and images I shot for Australian based Canvas Beauty who asked me to create some unique table photographs for them...

I had so many shasta daisies over the Summer that I decided to work on two yellow themes...

As the daisies are bold, I tried to soften them with honeysuckle, ferns, marjoram, fennel and seeds whilst reflecting the yellow centres with the lemons...

As Canvas use loads of natural products I wanted to include at least a few edible and aromatic flowers too...

( although these beautiful hand made wooden boxes used for storing oils smelled amazing anyway! )

As Canvas is based in Australia I found a couple of vintage maps to include in the composition...

( you can see the other one here and here... )

Canvas Beauty pride themselves on their products which are full of wonderful herbal extracts and unique essential oils harnessing natural power as well as a natural healing therapy.

Follow them on Instagram @canvasbeautyau and on Facebook where you can see more of my photos

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Monday...with Pink Canvas Beauty

Over the last few months I’ve been working on such a lovely project for the Australian based Canvas Beauty.

Canvas asked me to create 4 unique table compositions with various colour themes and, like their products, connect with nature.

It was a perfect project for me as its a joy to compose these pieces...

Over the next 3 Mondays I’ll be posting pictures of the process of how I put their images together, starting with today’s pink theme...

Part of the joy of my compositions comes directly from nature itself, so when these Japanese Anemone petals were scattered over the garden path it sort of got me started...

I was working with one of the Canvas oil burners and decided to include a hydrangea petal to highlight the water, but to reflect that beautiful thing when petals just fall into ornamental ponds...

I wanted to re-create or at least capture some of the prettiness of the anemones outside...

as well as the freshness of the flowers in the morning...

...I lit up the burner last of all and I was so pleased that the warm glow of the candle picked out the centres of the shasta daisies as well as the anemones...

One composition often informs another, and although the rose petals didn’t feature in this pink composition... I just couldn’t leave them out!

Canvas Beauty pride themselves on their products which are full of wonderful herbal extracts and unique essential oils harnessing natural power as well as a natural healing therapy.

Follow them on Instagram @canvasbeautyau and on Facebook  and you’ll be able to see more of my photos.

* this is a sponsored post