Abstract Images Add Interest to Your Craft Projects

Abstract nature images are one of my favorite topics to shoot. The featured images below are good examples of how you can shoot something to create a field of color and/or texture for your art and craft projects. The best abstracts sometimes even look like something else at first glance. This will add visual interest and meaning to your craft projects.

To help illustrate, I’ve placed some abstract nature images in a piano binding journal to add color, texture and visual interest. I hope that these examples will be inspirational to you and your next creative craft project.

Abstract Nature Images Enhance Your Craft Projects

All the images are from the Photos for Artists collections.

Total Exposure

Bare branches are a familiar site to those living in colder climates. By zooming in so that I just capture the jumble of bare sticks and branches I’ve changed how we normally see a tree. Now, we are examining a solid block of thick and thin sticks.

I like the contrast of the stark branches in the bright blue sky. You can use this as a background or cut out the branches to frame something else.

This image is available in Collection 1 on the Footprints And Photos Etsy store.

Parched in the Sun

I am fascinated by how mud puddles dry up and crack in the sun. Out in the Borrego Desert you can find all kinds of texture, thickness and cracking in different locations.

Sometimes the cracks are very deep and make some cool patterns. There is no sense of scale in this image, so it’s hard to gauge how thick the pieces are. In this image it looks like stacks of thick paper have been cracked in place. I love how the sun-baked layers are peeling up at different rates.

I tinted this image to give it an older weathered look. Almost like an old fashioned duotone. Imagine how you could use this in your next craft project — journal, SoulCollage®, scrapbooks and more.

This image is available in Collection 2 on the Footprints And Photos Etsy store.

Roadmap to Fall

This field of rich burnt orange color, with texture and soft edges, is a great background image.

At first it is not so obvious what we are looking at. It could be a drone shot of mountain erosion in the desert. Maybe a heat map of suburban sprawl? Once you see the leaf pop into focus it is hard to unsee.

This image is available in Collection 3 on the Footprints And Photos Etsy store.

Abstract Nature Images for Artists

For me, the fun of these abstract nature images is how they can be a simple background of color, or upon closer examination, the details on a leaf — or both. Photos for Artists collections are full of images from various locations around the world, and around the neighborhood. You will find a variety of abstracts, backgrounds and foreground images in each collection. Get creative today with your own collections from the Footprints And Photos Etsy store. Take your craft projects to the next level with Photos for Artists!

Make your own footprints…

Please share how you use the images in your craft projects

My passions include art, photography, traveling and paper craft, so this has been a really fun project to pull together. I hope you enjoy using the images as much as I enjoyed creating them.

If you pick up a collection please post photos of your finished projects to Instagram and Facebook with the hashtags: #photos4artists and #footprintsandphotos. I’d love to see what you do with the photos.

Thanks and enjoy the journey!
Karin