Baroque Beauties
Baroque Beauties began as a playful experiment — rich digital portraits layered with historical textures, lush costumes, and theatrical flair. These moody muses were never meant to be literal; instead, they emerged from a love of visual storytelling and the pleasure of excess. Over time, they’ve morphed into Faux-Fiction covers — imagined book jackets for novels that don’t exist, blending beauty with a whisper of narrative. What began as ornate portraiture evolved into a new format: title, type, and image working together to suggest a plot, a mood, or a world.
All works created digitally on iPad using Procreate.
Layering your own images in Procreate
Discover a simple yet powerful way to transform your personal photos and drawings into evocative digital collages. In this Guide, Bobby Graham shows you how to build layers from your own archive — sketches, washes, painted textures, handwriting — and blend them in Procreate to create imagery that feels atmospheric, personal, and alive with memory.
Step by step, you’ll see how a single central image can open into something entirely new, enriched by colour, texture, and unexpected overlays. No borrowed scraps or vintage ephemera — just your own creative history, recombined.
This is Slow Art in action: thoughtful, expressive, and rooted in your story
Shop the Baroque Beauties
Select works from this series are available as fine art posters, notebooks, and more. Each piece is printed with care and designed to bring a little drama, humour, and beauty into your everyday life.
