Home page & navigation system sketch

I'm trying different backgrounds for the home page but I'm still not sure what the tabs should be or the navigation system. I'm doing a homepage for an artist portfolio so it would nice to use one of the artworks of the artist.

E-Card: Return of victory gardens

I tried to not write as much in the E-card. I feel the images should say more than the words. Since I was doing about Victory gardens, I wanted the colors to be vivid and warm hues to give that feelings of spring and summer coming soon. I think I achieved that with the colors. I used lighting effects to emphasize the focus of the image, especially for the tomato. I also used blending for the inside to blend the different graphics.

E-Card sketches

Still trying out different ideas. I'm still not sure which direction to go towards. But I have different ideas for each.

Art Tatum- Book Cover

I think simplicity makes a bigger impact when it comes to biographies. I didn't want to use to many colors, more pastels and light hues. The images are sepia or black and white. Also, I wanted to use camera focus in order to blur the some of the image and focus on the main subject.