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Abstract Landscape Painting: Developing an Idea

By Marion Boddy-Evans, About.com

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Abstract Landscape Painting

The ‘real’ colours of the landscape are very appealing, but what about others? What about using the intense reds and yellows I’ve been using in my ‘heat’ paintings? Would this be too unrealistic, or would it still maintain a feeling of landscape?

Using the “flood fill” function in the photo manipulation program (which, basically, enables you to click on a colour in the palette, then click on the photo and it changes the area around where you click that’s all the same colour to the new one) I could very quickly create the version of the photo you see here to give me an idea of how it would work.

As you can see, using these colours would really remove the landscape from any recognisable origins as a hilly landscape.

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