The British landscape artist John Virtue works solely in black and white (he uses acrylic white, shellac and black ink on canvas). So I tried a version in just black and white (again using the “flood fill” function, rather than the greyscale conversion which wouldn’t give me the strong contrasts).
Again, this photo manipulation was done very quickly, in a couple of minutes. It’s just to give me a feeling of how the idea might turn out; I’m not trying to create a piece of digital art.
It makes me feel that a black-and-white version could have potential; it conjures up images of snow, which lead to me visualising the sky that intense blue you get on a sunny day after a snowfall, with bits of green sneaking through the white in places. Dark moss on the dry-stone wall which would be abstracted to a dark brown with bits of dark green. Which is now the fourth idea from one photo. I know from experience that I can continue to develop the idea, but what I need to do is to get painting on a canvas and work on these, to get familiar with the subject and shapes, leaving the investigation of the possibilities of taking it a step further for a later date.
