Article · Christie Scheele (blog)
Approaches to Abstracting a Landscape Painting
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2016
About this lesson
An abstract landscape painter critiques more than a dozen paintings to show two routes to abstraction: choosing views that are already abstract, and simplifying, flattening, changing colour and unifying the surface. Explains how each painting balances surface pattern against depth.
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