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Friday, November 9, 2012

abstract landscapes

When I saw Bonnie’s PhotoArt Friday prompt for this week was lines I immediately knew which photos I would use.  On my regular walks by the sea I am captivated by the stripes of sand, sea and sky which often form very abstract looking stripes in shades of grey / grunge.  It was these photos that I turned to – interpreting lines as stripes of colour.

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In all of the photos I used Bonnies velum texture and played with the blending modes – the ones above and below are linear burn and the last is overlay.

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I love each by itself but I also thought they would look really good as a collection.  So I rotated them all to emphasise the stripes rather than horizon and grouped them

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I think this is one I’ll print up large.

Looking forward to what others do with the idea of lines.

18 comments:

  1. They are wonderfully striking! Gallery worthy, I think :)

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  2. Just beautiful. Put a sail boat or two in there and they look like oil paintings.

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  3. love the texture you used! it looks fantastic, like canvas!

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  4. Great horizontal lines. Seashore shots are great for this.

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  5. LOVE these Helena - really, the colours and the shots you have chosen to accentuate the texture is just fabulous!

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  6. These are wonderful. That vellum texture worked perfectly with your photos. My favorite one is the 1st one with the boat in the shot. I also really like the last one. How clever to put them into a collage and rotate them.

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  7. I love what you have done here,- Bonnies vellum texture is perfect! Fantastic abstract, landscape pieces! And the flipped versions,- brilliant!
    Monica:)

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  8. Absolutely wonderful Helena. They look fabulous together as a set.

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  9. How creative! When you rotate them they look like pieces of striped cloth. Just love the editing choices you made in the first two - gorgeous pieces of photo art!!

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  10. I was scrolling down, thinking how lovely they were individually but also that they'd look great together, and then that's exactly what you did :) Fabulous!

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  11. These are so cool! Rotating them is a brilliant idea.
    Rinda

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  12. These are beautiful works of art - so creative. You really have captured the design around you on your walks on the beach.

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  13. So pretty! And I love your combo piece at the end.

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  14. beautiful! I like all 3 of them. Your group is amazing.
    LG joelsuma

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