Leah abstract landscape

Here is Leah's abstracted landscape. I really like the direction Leah is going with her abstract pieces.

Here is Leah's beautiful sunset photo.

1.These shapes might be a little sharp. These are action shapes relative to the more organic shapes in the rest of the painting.

2. Look out for tangents. The end of the tree shape ends at the edge of the yellow cloud shape. This flattens the picture plane. If that's Leah's intention, she would be in good company with Picasso and Braque. Just a note to be aware of the tangents.

3. I feel that these shapes may be a little complex. I might consider having areas of relatively simple shapes to offset the busier ones.

4. I might consider gradating the sky a little more from the warm lower section to up to the top behind the clouds.

Notice the linear quality of clouds. The warm up-lit cloud shapes are long and connected. The darker, rounder parts of the clouds, as pointed out in previous posts, are still lighter than the dark shapes of the objects on the ground plane.

1. Indicates the gradated sky.

2. Maybe a little more attention to the shapes of the mountains and distinctions in value between the cool near ground plane and middle ground hills.

3. These shapes could be broken down further for nuance but look for the big shapes first.

4. Maybe consider some slightly more organic shapes for the foreground tree branches.

Overall, I'd say that Leah is really on to something. I don't want my suggestions to be a distraction to her direction but to support er efforts.