Lichen pattern

There’s always one!

This image is primarily concerned with texture and pattern..  The pattern in the individual squares is derived from a photograph of the natural pattern of pebbles on the seashore at low tide.

Pebble pattern and texture

Abstract. ‘The Protesters’

 

 

 

 

 

 

The abstract pattern of reeds at the water’s edge suggests to me a mood of confrontation or belligerence.

 

 

Abstract 212

Seaweed pattern – look again!

This is a seaweed pattern as found on the beach  –  but what do you see?  Nothing has been added and nothing taken away  –  except the sand.  A touch of colour saturation has been applied.

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Abstract 203 ‘Wild Grasses’ (2)

Sunlight on a New Forest stream (5)

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Sunlight on a New Forest stream (4)

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Sunlight on a New Forest stream (3)

 

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Sunlight on a New Forest stream (2)

 

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 See also  Sunlight on New Forest stream (1)

Forest abstract

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Many viewers (perhaps most!) will see this picture as a representation of chaos  –  or, less politely, as ‘rubbish’!

I like it’!

The subject comprises dead leaves and grasses, with signs of new growth breaking through.  It was a small area just ahead of me as I walked through the New Forest.

But it is not the subject matter that attracts me, it is the way in which various pictorial elements  –  line, colour harmony, shape, texture, balance etc  –  combine to create a natural abstract.  The rhythms of the contrasting lines guide the eye through the ‘canvas’.  I also like the ‘feel’ of the image  –  my instinctive, non-analytical response.

The picture is ‘as taken’, except for a touch of saturation.

Poppy abstract 3

The third in the damaged poppy sequence.

 

Poppy abstract 2

The second in the damaged poppy sequence.