Watercolor Landscape

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This is a watercolor landscape painting of a snow covered mountain range and the surrounding landscape, which includes the cloudy sky and the dirt ground. It is high on the representational part of the representational-abstract spectrum as it just a landscape. Form played a big part in the artwork; different shades of blue are layered on top of each other to create the illusion for the mountains in the distance. The brown on top of the blue is to bring forth the snow mountain valley, making it seem closer to the viewer. The use of dominance is clear in the painting as the brown plateau stands out from the blue and white background. There is movement present in the clouds created by the turbulent blobs of blue that are the clouds. It is the

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