I'm using a bitmap API with Java in an effort to make a Mondrian-esque painting.
This is my result:
This is what i want to achive:
How can I try to make the image I generated more like a Mondrian painting? I imagine an overlay and off colors would help? Is there anything else?
The black lines should have some variation in thickness. Eliminate the line around the outside as it breaks the flow of the grid outside the frame, which Mondrian was playing with. Notice that in the painting each colored block could go on outside the frame and we are only seeing a cropped piece of something larger or perhaps infinite. pay close attention to the range of sizes of blocks and how the sizes are distributed. This fine tuning could make a big difference in achieving the "look" of Mondrian.
Try using something like:
#e7eccc (R: 231, G: 236, B: 204) instead of white,
#8c1f00 (R: 140, G: 31, B: 0) instead of red,
#0c183e (R: 12, G: 24, B: 62) instead of blue,
#d29b00 (R: 210, G: 155, B: 0) instead of yellow,
#11120c (R: 17, G: 18, B: 12) instead of black
If it still doesn't feel right, try randomly filling the rectangles with dots slightly darker then the color, creating some noise, or apply a pattern, previously created in Photoshop or even Paint instead of the color fill.
I don't know the possibilities of the bitmap API, but if you can use layers, then I would apply some transparent layers with some semi-transparent grey slightly artistic brush strokes, but it involves using Photoshop.
