Landscape Within a Landscape

I have being painting landscapes for a while now and when I use water spray bottles and palette knives, interesting details begin to emerge from the paint. I have often thought that these details look like landscapes of their own. For the painting module that I take at university, we are required to have two sets of paintings; one of which will be exhibited and the other as a "suite" set which will be assessed. I thought I could use the idea of finding landscapes within my larger landscape paintings for the suite set. And so I decided that I would find interesting details in my work and paint them onto board. I am using square boards for these paintings because I do want them to be a more abstract style than the rest of my paintings and a square format won't read as a landscape as clearly as if I used a regular rectangular shape. I have been verging on abstraction in many of my paintings so I want to take it a step further. I began this process by cutting three different sized squares into a piece of card which I could then use as a viewfinder with varying size frames. I then positioned the viewfinder on my large snowy landscape painting and found lots of small areas which could read as an abstract landscape. I am going to find several details in each large painting I do so that I can have around sixteen abstract paintings which I can then edit down to the best eight (two for each large landscape painting). I have included pictures below of some of the landscapes I found in my snowy painting.