Landscape painting composition

The Artist’s Magazine January/February issue 2015 had an article on landscape composition, but it was these thumbnail sketches that illustrate the concepts which I found to be the most helpfu…

In this blog post I am going to show you how you can create atmospheric perspective in a landscape painting as I show you how to paint this mountain valley scene.What is Atmospheric Perspective?Simply put, using atmospheric perspective is a way of creating the illusion of distance and depth in a landscape painting, for example making distant hills and mountains look like they are far away.

Downloadable PDF page about how to do great compositions for landscapes. Instructional file in PDF.

School of Realist Art on Instagram: "Why learn atmospheric perspective if you're not really into landscape painting? Because these principles can help you show distance in any kind of painting. First let's take a look at the painting of the hills: Up close the greens are earthy (meaning there's a bit of red in those mixtures) and there's a lot of contrast between the light and the shadow. In the middle ground, the green becomes more of a bluish green, the shadows get a little lighter, and…

Tried to push the warmth in this painting. I really want to work more on shape design, I'm kinda tired of drawing the proportions identical to the reference. I've been focused on colour for so long I forgot that it was something I could do. #digitalpainting #rebelle7 #digitalart #painting #landscapepainting #landscape #treepainting #autumn #summerpainting #artist #landscapeart #art #nature #southdowns

Since the day the late Brock Linehan asked me "What do you know for sure?", and I had trouble answering.

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