Atmosphere perspective

In this lesson we explore the effect of aerial perspective on the colors of a natural landscape and demonstrate how to use this to create atmospheric depth in a painting.

Atmospheric Perspective: Giving the appearance of distance by the use of colour and tone, quite often by making distant subjects paler, less saturated with colour and with less distinct outlines.You do not always have to fade to blue, although this is probably how it is most commonly seen. As this demonstration shows, other colours will work.In these examples no other useful devices are used give the impression of distance. There are no converging rail lines; no carefully placed people or…

Atmospheric Perspective: Objects appear lighter, cooler, and less saturated the farther away they are from the viewer.

Another shot from my trip to the Dukes Pass, near Aberfoyle , in the Trossachs... This reminded me of the swatches you get when you are trying to decide what colour to choose in the D.I.Y. shop.. lol... Please stop by and view my website and blog.... comments and feedback are most welcome.. davidmould.co.uk

In this lesson we explore the effect of aerial perspective on the colors of a natural landscape and demonstrate how to use this to create atmospheric depth in a painting.

Atmospheric perspective – also called aerial perspective – is certainly one of the most fundamental concepts in painting, especially landscape painting. Most of you are probably already […]

In this tutorial, you will learn about main types of perspectives and their characteristics, what atmospheric perspective is, and what are planes. Finally, I will step-by-step demonstrate how to use atmospheric perspective in your urban sketches to make them look livelier and more engaging.

Below is a landscape of some hills. What do you notice about the color of the hills as they get farther away? What do you notice about the value (how light or dark the hills are)? Does the value and color change? Let's talk about the color first. Why do the hills in the distance appear bluer? Are they really bluish gray? No. If you were to hike over to the hills in the distance they would be just as green as the ones in the foreground. So what is going on? Now let's talk about value. The…

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