Painting perspective landscape

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.

Perspective is more than the way a road appears to get smaller as it recedes into the distance - learn more in this guest blog post from Michael Holter.

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…

Improving Landscape Composition with Perspective Cues and Land- or Sky-Dominant Cropping

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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 […]

Watercolor landscape park path fall

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