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