Atmospheric landscape

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…

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.

Dukes Pass, Trossachs

The Tennessee River makes it way toward downtown - here it passes Island Home - the airport and other buildings are obscured by the mist rising from the water. This photo was one of 32 selected from among 160+ submitted for the Scenic Tennessee photography contest. See them all at: www.scenictennessee.org/conttest.html

Fine art photo series by Jan Erik Waider, specialized in atmospheric landscape photography of the North. All images were taken in the Jostedal valley of Norway between Gaupne and Gjerde.

ArtStation - Color and Light, Jacob Duncan

Summer landscape with misty morning, sunrise and fog on meadow