Richard Robinson | Runtime (21 min)
In this art workshop tutorial, your painting challenge will be on how to paint a mountain meadow landscape, with a focus on creating atmospheric perspective. You’ll start with a lesson on how to create a strong composition with “notan sketches” and value studies. Then watch as Richard reviews student paintings, giving tips on how to improve their artwork. You’ll then follow along as Richard paints the landscape from start to finish, beginning with a review of shape, value and design, and carrying through the important stages such as color mixing, adjusting edges, developing lights and darks, and more, for a warm mountain landscape painting.
- Learn about the importance of value
- Painting tips to capture atmospheric perspective
- Oil painting techniques for transparent & opaque layers of paint
- Paint landscape elements including trees, mountains, grasses and water
Preview Painting Landscapes: Atmospheric Perspective here now for painting tips on achieving atmospheric perspective in the background of your landscape painting.
Painting Landscapes Part 2: Atmospheric Perspective
MATERIALS:
Surface
- Canvas board (triple acrylic primed front and back)
Oil Paint
- Titanium White
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Yellow Ochre
- Cadmium Orange
- Cadmium Red Medium
- Burnt Sienna
- Ultramarine Blue
- Cobalt Blue
- Alizarin Crimson
- Grays (for value studies: light, mid light, mid dark and dark)
- Black (for notan studies)
Bristle Brushes
- Flats, brights & filberts in a range of sizes
Other
- Odorless mineral spirits
- M. Graham Walnut Alkyd Medium (to thin the paint)
- Two containers for the mineral spirits
- Palette
- Palette/painting knives
- Apron
- Paper towels
- Disposable latex gloves (optional)
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Painting Lesson: Notan
Painting Lesson: Spotlight Effect
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