Mastering AP by Richard Robinson
Welcome to Teal Bay Northland, New Zealand, where you will learn about atmospheric perspective in landscape painting. Join Richard Robinson as he takes you through this lesson in the perfect place to do it. With Richard's guidance, you will understand how to make your paintings look soft and full of light, even with faraway objects like hills that may appear blue, not green.
Richard will teach you how atmospheric particles make distant objects look lighter, and how to imagine dozens of veils of atmosphere, tinting and lightening the landscape behind it. You will also learn how to judge value relationships, a key skill for any good painter, and how to use a value chart to train yourself to see values better.
Richard's methodical approach will help you understand that receding objects take on more and more of the atmospheric color, which you can apply to your color mixing. By adding atmospheric color to the colors of the first hill, you can create the colors of the next hill and so on, to create a beautiful, harmonious painting.
With a simple palette of ultramarine blue, cadmium red medium, cadmium orange, cadmium yellow medium, and titanium white, you will learn to mix the perfect atmospheric color, and understand how to make your painting come alive with light and color. So join Richard Robinson and learn the key to landscape painting in this comprehensive lesson on atmospheric perspective.
In this lesson we will learn:
- How to understand atmospheric perspective in landscape painting
- How to make distant hills seem far away in your painting
- How to create a soft, illuminated effect in your landscape painting
- How to imagine atmospheric particles filing away into the distance to create perspective
- How to judge value relationships in your painting
- How to use blurred vision to simplify a scene for painting
- How to train yourself to see values better with a value chart
- How to mix colors to achieve atmospheric color
- How to apply the concept of atmospheric perspective to color mixing
- How to use a simple palette for color harmony in landscape painting.