Classes

One Landscape Painting class left to go.

We have been working from photographs ...mindful of their limitations.
Photos, especially those taken outside, can fail to record important subtle changes in shading....bleaching out light areas and reducing some darker shadows to black.

Photos are designed to keep everything in focus whether near or far.
One convention of aerial perspective is that objects in the distance tend to be in softer focus, with softer edges. A Painting that reproduces a photo exactly will lose that effect.

This is done from a photo of a Western or Arizona Sycamore