I never had formal training in painting and my style has always been very realistic, slow and not at all artistic, just a copy of a photograph. When I got word of the course available through Virtual Art Academy, I was very excited for the opportunity to learn what I never knew about painting. VAA… Read more “An excellent foundation on so many aspects of painting”
Background Painting
Stone Sword Background
Hike
The blue witch and the pumpkin ghost
Puddle Jumpers
A Good Man – Venice Beach
Juice Jam background – Universal Studio
Flying Piranha
Viper Hotel
Sleep-It-Off Motel
Color Script Painting
Background Painting – Late nights
Mountains United
“Gujo City” Japan Background artwork
Guidance
Under the sea
Blue Sky Falling Star
Home #1
#059 Background pattern
Tokyo Tower — Sailor Moon
Rock Eaters
Reflection
Pirate’s Landing
Raining Lights
Roadtrip
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The Three Main Effects Of Atmospheric Perspective
As the distance between you and an object increases:
- The contrast between the object and its background decreases, and the contrast of the details within the object also decreases. Usually the value of the object will become lighter.
- The colors of the object become less saturated and more gray.
- The colors of the object shift around the color wheel towards the background color, which is usually cooler and more blue.
Changes In Saturation Due To Atmospheric Perspective
In this painting of a street in Venice, you can see how I used grayer colors to depict the distant buildings, compared with the much more saturated colors I used in the foreground figures.
These figures in the foreground are painted with vivid high saturation colors. These reds and violets are used straight from the tube with very little mixing.
The buildings in the distance are painted using low saturation grays. The effect of moisture in the atmosphere has caused these buildings to appear grayer. You can compare these grays with the more saturated browns used in the buildings in the street.
Changes In Value Due To Atmospheric Perspective
The second effect of atmospheric perspective is on the value of objects. The value of objects further away gets closer to the value of the sky at the horizon. This means that during daylight, the values of objects will get lighter the further away they are. In a nocturne, objects further away will get darker, and closer to the value of the dark night sky.
In the foreground you see darker values and there is a greater contrast between the light and dark shapes.
In the distance the darks become lighter and there is less contrast between the lights and darks.
