AERIAL PERSPECTIVE
Link to internet site: Painted Prism to do this exercise
YouTube link to Jean Lurssen's: Watercolour Theory Aerial Perspective
A short demonstration on creating depth in your watercolors using aerial or atmospheric perspective.
A short demonstration on creating depth in your watercolors using aerial or atmospheric perspective.
YouTube link to Karen Rice's: How to Paint DEPTH & DISTANCE in Watercolour landscapes. (12 mins)
Aerial perspective, also called atmospheric perspective is a method of creating the illusion of depth, or recession, in a painting or drawing by modulating colour to simulate changes effected by the atmosphere on the colours of things seen at a distance.
Leonardo da Vinci first used the term aerial perspective in his Treatise on Painting, in which he wrote: “Colours become weaker in proportion to their distance from the person who is looking at them.”
It was later discovered that the presence in the atmosphere of moisture and of tiny particles of dust and similar material causes a scattering of light as it passes through them.
Leonardo da Vinci first used the term aerial perspective in his Treatise on Painting, in which he wrote: “Colours become weaker in proportion to their distance from the person who is looking at them.”
It was later discovered that the presence in the atmosphere of moisture and of tiny particles of dust and similar material causes a scattering of light as it passes through them.
https://www.artistsnetwork.com/art-mediums/pastel/what-is-aerial-perspective/
Because light of short wavelength—blue light—is scattered most, the colours of all distant dark objects tend toward blue; for example, distant mountains have a bluish cast.
Light of long wavelength—red light—is scattered least; thus, distant bright objects appear redder because some of the blue is scattered and lost from the light by which they are seen.
Because light of short wavelength—blue light—is scattered most, the colours of all distant dark objects tend toward blue; for example, distant mountains have a bluish cast.
Light of long wavelength—red light—is scattered least; thus, distant bright objects appear redder because some of the blue is scattered and lost from the light by which they are seen.