There is a Simple Formula
to Follow
In a landscape painting there is almost always a river, creek, road or path and achieving the distance in that can be tricky. But there is a simple formula to follow.
Watch the video and then come back to me and we’ll talk.
Now that you’ve watched the video and seen the examples hopefully you have a better understanding of how to achieve the perspective of distance.
Let’s review: You have your horizon line and you want to add any of these, road, path, creek or river or even a sidewalk. You start at the very front of your painting and eyeball what half the distance of the width of your canvas is. That’s how wide your road, path, river or creek has to be, at a minimum. It can be wider, but really no smaller.
You can go straight back or curve back to your horizon line, but your subject will get narrower as it goes back to that horizon line. It often just vanishes at the horizon line.
We all know that the subject of a road, path, river or creek are actually the same width in reality, but to achieve the perspective of distance, you have to narrow the subject into almost vanishing at the horizon line for the viewer to interpret your painting correctly. Otherwise your painting will look flat.
I hope this makes sense and helps you on your art journey.
Thank you so much for checking in today and as always, let’s paint together real soon.