How to Learn to Paint Landscapes

Learning to paint landscapes can be difficult but I want to give you some tips! Here’s how to learn to paint landscapes. Read how to learn to paint landscapes below!

How to Learn to Paint Landscapes -Tips

Make sure you have a variety of greens
Practice mixing greens and browns
Practice painting clouds
Paint your sky from dark to light
Paint details with a detail brush
Make sure to paint highlights and shadows
Work from photographs as inspiration
Follow the landscape perspective

How to Learn to Paint Landscapes- Perspective

A landscape is divided into sections. The section closest to you is the foreground. After the foreground is the middleground and then at the back is the background.

Whatever is in the foreground is brighter and larger. Whatever is in the background is further away and is bluer because of the atmosphere perspective.

It helps to study photographs of landscapes as inspiration to really understand and take a look at the perspective and how the colours of a landscape change when comparing the foreground, middleground and background.

The best tips for how to learn to paint landscapes is to keep practicing.

The more you practice and paint the same landscape over and over the more you will learn. A lot of impressionist painters like Monet would do this. He would paint the same landscape each day and at different times of the day to notice how the landscape and the colours changed. So keep practicing!

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