Creating Depth within a Landscape
I just created a process slideshow for "Beyond Music Pass" on my facebook page here. Going through the slides, I realized this was more of a technical painting in the sense I was concentrating on creating the correct layers of value shapes and color intensity to focus on establishing aerial perspective.
I started with more of a base drawing then I would usually employ because drawings can tend to make one "color within the lines" so to speak. These sort of approaches tend to make me work a little tighter which is not really my thing. I usually like to start with loose washes and line work and then eventually work my way to some detail.
Also, since I was trying to gain some insight into creating aerial perspective, it helped to have the shapes pre-defined so I could focus on creating the right value and color intensity for each "plane" receding back into the painting.
When working on aerial perspective, I find it is necessary to establish your darks and then your lights so you can work in-between. Some people start working form top and background part of painting to down and forward. I am not comfortable with this because if you get any of your "lighter" background shapes too dark in value (very easy to do) then things can be a mess by the time you reach the dark and more forward parts of the painting.
There is no "right" way of working on creating a sense of aerial perspective or depth within a painting so it is really up to the artist to find an approach that works best for them. I have a couple of similar scenes I would like to paint so it will be interesting to see if I continue the approach in the same way I have in this piece.
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