1. Ensuring outstanding teaching in art & design
Art academy
Ensuring outstanding teaching in art & design

2. Rolling Hills
& Mountains
Lesson 4

4. Landscapes paintings have a foreground, middle ground and background layer
This is a photograph – what do you notice about the colours of each layer of the photograph?

5. How has the artist used colour to show the different layers of the landscape?
Hawes Water by Henry Holliday (c1859)

6. Look at the photograph, notice how the hills and mountains overlap each other

7. Look how the artist has used the overlapping technique to create depth
Hawes Water by Henry Holliday (c1859)

8. Look at the photograph focusing on the trees
What do you notice about the trees? (Detail and size)

9. Look at the trees, see how the size and detail changes as they get further away
Hawes Water by Henry Holliday (c1859)

10. Recap: To be a talented landscape artist you need to be able to give a feeling of distance in your work – this is called perspective.
To achieve perspective, the artist uses the following techniques:
Colour by depth – colours in the foreground are stronger
Different layers of the landscape overlap
Objects in the landscape become smaller and less detailed the further away they are

11. Starting our basic landscape composition using layers and colour to achieve perspective.