1. Exploring color schemes
Landscapes
Exploring color schemes

2. Landscape painting (or landscape art) refers to an artistic genre defined by a focus on natural scenery as subject matter. Landscape paintings can depict a variety of settings, such as mountains, forests, rivers, and beaches. They often offer a wide view of the scene, and usually place some focus on the sky.

3. Looking Down Yosemite Valley – 1865
Albert Bierstadt – oil on canvas

4. Vincent van Gogh, Wheat Field with Cypresses (1889)

5. Monet, Poppy Fields near Argenteuil

6. In Class assignment: Create a landscape painting that uses a color scheme with a variety of tints, tones and shades.
Have a clearly defined color scheme (this should be written on the back of your painting, along with your name).
Use tints, tones and shades to create variety and depth in your painting.
Use atmospheric perspective to help select the placement of your values
Paint background first, then middle ground, then foreground to create DEPTH
Add dark colors SLOWLY
“30 shapes” create space and more room for color variety

7. Analogous

8. Warm
Cool

9. Note: You are not painting the colors you actually see in your image… that is reference.