Landscape Painting: How Transparency and Opacity Affect the Spatial Illusion
The paint itself — its transparency, opacity and texture — also play a role.
Browsing: Landscape Theory
Lessons in Landscape Composition from Stonehenge
See how variation in shape size and intervals takes a static subject and makes it more active.
Tondo: The Circular Format in Abstract Landscape Painting
The Tondo is a distinctinve format that operates differently than traditional rectangular formats.
“Tactile Perspective” in Landscape Painting: Using Paint Texture to Help Suggest Depth
Atmospheric and linear perspective aren’t the types of artistic perspective. Tactile perspective can can also add depth to your work.
How to Re-Compose a Landscape Painting with a Limited Focus or Cropping
Three examples from Mitchell’s collection demonstrate how an additional limited focus in the later stages can save a composition.
Creating Light and Atmosphere in Landscape Painting with the Sunlight & Snow Series
How do painters manipulate color, value and edges to suggest light and atmosphere?
“Landscape Painter’s Workbook” Preview: Color Strategies with Carol Strock Wasson and David Mensing
Two masters of color are highlighted in the third of a 3-part series previewing artists in “The Landscape Painter Workbook.”
“The Landscape Painter’s Workbook” Excerpt: Active Negative Space in Landscape Painting
A look at how to activate skies with closed negative space, and color and tonal variation.
Book Excerpt: Simplification and Massing in Landscape Painting
An excerpt from Mitchell’s best-selling “Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice.”
The Colors of Night: Color Strategies for Painting Landscape Nocturnes
With works by Albala, Cramer, Doerflinger, Remington, and Whistler, learn how painters modulate color to make their nocturnes sing.