Find out what aerial (or atmospheric) perspective is and how to use it to create the illusion of depth in your own paintings. Be sure to stick around until the end to learn one simple trick to elevate your atmospheric perspective to the next level!
The main component of atmospheric perspective is the scattering of light through molecules and particles in the air. Examples are smoke, water vapor, or fog.
If you master three simple principles you can add depth to your landscape paintings and create an illusion of scale, vastness, and distance that will make people go “WOW”
The farther away things are, the fewer details our eyes can see. A simple example: while you might paint individual leaves on a tree in your painting’s foreground you might paint whole trees
The value of color describes how dark or light is. Objects of lower value are darker, objects of higher value are lighter. This means that black is the lowest and white the highest value color.
As objects recede into the distance the light traveling from them to the eyes of the viewers is shifted to color hues and they lose saturation. This means that things appear less intense and more blueish the farther away they are from the viewer.
To Discover the Aerial Perspective – How To Create Depth In Your Paintings