#postercolorpainting

It is essential for a composition to create a composition with the right amount of lightness and darkness. As an artist you need to know what parts of the elements of your landscape painting should have more light. Even if there will be a certain disagreement between the lights and darks, you will sense it. Hence, we give you an instance how the light would be in different major elements of your painting during the daytime.

Sky- It has the maximum amount of light and thus it should be presented in the lightest shape.

• Horizontal- Any flat surface in the composition should also be light as it reflects the light falling from the sky completely.

• Slanted and Diagonal- Slopes and roofs should be a little darker.

• Upright-The completely vertical elements should be shown the darkest. For example- The tree trunks.

It isn’t necessary to include everything that you see in your landscape painting. Decide the focal point, size of the canvas and the elements that you are going to include and exclude.  The tip here would be to eliminate small unnecessary things like street signboards or buildings. Just try to make it less cluttered.

Many times a landscape is very beauteous but is so busy that making all of it will make the painting look really busy. The easiest way to simplify your landscape is to group shapes and eliminate some objects. Bushes and trees that look a bit wrongly placed can be moved or removed.

Just like every color has various hues, nature is full of various hues of green. So, keep making the green color lighter and darker by mixing the color of the sunlight in your landscape painting. Learn to vary the greens in color. Mix some red to make them a bit dull. You can even use gray in place of green for far-off trees.