Landscape Painting & Acrylic - Revision Sheet

1. 📌 Essentials

• Landscape painting depicts natural scenery, including sky and environment.
• Perspective techniques create the illusion of depth on a 2D surface.
• Key periods: frescoes (1600-1500 BC), religious scenes, secular landscapes (early 1500s).
• Renaissance innovations: atmospheric and linear perspective.
• Six methods to simulate space: overlap, shading, placement, size, atmospheric pressure, linear perspective- Classical landscape emphasizes careful object positioning.
• Plein air painting captures outdoor impressions directly from nature.
• Color theory: hue, value, saturation; primary, secondary, tertiary colors.
• Warm colors (red, orange, yellow) advance; cool colors (blue, green, purple) recede.
• Art categories: landscape most respected; still life and portrait less so.

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