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Easy Landscape Painting IDEAS

Simple Landscape Painting Step by Step

Step-by-step tutorial of how to paint a simple and contemporary landscape with acrylic paint.

I have painted mine on a 12″ x 12″ stretched canvas.

The use of complementary colors and simplified shapes makes this painting energetic and modern.

How to Paint an Abstract Landscape with Acrylics

Want to paint a landscape? An easy way to go is to paint horizontal bands of color: the viewer’s brain will read them as a landscape, guaranteed.

Try several thumbnail drawings with horizontal shapes of different values, you’ll see how they all read as landscapes.

Start Your Painting on a Tinted Canvas

It is much easier to start painting on a tinted canvas. You can paint your canvas of any color that will complement your color scheme.

I used a canvas that I had painted with the colors left on my palette at the end of another painting session, and it worked out fine for this project.

Some unevenness in the background paint is fine, it will add some texture to the painting.

Many times it is hard for novice artists to come up with ideas on things to paint.

A white canvas can be quite intimidating, and the fear to ruin a painting or waste supplies can be so strong that no idea sounds good enough to actually attempt it.

Where to Place the Horizon Line

I love to follow the Rule of Thirds, when in doubt of where to place things in my paintings the rule of thirds always can help me decide.

The horizon line is going to be your focal point, so you want to place it on one of the lines dividing the canvas into thirds. Avoid placing the horizon exactly in the middle, it makes difficult to create an interesting composition.

Paint a dark line at the 1/3 line. I picked the lower third, but you could use the upper third as well.

In my landscape I used complementary colors, to create a contemporary and abstract feeling.

Complementary Colors Make Each Other Pop

Once you have your horizon in, start painting the two big masses of “ground” and “sky”, I used complementary colors in the families of blue and orange.

The neat thing about using complementary colors is that they make each other pop, a color seems brighter when placed near its complement.

For the ground I used Burnt Sienna, Raw Sienna, Hansa Yellow Light, Naphtol Red Medium, and Titanium White. For the sky I used Ultramarine Blue, Cerulean Blue, and Titanium White.

The darker blue areas are obtained mixing Ultramarine Blue with Burnt Sienna.

Abstract landscape – For the ground I used Burnt Sienna, Raw Sienna, Hansa Yellow Light, Naphtol Red Medium, and Titanium White. For the sky I used Ultramarine Blue, Cerulean Blue, and Titanium White. | Source

 

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