PROJECT FIVEDISTANCE & DIMENSION

The wide-open scenery of the high valleys and meadows with a curtain backdrop of mountains lend a sense of great dimension and space. In this scene, you can see many different levels of distance.

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A: Position the focal point, the evergreen tree, left of center.

Apply a light wash of cadmium red light over the white gesso of a 20" × 16" canvas. Sketch using a #5 flat bristle brush with thinned dioxazine purple blended with ultramarine blue. Establish the ridgeline of the mountains, and position the distant mountains ...

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