How to creat landscape paintings

June 20, 2011 - PRLog -- If you love landscape paintings, you find true inspiration in a beautiful landscape canvas oil paintings!

There's something about a breathtaking landscape that motivates the painters in all of us to capture its essence on canvas. For me, I always want to create a canvas art that reflects my emotion, and future viewers of the oil painting to feel the same feelings.

The following ideas will help everyone create some beautiful art works.

Use Your Imagination.

It's possible to rearrange the elements in the landscape, if you think it'll have a better composition. Another choice is to borrow elements from different landscapes and put them together in one work.

It's OK To Leave Some Elements Out.

No one is forcing you to include everything that you see in the landscape painting. You should include the elements that are important, and that characterize this particular landscape. And you should absolutely use the landscape as a reference, but you can also insert your own personality, temperament, and/or tastes in the oil painting. After all, It's your work of art. You should paint it anyway you wish!

It's Not Cheating to Buy Green Paints

There is this notion in the art world that a true painter has to mix their own greens. It's permissible to buy green paints in a tube. One of the main benefits of doing so is that you'll have immediately access to particular greens. Go ahead and extend the range of 'ready-made' greens as your inspiration leads you. When mixing a green, bear in mind that green has either a blue or a yellow bias as the starting point. Moreover, remember that the shade of green in a landscape painting will change according to the time of day. In fact, a bluish green hue in the morning may well be a yellowish green by dinner time.

Each different blue/yellow combination will give a different green, plus the variations from the proportions of each you mix. With practice it becomes instinctive to mix the shade of green you're after.

The Foreground Is Top Priority

Make sure not to paint the entire landscape with the same degree of detail. It's important to paint less detail in the background than you do in the foreground. It's less important there and gives more 'authority' to the foreground. The difference in detail also helps draw the viewer's eye into the main focus of the landscape painting.

Landscape paintings are perfect for home decor and very popular in oil paintings for sale online. If you follow the guidelines above, you will sure to creat better landscape art.

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