Perspective matters when painting landscapes. I recently got a book on perspective from the cultural center library and started to read about all the different kind of perspective. In fact, this painting was done earlier this year at the end of Winter in Parc Somerled looking at the tennis courts that were thawing out. I used a trick to get the perspective right on the fence and trees and walkway: I held up the painting in front of the scene and made small marks on the edge of the painting to know where the lines would cross. Notice the top left of the fence behind the trees intersects with the edge of the painting around the middle, whereas the top right of the fence intersects near the top of the painting. So the fence is on a shifting diagonal. The book recommended the same trick so I felt smart that I had already figured it out on my own! But the book has a ton of information to learn, it is by Matthew Brehm who is also a watercolour landscape painter, it is called Painting Perspective, How to See it and How to Apply it.
7 x 10" hot press (block). 2019
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