2 Commonly Overlooked Errors in Landscape Painting

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I'll talk about and analyze two very common representational errors I see in landscape art, particularly with beginners and artists new to landscape.
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@ellenbielut3630 3 года назад

This is THE lesson I didn't know I needed. You can't possibly guess how grateful I am in this moment.

@bernicekemp953 4 года назад

Thank you very much ... I say this for both my wife and I ... We are grateful for you help!!

@pjlewisful 4 года назад

You pointed out the important stuff that folks don't seem to realize. You're helping them to learn to really see.

@tinakoyama8258 7 месяцев назад

I think every book or article I have read on perspective has used buildings and other urban elements to explain perspective concepts. (This might be my own bias, since I am mostly an urban sketcher, not a landscape sketcher.) This is the most complete explanation of perspective in a natural environment that I've ever seen! And much needed! Thank you so much! And I can see why so many landscape painters make these mistakes... I've heard people say they don't do urban scenes because they "can't do perspective"... sorry, dude, but perspective is everywhere! 😆

@snooapples 3 года назад

I found your channel just a little while ago... I'm so thankful I did! You talk about watercolor so much different than anyone else I've found on RU-vid. The way you talk about the techniques and explain things like this just makes sense to me! Thank you so much!

@thejoydecision724 4 года назад

Perspective is so boring to try to learn when there are other much more engaging topics in art. I’m so glad we got a Steve perspective lesson. Much more lively, succinct and interesting!

@hannahcrumley3103 4 года назад

I have sat in a class room many times for this subject and have never heard it explained like this! Thank you!

@mssmiley5691 4 года назад

That was great, Steve! Good lesson, good reminders. I would love to see you address how to simplify landscapes. What to leave out, what to leave in, what to change or modify. So many landscape reference photos are so “busy”, and my brain wants to paint everything it sees!

@shawnariley3518 4 года назад

I do the same thing always if I don’t I feel like I left it to simple

@simosimo7560 4 года назад

I agree, I need the same lesson too, but in general I think that you can add details in the foreground of a landscape or where you want that the eyes of the observer go. For example, I painted some portraits of animals: eyes are always well detailed, because you look the eyes at first.

@LauradB65 4 года назад

I do agree , I’d really appreciate a lesson on how to simplify landscapes.

@plants53 3 года назад

I agree too. I never know what to leave out and want to keep everything in lol

@JohnFishman 4 года назад

I especially love what you said about approaching drawing with a sense of curiosity and awareness. Lesson for life as well as art. That’s why I always click on a new MoW video as soon as I see one has come out.

@jennyd9543 4 года назад

I have been attempting some landscapes and this was super helpful especially the eye-line and the perspective of the clouds. Thanks a million.

@johndeyloff4473 4 года назад

Thanks so much for your insights into landscape perspective! I now know why I always seem to end up with scenes that I sketch as if I’m viewing from above! Also the perspective lines for clouds was an eye opener! GREAT!

@RockinRavenVA 4 года назад

The sky plane concept is so mind-blowing and yet so crucial for a believable painting.Wonderful lesson, Steve!

@kathsoulsby873 4 года назад

Thanks Steve..this was the best video I have seen that demonstrates these points so well. I finally understand that part of perspective now!

@curlygramma 4 года назад

Thank you so much! So helpful and clear. This is something I’ve really been struggling to understand. Your grid lines really helped, and drawing the scale as a subject is closer or farther away finally makes sense to me. Thank you!!

@peaches5712 4 года назад

I really enjoy coming to school with you teaching! I learn so much when I watch your videos, some I knew, some I had forgotten. They never fail to teach and continue to inspire me! Thank you for all you do in doing so!

@spoedreeks 4 года назад

this was such a big help, a great reminder to take when we are painting....indeed, i dan make some of the mistakes too....When you teach it, it isn t a boring thing...love these videos!!!

@VictorianStudio 4 года назад

Thank you so much! I appreciate all your instruction and how clear you are in delivering it. Enjoy your videos so much and they are so helpful. I concentrated on the land perspective, but really didn't think about how I should also think more about the same in the sky! Thanks again!

@merylehawkins5177 4 года назад

Thank you for this very helpful video. You impart your extensive knowledge with such generosity. I love your videos

@pattycyr8662 4 года назад

Thanks for explaining so clearly. I'm glad you mentioned the clouds regarding how close or far away they are since I had not thought of that before.

@karenowens9717 4 года назад

Great information and so much I didn’t know. I’ve been wanting to paint landscapes from my photos and had no idea where to start. Now I do thanks to you. Let’s just hope I took good photos. I would love more videos like this one. Thanks

@mrspock2al 4 года назад

Steve, I really enjoyed this video. Your examples were very effective and clearly demonstrated your points on perspective. I think I already knew much of this, but it's easy to forget it when concentrating and getting caught up in the painting process.

@soniazawacki5459 4 года назад

Once again, you’re such a great teacher! Thank you for the gems you pass on to me, a beginner (and watercolor wanna be!) So grateful...

@sallywright5503 4 года назад

I’ll admit it,,, I got the horizon line wrong almost every time, and I thought I was doing fairly well with horizon lines. I’ll continue to think about all of this in the future. I found the whole video informative and very helpful. Thank you for sharing with those of us who are beginners.

@stacyhannon4081 4 года назад

This was an eye opener for me Steve, Thank you! I finally get it. Going. To practice now. Many thanks! Much Love and Respect as Always, Stacy

@LeeAnnM 4 года назад

You really have a gift for explaining complex issues in a simple manner. Thanks!

@aaronbowen6510 4 года назад

This was an extremely helpful video. It brought together different aspects I was aware of but, not exactly sure how to combine together. I can't wait to play around with this information.

@DenaTollefson 4 года назад

Hi Steve! What an excellent video- I have been painting for decades and your advice is valuable to keep going back to the basics. Excellent reminders about keeping details and scale in mind when painting. You explain things so well and have such a supportive and encouraging attitude. Super helpful!

@brendacookiebreton4481 3 года назад

Very helpful. You were certainly helping understand these two mistakes that I now realize I make. Love the grid.

@simplelife9020 4 года назад

I am so happy you made this lesson! I have just started studying perspective and this helped so much. I watched other videos discussing these elements and it was a bit overwhelming, but your lesson made a lot of sense. I was going to ask if you would make a vid discussing perspective as I always understand your lessons better than others. Thanks again :)

@nanschifris8734 4 года назад

Wow! Wow! Wow! This is one of the best tutorials I’ve ever watched. I believe I’ll be seeing things differently now & I know my sketching & painting will grow as a result. Thank you, Steve!

@riefler0220 4 года назад

I am very new to art, and watercolor, when you had the grid lines and drew in the bushes between those lines and the got bigger, i actually said aloud...oh it was an ah ha moment thanks for opening my perspective eyes! Love your channel!

@janey2562 3 года назад

I am learning so much from you. This is really new. This is real teaching.

@barblair 3 года назад

Thanks, Steve! I know some of this, but you clarified and increased my understanding.

@yunzers 4 года назад

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise. You are a wonderful teacher. I’m grateful to have found your Chanel.

@jcbrown9810 4 года назад

Great reminders....thank you for your consistently great videos.

@joancioffi8387 4 года назад

Thank you, it was so helpful. I am a beginner so I learned a lot. You had me running of to my paintings to check on them. Can't wait to use this information.

@ellaacuarela 4 года назад

What a great lesson! Thank you so much for takimg the time to explain these very important concepts. I also loved how you used technology to malke it clear and easier to understand.

@rebanelson607 3 года назад

This has been most helpful- I'm making all of those mistakes! Thanks for the education. I've been following your recommendation in a previous video and painting small landscapes with distinct fore, mid and backgrounds. You are a good teacher!

@chrissyc4502 4 года назад

When you showed the clouds over head that was bigger up top it really made me understand so much more thank you

@robincooper9323 4 года назад

Thank you for this tutorial. I didn't know anything about perspective, but now I know a little. It's really a hard subject to learn about because I often times don't see what the person teaching says they are seeing. I look forward to whatever lessons you are planning for us.

@kookatsoonjan 4 года назад

I loved the parallel lines heading from the horizon line to the land and the sky...now I see why the clouds overhead ...if we look above our heads, are much bigger than the ones we see on the horizon...huge helpful impact Steve...thank you so much...Janis

@kimgalea6529 4 года назад

Thank you Steve, you have given me new and great information!! I have never heard or read any like this. As you said, I thought that the horizon should be where the sky meets the land. It’s wonderful to listen to you, I have actually watched this a few times, but even though I’m watching and listening, I would love if you could paint a few different painting’s actually showing us how to do this. I hope there are others out there that would love to see you do this as well. Thank you again 😊

@wizkidsvideos 4 года назад

Excellent lesson and loved your explanation. I’ve been avoiding landscape drawings lately specifically because of my problems with scale and perspective/plan.

@cherylj.harris4967 3 года назад

Wow, so helpful! Thank you. I'm going to analyse my own paintings with all of this in mind to show myself how to make these improvements and then maybe even repaint them for comparison.

@claychick100 3 года назад

This was a great lesson. I have never had anyone explain this in such clear detail. Thanks so much Steve. You are a gifted teacher and an incredible artist.

@jerikuhn6101 4 года назад

Very helpful Steve. Thank you so much!! You are appreciated.

@georginakaulback6572 4 года назад

This has been a great help, Thank you so much, you are a great a wonderful teacher and artist!

@judybreedlove5348 4 года назад

Excellent tutorial on perspective. Thank you, Steve.

@corihederich4817 4 года назад

Great lesson and wonderful advice!! Really appreciate you sharing 😃😃

@JC-il4or 4 года назад

Thank you so very much!! You clarified and simplified horizon line for me. No small feat, after decades of assumptive instruction that "its where the land meets the sky", the edge of the earth....etc. You untied a knot in my thinking/drawing!!! Most freeing. Thank you.👍👍👍👍👍

@helenschaefer1167 4 года назад

Excellent video on landscape painting using the proper scale. It's very important in order to make sense out of the work. thanks so much, I found this to be very helpful.

@1114shit 3 года назад

What a masterclass! Wow!!! Thank you and congrats for the wonderful job always ❤️

@catalinaballesteros8653 3 года назад

Thank you so much for this lesson in scale. It's not so technical that I couldn't understand it, it made a lot of sense. Godspeed!

@GeorgeBanis 3 года назад

Mindblown! 🤯 Can't wait to use this analysis next time I paint!

@TreasureMapsGenealogy 4 года назад

GREAT LESSON! I really love this kind of instruction, Steve. Thanks!

@lori7168 4 года назад

Hi Steve! This was very helpful. Now I understand why I couldn't get one of my landscapes to look right. I'm going to try it again! Love your lessons,

@lusitaniaaquarelala884 4 года назад

Excellent, very easy to follow , it will give beginners a very level grounding of these very important composition elements.

@wulfseig1864 4 года назад

Great video! Great summary of perspective and scale. In 1999 I received my associate's degree in Architecture and there was a class on Architectural Drawing. In that year long class they taught how to draw with scale and perspective. It wasn't just buildings either. We drew everything but in scale and size. I would highly recommend for anyone to take a class on this subject. The book we used was by Rendow Yee Architectural Drawing: A Visual Compendium of Types and Methods. Just in case anyone is looking for a book. I still refer to it after all this time.

@ryanembry9875 4 года назад

A very simple explanation of a very technical aspect of natural rendering in design. Thanx

@maryanharrell5642 4 года назад

Wonderful lesson, Steve, as always. Thanks, dear friend.

@rosannebloompereira536 Год назад

thank you for this lesson, I learned a lot about using reference photos.

@susanhepburn6040 3 года назад

Really useful. It's so easy when you're new to painting to look at a scene without really SEEING it. One of the things that really struck me when I started was how you start really noticing things that you wouldn't have noticed before. You learn, somehow, to SEE differently, rather than just glancing and kind of blanking it rather than reaaly looking. I'm not explaining this very well, I know... Anyway, thank you for this video which points out and explains these issues so well. Greatly appreciated.

@conniehenricksen9533 4 года назад

Very good demo please do more on those subjects! Thank you much!!!!!!

@friedaschnell6887 4 года назад

Thank you Steve! This was helpful. Look forward to more.

@tammypark8896 3 года назад

I love this so much! I studied architecture for a year in grad school before sanity took hold, so this really hits home for me. Thankyou so much! I loved how you showed that the lines move away from the focal point in opposite directions, the ground and the sky planes. At least, that was how I understood it, hopefully I got that right. The only question left for me was how you determined the horizon line in both the horse scene and the forest scene with the path. In the latter I didn't even notice that the perspective was looking up hill? I'm still trying to figure out how you came up w/the horizon lines... Thanks for making my brain hurt in a good way!

@sherrylee6719 4 года назад

Big help! Thank you, Steve. I especially appreciate your explanation on the last picture. I had a light bulb moment. It does seem that I still struggle finding the horizon line I always believe it to be lower than it turns out to be. Maybe I'll never get it, but I'll keep trying.

@cheryl7476 4 года назад

Thanks Professor for all the lessons you share with us. I have learned much from you.

@luckyhiker3434 2 года назад

Technically speaking you are brilliant. Speaking of “methodology” (how to) you are outstanding! Simply put the information in your head must be creating extreme pressure against the inside of your skull (LOL). This was a great, great lesson about horizon/eye-level. I messed up quite a few landscapes not coordinating the horizon, vanishing point and the eye-level. This error will create a distortion and searching for the cause can be mystifying. You really know how to bring clarity to any subject.

@craigpotter4056 4 года назад

love how you talk with your hands! love 1 Corr 13:4 Thanks Steve!

@joann5157 4 года назад

Great lesson, Steve. Thanks!!

@aliciamolloy5948 3 года назад

Great video, thank you so much for this lesson!

@InezMcLeish 4 года назад

I have always struggled with landscapes and perspective. It makes my brain hurt :D The way you demonstrated, visually clear, helped enormously. I will be watching this again a time or two. Thanks.

@ralphcrosby9622 2 года назад

Thank you. Recently I have been trying to compose a house. I am having a heck of a time getting size and portions and scale correct. I am hoping this will help.

@brigittemccray8330 4 года назад

This was so helpful! Thank you!

@glenisepearson7407 4 года назад

You explain things so well. Thank you

@pamelabozzi239 4 года назад

Nice set of observations ... important for us to make them. Tnx.

@josephineherrera8508 4 года назад

This was extremely helpful, Steve. Thank you.

@simosimo7560 4 года назад

Thank you very much, Steve! I'm a self-taught student, but I think ti be on the right Road. More I paint, more I've learnt to observe. Observation is a thing that you improve, like technique, I think.

@hankvana2149 4 года назад

Thanks Steve! Good reminder to paint what we actually see and not what we know.

@robertgoode4516 4 года назад

So very helpful! Thank you!

@veaudor 4 года назад

The thing with the cloud was very interesting. I've been struggling with rendering skyscapes. Thx.

@FeathPymArt 4 года назад

I thought I had a pretty good grasp on perspective (and scale), but it was all gut or instinct. You taught me why and how to analyze it, tyvm! It also answered a question I've been dragging around for over 40 years! Why a picture I'd painted at 18 felt so flat - it was an AH HA! moment for me. thanks :)

@cindybtanner3974 4 года назад

Thank you Steve. Very very helpful.

@recoveringsoul755 4 года назад

Wow this was incredibly helpful. I tried to sketch the inside of the pizza parlor the other day while I was waiting. The stuff in front of me turned out OK.But I turned my head to the left and tried to draw that row of tables. And , ha ha , when I was done it looked like a centipede crawling up the wall. Seeing the objects as planes in 3D really helped.

@meeraahuja1594 2 года назад

Thank you for the brilliant lesson

@MusingsFromTheDen 4 года назад

Thank you, that was very interesting. I've put it in my 'art tips' folder. 😊

@cassiescreations9828 4 года назад

It is a great lesson, great not only for beginners but your video covers important facts that we all need to remember. Thank you for the time and work you put into this video and into all your videos. It is greatly appreciated.

@annalisamanderville1364 4 года назад

Thank you! Wonderful lesson.

@jinggao6875 3 года назад

Thank you very much for sharing!

@kerry5586 4 года назад

You have been looking at my paintings! LOL I am guilty of all these faults and they are so hard to overcome. A great tutorial as always.

@clairebureau5881 4 года назад

Very useful! Thanks again!

@hypatia4754 3 года назад

Great lesson, thanks!

@bethjames9246 3 года назад

Steve, Thank you for Actually teaching !

@lo1041 3 года назад

You are a wonderful teacher. The best way I can think to thank you for all your helpful tutorials is to subscribe to your Patreon platform. Thank you!

@mindofwatercolor 3 года назад

Thank you!

@maedevincentis1878 4 года назад

Great video, Steve, thanks much.

@tarotbysemaj2424 Год назад

A most helpful video. Thank you.

@mchris1020 4 года назад

Very informative--thank you!

@suzannekauffman6088 4 года назад

Good reminders, thanks

@margretmartin7572 4 года назад

Super helpful!! Thanx!

@coloradocorri 4 года назад

This was a fantastic lesson - thank you! I would love to hear any tips you can share on representing an arial view of a landscape scene. I have tried a couple and something isn’t clicking for me. I would love to paint a view from the edge of valleys and canyons. Tough subject for me!