What makes a good landscape painting?

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What makes a good landscape painting?

• Use perspective Things getting smaller in the
  distance.
• 2) Work from life

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• Plan the composition carefully (Composition is
  when you put things on the page)
• All these famous landscape paintings use
  perspective and overlapping really well

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• 3) Things get less distinct, lighter and hazier
  as they get further away into the distance.
  (Aerial Perspective)

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• Things get less distinct, lighter and hazier as
  they get further away into the distance. (Aerial
  Perspective)
• Brilliant landscape paintings by the German
  painter Casper David Friedrich

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• 4) An interesting sky always helps, as well as
  lots of detail in the foreground.

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• 5) Lots of layers and overlapping helps. (Having
  things in front of other things) Always have a
  definite background, middleground and foreground.

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• These artists (Pissaro and Cezanne) use
  overlapping and looking through things as a way
  of making their paintings look more interesting

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• 6) Dont be frightened to experiment with
  different textures and techniques. You can do a
  lot more with paint and colour, than you can with
  pencil

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Monet painted with dabs and dashes of colour
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Pissaro was a French Impressionist who painted
with dabs and dashes of colour
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• Seuret used dots

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• Van Gogh was a Post Impressionist who painted
  with dashes of thick, bright colour

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• Use very bright colours (Be inspired by a visit
  to a foreign country where they have really
  bright light!)
• Paul Gauguins Tahiti

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7) Shallow water will reflect the sky or what is
directly above it