LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Capture dramatic lighting
- Simplifying the scene
- Use a limited palette to paint an autumn landscape
What makes a landscape painting really stand out from the crowd? If you lined up a series of paintings depicting the same scene from the same angle, there may be advantages based on the skill of the brushwork, or choice of medium, or even, perhaps the scale of the work. Chances are, the painting that leaps out at you will have contrast of light and shade, rich bursts of colour or shafts of illumination cascading down from the heavens. In