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The Painting Lesson
by Linda Carson
big black pig studio
98 King St. N., Waterloo Ontario Canada
www.bigblackpig.com
Aerial or Atmospheric Perspective
Many people have heard of linear perspective, which describes how the appearance of linear and boxy objects is altered by their distance from the viewer.
Aerial perspective—also called atmospheric perspective—describes how the appearance of objects is altered over distance by the effects of the air between the viewer and the object. The intervening air is not perfectly transparent or colourless. The farther away an object is, the thicker this imperfect "lens" of air is and the stronger the effect of aerial perspective. Nearby objects are easy to focus on and see details, but distant objects are blurred by the intervening atmosphere.
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For example: The blurry feathers (above) appear farther away than the feathers that are in sharper focus. |
Aerial perspective also makes distant objects look lighter in value, lower in intensity and cooler (i.e. more bluish).
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