Landscape

My assignment is to paint a landscape that has a foreground, middle ground, and background. My goal is to show there is more detail in the foreground, and it will progressive lessen and colors will become lights as the viewer looks to the background. I will accomplish this by choosing a photo with these aspects and painting exactly what I see rather than adding detail to everything.

Here is the photo I will be painting. As you can see, the hills and trees in the background have much less detail than the trees in the foreground, making this
an acceptable photo.

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Here is my painting the the landscape. The photo made it appear lighter than it actually is. This is a successful painting because you can clearly see the depth of the trees in the foreground to the hills in the background. Of course, the painting also looks like the photo I had, which is a positive aspect. 

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