03-16-2011, 07:01 PM
Gary ... question.
The paint that you are using ... is it opaque, translucent or does that all depend on how much it is thinned?
The reason I ask is that the trick to use on the distant tree line is to lay in a slightly darker shade of green (with just a little gray added) for depth and then dab the lighter green shade (grayed-out a smidge) that you are using now on top. The lighter color will necessarily have to be a bit more towards the opaque side of the equation for the color to read as on top and "closer to the viewer." That will put the "leaves that are getting sunlight" appearing closer than those on the far side of the trees that are in shadow, and the trees will have depth and still recede as they do in the photos, if the colors used are more and more muted as the objects get farther and farther away, as, in the photo, the trees on the right appear to be closer than the ones on the left, and the ones you "planted" on the left in the foreground of the mock-up appear closer than the ones in the treeline in the photo.
Look again at the photos for guidance.
The paint that you are using ... is it opaque, translucent or does that all depend on how much it is thinned?
The reason I ask is that the trick to use on the distant tree line is to lay in a slightly darker shade of green (with just a little gray added) for depth and then dab the lighter green shade (grayed-out a smidge) that you are using now on top. The lighter color will necessarily have to be a bit more towards the opaque side of the equation for the color to read as on top and "closer to the viewer." That will put the "leaves that are getting sunlight" appearing closer than those on the far side of the trees that are in shadow, and the trees will have depth and still recede as they do in the photos, if the colors used are more and more muted as the objects get farther and farther away, as, in the photo, the trees on the right appear to be closer than the ones on the left, and the ones you "planted" on the left in the foreground of the mock-up appear closer than the ones in the treeline in the photo.
Look again at the photos for guidance.
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
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Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln