Landscape Painting Fundamentals — Part 2

Take the landscape fundamentals further by learning how atmosphere, trees, sky holes, clouds, and color relationships create depth and believable space.

This course builds on Part 1 and focuses on the elements that make landscapes feel open, layered, and alive. You’ll explore atmospheric perspective, tree structure, color shifts, sky holes, cloud forms, and practical color theory through demonstrations, assignments, and master studies.

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What You’ll Learn

  • Atmospheric perspective and depth

  • How color changes with distance

  • Trees and simplified tree structure

  • Sky holes and negative shapes

  • Cloud and sky construction

  • Color theory for landscape painting

  • Creating stronger separation between foreground, middle ground, and distance

  • Using temperature, value, and saturation to support depth

  • Applying these ideas to complete landscape studies

Inside the Course

  • 26 lessons

  • 5+ hours of video instruction

  • 3 master artist analysis lessons

  • 3 guided assignments

  • Robert completes all 3 assignments

  • In-depth demonstrations and practical landscape studies

Who It’s For

This course is ideal for artists who already understand basic landscape structure and want to improve depth, atmosphere, trees, skies, and color relationships.

It’s designed as the natural follow-up to Landscape Painting Fundamentals — Part 1.