I want to know which colors appear to go back, and which appear come forward in the painting. Please refer me to a place this has already been discussed. So you get most yellowish colors in the foreground, most reddish ones in the mid-ground, and blueish ones off in the distance, miles away.
Maybe there are other similar color rules. But generally, color and value contrasts do tend to decrease off into the distance…if there is enough atmosphere and distance to take effect. So you get most reddish, yellowish, and bluish colors in the foreground, most yellowish and bluish ones in the mid-ground, and blueish ones off in the distance, miles away. If we take the time to go outside and observe we will find that there are more warm colour in the landscape or seascape than these simple rules allow for.
We can attribute this warming of distant objects to the complex interaction of Refraction, Reflection and Scattering. Blue from refraction can be the dominant element in not so distant subjects while at the same time warmth caused by selective transmission is effecting the distant object.
In simplifying complex physical effects we produce unsound conclusions. Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes! Well true, and what about sunsets, where the sky is pink, orange, yellow, and the mountains below are vivid pink?
I mean, there are indeed rules, but they will not always work all of the time. For not so distant objects, the atmosphere blocks everything longer than, say, nm. For extremely distant objects, the larger amount of atmosphere blocks everything longer than, say, nm. The second paragraph of my reply explained the reason behind the observation Sam.
The important thing for us as observers is to realise that the atmosphere as well as being made up of gas also contains water droplets and fine dust particles. It is these particles that selectively diffract some of the light, scattering off the blue end of the spectrum which accounts for the blue of the sky. These illuminated particles are throwing out a small amounts of blue light in all directions but at the same time transmitting more of the red light.
The position of the sun in relation to the observer is also important. You will see more of this effect with your back to the sun than when looking at a right angle to the sun. How strongly the distant object is illuminated is also important, shadows will look blue while strongly lit subjects will look purple. The strongest observation of selective transmission can be seen at sunrise and sunset when the observer is furthest from the refracted blue rays and only sees the selectively transmitted warm rays.
When the sun is in my back, the color of the sea is more saturated, and the sea looks more beautiful. When the sun is in front of me, the color of the grass lawn is more saturated, looks yellowish green, looks like fresh young new-growth grass, and it generates more positive emotional response. When the sun is in my back, the grass looks darker, more like mature grass, and the emotional response is more neutral. If you go over to the Plein air hall of fame forum there are two threads in the first ten threads that could be of interest, one on regression of colour and another on foliage at different distances.
Generally in a painting colours that are cooler, bluer, and greyer will seem to recede. Consider, for e. The colors around the sun are both warm and high chroma, yet the area does not advance unnaturally; it does attract the most attention, therefore it is used very effectively as the focal point and the reflection on the water as a path towards it.
Definitely, it does look at a good distance beyond the foreground with the track and man walking, the trees catching the light delicately, the flying birds and the waters. Morning in the tropics by Frederic Edwin Church. There are no predominantly warm colors in the background here, but it is of a higher chroma than the foreground, yet he has been successful in creating a marvellous amount of depth and distance which is so necessary in landscape painting in this work.
Two, red-colored birds perched on a palm tree, which catches the light ever so beautifully, a red-flowering bromeliad on the path of brambles leading up to the roots of aged and gnarled trees form the exquisitely detailed foreground, the mid ground is formed by the slightly hazy trees and the white flock of birds just above the waters and beyond that are amorphous shapes for trees at the horizon.
In fact, you can find many paintings of sunrises and sunsets which have warm colors in the background and which work beautifully. The foreground is quite cool, blue and bluish white, the shape of the iceberg leads the eye towards the midground which is quite warm, compared to the foreground, a beautiful green-blue which forms the focal point, the iceberg and the background behind that gets warmer!
So, the painting gets warmer as it recedes, yet works beautifully. Post navigation Generally speaking, the colors, red, yellow and orange are called warm colors and the colors blue, green and violet are called cool colors. Louis The problem with having such preconceived notions is that it becomes crippling, we limit ourselves even at the planning stage of the painting to fewer possibilities.
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