Impressionist landscape paintings

These beautifully textured palette knife paintings will make you yearn for the great outdoors.

From the Look Homeward Collection. Landscape oil paintings. Blue skies, big clouds, fields, and trees.

'Blue Meadows' 8x10 pastel ©Karen Margulis available $150 I am always amazed at the ability artists have to create a feeling of depth in a landscape painting. After all we only have paint and a flat surface. The depth is only an illusion but a very magical one when it is done well. Learning the principles of aerial or atmospheric perspective and linear perspective is the key to creating believable depth. Putting them to practice is another matter. I have a tip that helps remind me that…

The impressionists were masters of capturing movement and energy in their paintings. To paint in a similar style, adjust your brush strokes and paint with bold colors. Layer your paint to blend the colors and add texture to your painting....

Original Artwork by Cindy Cutler Awrey

Claude Monet in Front of His House at Giverny, 1921 In this post, I will be taking a deeper look into one of my favorite artists, Claude Monet. Monet and many of the other great Impressionists have been instrumental to my own development as an artist, particularly in relation to color and brushwork. Like many

Impressionism changed the way that artists paint and paved the way for contemporary art. Here are the most famous Impressionist paintings that revolutionized

Edgar Payne – Master of Landscape Composition and Color. When I think of landscape painting, one of the first artists who comes to mind is Edgar Payne. He was one of America's most prominent landscape painters who had a remarkable eye for composition and color (he literally wrote what many consider to be the book on landscape composition). #drawpaintacademy

All Tucked In, Paso Robles by Kim Lordier Pastel ~ 12 x 9