Pastel Drawing Depth with Blue

Video Transcript

"I've been continuing to work on the leaves and as I was reframing some of these and refining their shapes and looking at what I was seeing, I realized that there's a lot green in there and we to translate it to the painting. It becomes difficult to see what's going on and I remembered that if you look out across a landscape, you look at the mountains in the distance, what color do they turn? They become bluer. The further away something gets, the more blue it becomes. We can use that trick, in the space of this painting, in order to create some distance between the foreground leaves, which have a bunch of greens, and the background leaves, which have a bunch of greens. All we need to do is establish a distance with the use of a bluer green or a blue. Watch what happens when I add blue into the distance between these two greens, which were nearly identical, or in any of these areas. The greens in the foreground, come forward."