dark will get darker and light will get lighter

If I understand the effect you want to achieve correctly, a lot depends on the colour(s) you intend to use, the size you’re painting and other factors – for example are you going to use any edge shading or just use flat colour? If you are using shading or other lighting effects you could pretty much use any colours and still have it work visually. Jay, it sounds like you’re basically trying to achieve a trompe l’oeil effect, in which case atmospheric perspective rules probably don’t apply. Good old radio…(no I’m not a grumpy old man)

Also, you’ll often get a bit of purple to the objects that are a little closer than the bluest ones.īy your question I assume you’re not talking about light and shadow, because all this assumes all the objects are under equal illumination. You’ll often get this ‘blueing’ effect even under a grey sky. Note: nature is a little more complex than this. They get bluer and slightly darker (only because blue is darker than white) off in the distance.īut this atmospheric perspective usually needs lots of distcnce to become noticable sometimes miles of distance are needed (unless it’s hazy or foggy). If the objects are light (lighter than the sky behind them) they will get darker as they recede into the distance look at the white portion of the squares. See how they get lighter off in the distance? And more blue too. If the objects are dark, they get lighter as they recede into the distance look at the brown portion of the squares below. It depends on how light or dark the panes are.

Dark will get darker and light will get lighter