Here's a fun challenge exercise for you when you don't know what to paint. Here are the guidelines:
1. It should be recognizable as a landscape with 3 discernible layers representing foreground, middle ground and background. You don't have to paint them in any specific order. These three layers do not have to include the sky.
2. Layers can be any size, width or shape. They can contain textures, water, tree lines, fields, buildings, rock formations, or any other landscape elements you can think of. Elements from one layer such as trees or a house, can appear to break the line and overlap a layer behind it.
3. Layers can be any color but work on good foreground to distance scale and Aerial Perspective (closer objects are warmer and more contrasty, the more distant they are, the cooler, less detailed and lower their contrast).
4. Draw it out on your paper ahead of time if you wish but you don't have too. Just start painting if you prefer.
5. Painting from reference such as photo reference is fine but keep it quick and simple and try to paint more than one.
Have fun!
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