Painting Blue
How do you make cliffs blend in a blue painting?
I know cliffs are traditionally brown. However, I plan on making the whole painting blue-toned. I'm thinking of a purplish color for the cliffs, but I'd really like some other opinions.
I'm not sure which medium you are using. I work in watercolor and have done quite a few southwestern, including Grand Canyon, landscapes. I have done one desert sunset in which the land mass is all blues and purples. What you want to do is OK as long as you paint the sky as a sunrise or sunset and an all blue and purple land mass will look convincing.
What I do is paint the distant shadows blue or purple and the sun-lit surfaces a lighter tones than closer surfaces. After the paint is dry, I layer a wash of transparent blue to the distant sun-lit surfaces.
If you are working in oils or acrylics, you might attempt to duplicate that process, otherwise you'll have to mix the appropriate colors.
Keep in mind that the most distant objects have less saturated colors and are cool, near by objects are warmer.
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