The Horizon Line...

...is the most important part of a landscape painting, and I usually devote an entire day to it's creation. It is not a straight line, as the world is not flat, but an ever so subtly curved line.


The trick is to make it curved enough to not be flat, but flat enough to not be noticeably curved, and then the brain will take over and read it as flat. Next time you see a landscape painting and something appears just a little bit off, check the horizon line from the side of the painting.


Chances are it is yard stick straight, or even more nauseating and vertigo inducing, higher on one side or the other.

- jb boyd