What Is a Landscape?
A landscape is a painting or drawing of an outdoor place — things like mountains, fields, rivers, forests, deserts, beaches, and gardens. When you look out a window and see the world outside, that view is a landscape!
Landscape painting is one of the oldest types of art. Artists have been painting beautiful outdoor scenes for thousands of years. They paint rolling hills, dramatic storms, peaceful sunsets, snowy mountains, and sunny meadows.
The most important thing in every landscape is something called the horizon line. The horizon line is where the sky meets the ground. If you go outside and look far into the distance, you can see where the sky and ground seem to touch each other. That line where they meet is the horizon.
The horizon line divides your painting into two main parts: everything above the line is SKY, and everything below the line is GROUND (or water, if you are painting a beach or lake scene).