aerial landscapes

These landscapes represent the earth from above. Some aerial landscapes have the point of view looking down from above, so the painting is all earth and no sky. Others have the vantage point facing the other way, so that the artist can see both the earth and the sky, but from a much higher vantage point. Artists travel by planes, hot air balloons, helicopters, and other forms of air transportation to obtain aerial vantage points for their paintings.

landscapes

Inner landscapes are an artist’s rendering of your mind as a three-dimensional space. These paintings are often somewhat abstract or surreal and can be quite psychoanalytic in nature.

river landscapes

The focus of these paintings is rivers and the various features that run along them. These paints can also focus on smaller bodies of water, such as streams and rivulets.

seascapes

Seascapes represent the sea or ocean and its different features. They may include features found along the coast, such as cliffs and beaches.

lunar landscapes

These paintings represent the surface of the moon. They can focus entirely on the lunar landscape, or they can include distant views of Earth, the Sun, and the stars.

urban landscapes

The focus of urban landscapes are cities or any type of sprawling urban development. Although urban landscapes may include some landscape-like features (for example, it may include a natural setting such as a park), the focus is on the buildings that make up the city.

urban landscapes

Cityscapes are pretty much the same as cityscapes, except that they represent towns instead of cities. Like the urban landscapes, the focus is on the buildings of the city.

celestial landscapes

These focus on the sky and its different features and formations. The colors of the sky are a key feature of this type of painting. Unlike cloudscapes, skyscapes do not necessarily have to include clouds or land, although some do.

cloudscapes

Unlike skyscapes, cloudscapes are concerned with the composition and characteristics of clouds. They usually include the earth and the artist’s point of view is from the ground looking up at the clouds. Although land is often included in cloudscapes, the focus is on the clouds.

harsh landscapes

Hardscapes focus on the man-made structures that cover the ground. In other words, hardscapes do not feature exposed natural soil features, such as soil or grass. In these paintings, everything on the ground is man-made. These can be very similar to urban and urban landscapes, although they do not feature parks and other natural features that urban and urban landscapes can present.