103 Passing the Mountains – Pastel Nagomi Art

Passing the Mountains captures the warmth and calm of an autumn day, where red leaves cover the hills and mist softens the air. In this Pastel Nagomi Art lesson, you will learn to express atmosphere and distance using layered tones and fading gradients. The winding path leads the eye through the painting, creating a poetic sense of journey and reflection.

This lesson guides you in shaping landscape depth through colour balance and composition. By blending warm and cool hues, you will discover how to portray both the stillness of nature and the gentle rhythm of movement — a harmony between serenity and life.

You will learn:
• How to create perspective and layering using gradients
• How to balance warm and cool tones to enhance atmosphere
• How to build compositional flow that draws the viewer into the scene