How to Paint Tree Studies in Watercolor - Detailed Shapes
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2015
- Learn how to paint better watercolor trees by doing these simple shape studies. In part 2 I show you the next step in taking simple tree shapes and adding internal light and shadow for a more realistic rendering of the leaf canopy. Easy and quick technique for landscape painting, journaling or simply studying trees to become more proficient.
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I like your videos because I don't have to strain to hear. That is sooo important when trying to learn. Thank you. Content is great, too!
+Beatrix Potter 👍
Your videos are very much appreciated. Thank you for doing this for all of us wannabe artists.
Complete awewomeness! (lol) I saw the your first tutorial teaching us to do more than just stipple trees to death and now watching this video it is even more like "Duh, why did I ever stipple my tree lines ad nauseum??" So simple yet so different from the way most of us have been doing trees! Yay!! Thanks as always Steve for sharing your time and especially your talent! God Bless.
Love, love, love, absolutely love your video tutorials! Wish there was a way to make it stand out just how much I treasure your teachings!!!! Wish I lived close by you, or you close by me and I could convince you to really consider offering watercolor workshops or any other type of teaching format of your choosing so I could be the first one to sign up for class. 😊 I sincerely mean it with all my heart!
Your teaching on the trees is just fantastic, thank you... it's have clear few doubts in my learning process to watercolors... the more I try it the more I like it... THANKS...
Walter Pierluissi Awesome Walter, glad to hear it!
Thanks Steve I was inspired to buy my first spiral bound journal and dedicate it to trees. I live in the forest in Canada and have an overwhelming amount of subject material! I was not sure how to attack it. So I bought the journal(which are not easy to find in small town BC) plunked myself in a park because the trees are a little more thinned out in the park and started with your exercises. Hey you were right! Each tree does have a shape and if you paint a tree by looking at the tree it is a much more interesting tree. Looks like I’ll be spending a lot of time gazing at trees with a new perspective. Thanks again.
Good for you. Great idea for developing better tree painting.
Wow, the post from a year ago from Maria Garcia sure described my feelings about you! Your videos are the best! Your paintings (in my opinion) are the best, and you inspired me to start painting again. This has helped me out of my depression and I'm giving one of my paintings to my son and one to my sister. You have helped me a lot! Thank you, from Jackie, from California.
Nice demo... thanks
Thank you! I find trees reaally tough and this was a huge help!
I love and appreciate your videos! Your information is easy to understand. Thank you!
Another great tutorial Steve. Can't wait to give it a try today. Thank you!!!
What a brilliant tutorial !!!
Just discovered your channel and I’m so thankful! Much appreciation to you for sharing your knowledge.
Excellent video tutorial! Thanks so much for sharing your skills.
Thank you for making it so simple !
I've recently started using watercolours and have watched lots of good videos for beginners, but yours is by far the best for me. You point out many of the things I have questions about. And this is only the second video. Thank you very much.
Fantastic brief study! Thank you a lot Steve!
Thank you! I've followed along and painted trees with you, and practiced a few pages worth of trees, and they're finally sort of looking like trees!
thank you for the help! great video.
Very helpful video! Thanks a lot for showing!
Amazing work and a big help seeing how you paint these trees. Thanks so much for your wonderful tutorials!
Thank you for such a fantastic tree study!!! It was so helpful.
Love your videos. You have given me so much courage to try to paint all kinds of paintings. Thanks for all your help!
These 2 must be the most useful set of tree deomos I have seen. Looking forward to see how you tackle trees nearer the foreground. Thanks so much. And I love your perky music at the start of each video - as soon as I hear it now, I get itching to pick up a paint brush. Brilliant for pandemic blues!
Pretty amazing. Beautiful trees!
I learn so much by watching your videos. But I have also learned how to take it a step further and make it my own and learn to tweak it for my style of painting. Thank you for posting.
Brill. Thank you so much. You help me get over my frustrations and help me get a better result.
Love your honesty and vulnerability. Thanks for another great study.
I loved it , it was a ton of help. And I will do these studies more.
Looks like I've lucked out in catching you just as you're now beginning the series, Steve. At first I was concerned you were going to entice with a couple super demonstrations then switch the pitch by offering to continue buy requiring afee. (bait and switch if you know what I mean.) I could not be more surprised and delighted at what you've done here. I hope I gain at least some of your enthusiasm and love of the art. It seems I learn exactly in the way you teach. Coming from me that's a real compliment because 90 percent of my learning has not come from instructors or courses simply because I get bored and want to jump ahead or quit. No jumping ahead here. I intend to stay the course and I can't thank you enough for what your doing. Putting it simply; I learn best by doing as it seems. I want to think just like water color. LOL
oldasa Thanks for the kind words. No teasers here! :-)
Thank you Steve. I really enjoyed this tutorial! It has helped me feel more confident when painting trees.
Thank you Thank you Thank you. For sharing your knowledge. You are amazing in your instructions and knowledge.
🤗 Thanx Steve, great help!
Love this technique and can't wait to try it. So helpful. Thank you.
Brilliant, thank you!
I'm very much a beginner, and I found this video so helpful. Thanks!
This one of my favorite lessons of yours. thanks so much for all the great tree ideas regarding shapes and esp expanding the range of greens in the palette. Trees are my favorite subject. In Florida our trees are an array of colors & shapes. palms, mangoes, live oaks - which are huge , lots of holes between branches that are wider than tree is tall - sea grapes whose foliage, again at least 10x in width of trunk no holes, solid body,short, thick foundations - trees with thick growths of stranglers - we have one in the park if you look far skyward one sees a palm tree punching out 2 stories up swinging its fronds & of course we can't forget the flowering trees - oh la la! The hurricanes takes down a lot of trees but the palm say hi -ya & go crazy with dance. Hard to find a downed one.Thank you for the time and thought you put into all your classes. i'm learning a lot.
Thanks, glad it was a help. I've been to Florida many times. Both sets of Grandparents lived there so I know what you mean.
thank you so much. It is really helpful and lets me know how interesting painting is!!!
So helpfull! Thank you!
I made a tree this afternoon. I should have seen this video, before I got painting haha. But it was fun! Next time I will paint with these instructions in mind.
This comment isn't just for this video, but multiple, you are highly talented, your work is so beautiful. Keep it up.
This is such an awesome video!!!! I have created some of the best trees I've ever pained thanks to you!!! Please keep doing what you are doing!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and talent. I love your uncomplicated but at the same time sound way to showing how to. Perhaps too bad Englishhere to express my joy about your videos, I would like to say I think you are an iluminated (-ing) person.Best wishes from Bremen.
muhlenstedt Thanks for the encouraging words!
Steve, great tutorial. Thanks so much for all you do....so encouraging for us beginners. I watched this several times and your video on biggest art mistake (lack of contrast). Helped me paint my best practice trees👍
Große Klasse !!! Grossartig !!!
beautiful!
I am in awe
You are a great instructor, thankyou for sharing
This tuto was very helpfull, thank you !
Thank you this was very helpful!
This is very helpful,,,,xxxxx
Very helpful thank you. And your pace is ideal an elder.
Thanks a whole bunch for the tree tutorial. I have improved 100% since watching your videos. Trees are my stumbling point. Can't seem to visualize where and how to apply for leaves. My green colors have got so much better. Not grey. Getting better each time. You have the best watercolor teaching channel on UA-cam!
Thank you☺
Very kind thank you!
You make this look so easy!
I have watched your tree video several times and I love these trees ~ with the way you broke it down it took all my fear away and I look forward to painting trees~ Thank you
My pleasure!
Very informative thanks Steve
Thank you! I can’t wait to try these techniques! Your simple explanation cleared the way for me!
Thanks , again!
I have only recently discovered your site.. I am So impressed with how you demonstrate the various methods of how to painting watercolour and I’m Learning so much.. thank you .
Thank you so much for these studies!!! great stuff and so helpful when learning and just starting out!
+Brandi Weddle My pleasure!
I just painted the 2 best trees of my life thanks to this video - thank you soo much for sharing this knowledge - great fun!!
Try the exercise one of my mentors put me: Select your favourite 5 trees of all, then paint 10 different version of them. Bloom, spring, autumn, winter, snowy, dead... The exercise looks to develop speed, depth and imagination.
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Thanks again Steve. This has been a real 'light bulb' moment for me on my learning journey. Sooo enthused to try this. x
+Ange Mac Cool, go for it!
Very helpful. Thanks!
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Fun and informative and regards to the skull!
I love this video, I tend to be very detail oriented and have a hard time loosening up when painting so these little how to videos are great!
Glad you think so, thanks!
Great tutorial. Thank you so much for the detailed information.
Tracy Blackburn You're welcome. Thanks for watching!
Yay! New video :D
very helpful Thanks to you!
+Mrs Asif 👍
this was so helpful! thanks very much! :)
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Good stuff mind..
Thank you sir thanks for this video
Thanks.!
Great video as usual. Your instructioms are really helpful, especially to a a beginning watercolorist like me. Thanks and keep those videos coming.
Sharon Thibodeau Glad it was a help!
Very good man !!
+Madhavi Marathe 👍
I love your job! Kiss from Brazil!!!
+Sacha Braga 👍
Very helpful!
TitusLivy777 Glad to hear it!
New subscriber. Your tree studies have helped me so much! The simple studies are such great practice tools! I also find your critiques of supplies helpful. Please keep doing what you're doing!
+KB Oregon Will do, thanks!
Thanks for sharing your watercolour tips, I usually paint with oils and soft pastels. I enjoy watching your videos, they're very informative. You've given me courage to try watercolour, and make it look so easy! Wish me luck!
Good luck and have fun with it!
This is a great vid Thankyou
Melissa Vella Thanks for watching!
Great Tutorial, but what I miss in youtube is a tutorial on tree masses. I aways try to paint Yosemite and Yellowstone landmarks, but my pine forests never come out convincing. I have never seen a tutorial on that. Please Steve, consider making a tutorial about tree masses.
But anyway, thank you for the awesome channel.
Thanks Daniel but actually I talk about tree masses quite a lot in my landscape videos. Check out my trees play list. ua-cam.com/video/0ttm6kldz-c/v-deo.html
I love your channels. Watching yor videos helps me so much to improve my studies
+Sabrina Eras 👍
Like Your way off aproching Nature. Wonder how You paint a loose painted Villagescape ?
Love your approach with watercolors. I'm learning a lot and am inspired to do more watercoloring. Thank you for putting these awesome videos together and sharing them with us. Say hi to Reese for me.
Danita Reynolds More watercolor is good. Thanks for watching!
Great video and through your explanations I can see how to break down what I see better. My pencil drawings of tree branches coming out of the trunk is so much getter....thanks!
flossey100 Thanks, glad to hear you're improving!
+Karen MacArthur Thanks for your comments here and other videos. I'm unable to "reply" directly. Apparently your setting don't allow it. But thanks for watching.
so wonderfully helpful! Does it help you if I click on the sponsored ads below the video? If not, I will click the inset adverts. Please let me know, and thanks again!
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I have had difficulty painting trees, l tend to over wash .so your demo is very helpful. thankyou.
+Lynn Clark Yeah I hear you. Very common problem.
Gracias voy a probar
+pilar arrosa 👍
Thank you Steve i am making a few less "happy accidents" and a few more good efforts.
+Jill Terrell Awesome!
I'm learning so much from your videos. I appreciate your approach to watercolor and you make it look so easy. (It's not. I keep trying, though.) I miss your Bible verses at the end of the video!
Thanks, that's just on mini episodes. Will always have verses on the longer ones. Although my minis seem to be getting just as long..:-)
Definitely appreciate your bible verses !
Thanks for your time making this tutorials, I like the way you explain on this videos. By the way, can you make some video about painting negative spaces? That will be really useful! :)
Alejandro Hernández I'll add that to the list. :-)
sigh- you da best :)
I have just started painting and u have helped me so much, have u thought of doing a DVD because I think u should I would buy it .
+Janice Mills I thought about doing online courses someday as I am able to devote more time to this. Fingers crossed!
Steve did u do these trees on dry or wet paper thanks so much for all your help going to do this study tonight
Dry. The shapes are wet though when I charge in darker color.
Con que sustancia combina sus acuarelas, se ven aceitosas
Nice. Show your palette. So i can learn.
I just bought one of those golden edge brushes last week. Any particular brands other than that you recommend?
Brandon Moreno Yes, check out this video if you have a chance.
ua-cam.com/video/llj23ov38JA/v-deo.html
Que la agrega al acuarela mi gusta como se ve no se que sea, si pudiera contestarme le agradeceria
the reason why you have so many Suscribers is you were honest and generous. You start using tricks and trying to deceive viewers by skipping important steps, believe me, subscribers will choose a different youtuber to follow... good luck from Spain
Thanks!
What kind of cloth do you use to dry your brush? All my towels becoming wet very fast and then brush is not as dry as after paper towels :)
Thank you for your videos!
Drawing Ninja Its just an old hand towel. I sometimes blot my brush on a paper towel too.
Thanks for the video, Steve. As always, very much enjoy your tutorials. About what angle do you have your board? Is it raised about an inch or so in the back from being level? I am only guessing by the slight shadow on the left side of your board. It also looks like you have new lighting, daylight bulbs maybe?
KaBluey59 Yes, board is about 2" raised actually. I do use daylight bulbs. Always have, but sometimes the white balance in the camera gets a little off.