Very clear and instructive, thank you. Just so you know, 5 years on, this lesson/demonstration is still valuable and relevant to those of us trying to improve and get inspiration from the lessons.
I pray your wife recovers swiftly from her surgery. Merry Christmas to you and your family.....and Reese. Thank you for giving us your excellent videos.
Thank you for a wonderful Christmas present. When I watched this video the first time I went out in my own little yard and took pictures of the winter trees there. They are waiting for me to put the holidays away. Now, Christmas morning, I treated myself to another viewing of your video before the house gets crazy. Your quiet voice is a meditative way to start the day. I'm hoping your wife is doing well, recovering nicely. And I hope you are, too. The Good Lord knows it is often just as hard for family, especially spouses, when they watch their loved one struggle. Peace be with you, and Merry Christmas!
I love trees in spring after a rain that turns the trees & branches very dark just as they're about to leaf out. That very pale green of the just emerging leaves & dark wood is a beautiful contrast. Thanks for all you share.
Oh, Steve, one of my two favorite subjects, birds and trees!!!! What a Christmas gift you have given me!! Thanks so much. I will watch this one several times, and I have learned so much from it about watching the way the branches grow. I love to study tree branches, too. I hope you and your dear wife and family have a very blessed Christmas and a wonderful New Year. God bless you all, and thank you for your wonderful teaching. You will never know how much you mean to this old painter down in Savannah!
Awesome! Thank you for sharing. The top two remind me of days gone by lazing on the grass and looking up in awe at the intricate complexity of nature. Good memories. Great studies.
Yesterday I went to the art store and bought Arches Cold Press watercolor paper. Today I fell in love. I fell in love with Arches. Thank you for all your teaching. I’ve learned so much. Have a great Christmas.
All of your videos are so fantastic and I'm learning so much! I've always loved the patterns of leafless branches against the sky in Winter. I haven't been able to successfully express what I'm seeing before now. I bought a rigger and it practically paints the branches itself! Your instruction makes watercolor painting a lot less overwhelming for me. Thank you so much!
I'm a beginner drawer. Trees are fascinatingto me. However in the summer, they're all big lumps, hard to tell where the branches are. This is the first winter after I started to draw and boy, all the tree branches are so interesteting and unique. Like you said in the video, I take photos of them and try to use them as refereences. Thanks a million for this wonderful video! Peace!
How have I missed this video for so long? I started wc about 1 1/2 years ago, independently did a few branch paintings and I'm certainly encouraged to continue on from this excellent video. You are the best, Steve! If I wasn't in the red I'd be a patron.
Merry Christmas! I'm praying for you and your wife as she recovers. Thank you for being such an inspiration to me, and for guiding me in my watercolor adventures! I can believe how much my painting has improved , between the techniques and using equipment and paper that you have demonstrated. God continue to bless you! ❤
I love your branch studies. I was thinking that your studies would look nice with the whole page framed and hung for people to see. It is a great example of how a number of small sketches can be used to make a completed work of art.
Could not believe you were doing a demo on precisely the topic of tree branches that I have tried to master for the last few months!! BRILLIANT! Thank you Steve for this watercolour Christmas present. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and good wishes for your wife. 🎄🙏🎨
Thanks for your wonderful tutorials this past year. So interesting and informative. Praying for healing for your wife. Merry Christmas and a new year filled with God’s blessings to you and your family.
Merry Christmas, Steve. This video is a special present to me. Bless you. I love figure drawing, painting but I’ve moved far out in a rural area and have run low out of money for gas and drawing meet ups. Can’t go to the coffees shop to draw people. So now I’m doing the trees and landscape. I really love it! I love the beauty of the trees and trying to capture it. Landscapes are new for me. Plus I follow my cats around and try to draw them while they are moving. Also the sheep and chickens. 😄
Absolutely gorgeous! Hope your wife is having a good recovery. I missed hearing about her operation. Hope you and all of your loved ones are having a wonderful 2019 and that the year will be a wonderful one for you!
I loved the exercise on tree branches. Sometime, can you do another video like this on painting different types of rocks? Also, different kinds of flowing water?
Steve, I’m in awe at your talents- so easy to listen to and inspiring to watch. Thank you! Blessings of healing to your wife and peace and joy to yourself at Christmas.
I have watched this video again, Steve, having saved it on my watch again list. I loved it so much! I really love to draw and paint trees and this one is such an inspiration to me. Thanks again, Steve.
Wow!!! Love your tree branches and woody roots. So beautiful. The uh look so realistic. Thank you. I love trees and struggle so trying to paint or draw them. You make it look so easy and I know it is not.
Enjoyed your branch studies Steve! Trees are always interesting, most people don't realize that they are essentially "solar collectors" and each species has its own solution as to how to collect the most light. From the trunk to the primary limbs to the secondary branches all the way out to the twigs and leaves each species has a "basic pattern" that it grows to. From what I have seen in art class, I think that people have problems drawing trees because the don't follow any basic pattern and their "generic" trees look "odd". Putting oak branches on a birch trunk or if the fan-out of the twigs is wrong it will not ring true with the viewer - they may not "consciously" know the what is wrong but they will feel something is not right. Kinda like having conflicting light sources or a slightly twisted perspective. Its my favorite time of year to go out and study naked trees :-) ATB Steve! Hank
This is an awesome lesson! I noticed in your videos that the trees are especially detailed and lively, very organic! You make these things we take for granted so interesting. Thank you for sharing!
Wonderful video! I am a lover of trees for the reasons you describe. Branches offer endless possibilities for design and elegance. I work in pen and ink and take hundreds of tree photos. MI love tramping through woods discovering drawing possibilities. Merry Xmas and Happy New Year and many rewarding drawing and painting adventures.
Beautiful branch study! I'll definitely use some of the techniques shown. Love trees and unusual branch shapes & designs. Thanks for your great videos.
All the best to your wife, you and your family! Thank you so much for the video also. Merry Christmas and a Happy/Healthy New Year. It will be great to break these up as referral videos.
Most excellent, fabulous tutorial. Thank you Steve. Wishing a speedy recovery to the Mrs. and a very Happy Holiday to you and the family. See you next year.
Thank you for another wonderful video. I learn so much from you. Have a wonderful Christmas, and all of your followers will look forward to seeing you in 2019!
Two, two uses in one - what old commercial was that? Driving me nuts trying to remember. I loved your study and especially the talking during your work - so informative. Merry Christmas and a Healthy New Year.
I am so excited to practice what you are showing us Steve! I have avoided branch studies, as it looks so intricate. I appreciate your observations and style so much! Merry Christmas, and many prayers sent for your wife’s healing recovery!😉
Thank you for your video and art design explanation. I always wanted to take an art class and feel like your explanations were informative. I will try to listen to other of your videos and try your watercolor suggestions.
Wow. I really like how you sketched and used the thumbnail compositions! At first, I didn't understand their purpose. Your branches are beautiful. I love your photos with the greens behind the bare grayish branches - the contrast makes those branches pop. Yep, I have pulled over to take pictures of trees, as well. Last year, "something" told me to photograph a tree at the end of our road - there was nothing really special about it but I took the photo. A bad storm destroyed it about two weeks later. At least, I have a record that it existed. Thanks again, this is an awesome lesson. I don't know what happened but I wish your wife the best. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family.
Just found this wonderful tree branch study and can't thank you enough for it. I have a photo that I took of a sleeping snow- covered, climbing rose bush in my garden and this will help me to attempt to paint it. I'm a lover of trees and nature and your tutorials have helped me so much and I'm very grateful. It is now Dec. 2020 and I send all good wishes to you and your family for a happy, safe and joyous Christmas and a blessed 2021. Many thanks, Steve!
I also love trees in the winter. I took some pictures of interesting structures at the base if the trunk of a tree, just where the large extending branches protrude. The color and texture if the bark were beautiful and interesting. I wish I knew how to create it. This was a nice study. Best wishes to you, your wife and a Merry Christmas, and the Lord's blessings to all.
Thank you for giving your time to do this video I learned so much, especially to see the ordinary through different eyes. May you and your family have a blessed Christmas.
Fantastic Steve! I have a gorgeous tree out my studio window that I am excited to do some studies of now as a break over Christmas from all my portraits! Have a great Christmas! All the best to you and your family in the New Year!
Wow, what a lesson. I have been working on trees and branches for months. They still look kind of artificial to me. Thanks so much for this tutorial and approach. Greetings from Frankfurt and Merry Christmas!
In the 60’s we did this with Pantone markers and a box of Pantone color sheets (250 as I remember) to practice composition and mutable color(Albers). 2 semesters worth. Lol
I've seen people go out with casein and paint plein aire. They say they've been watching too much James Gurney. After we had a blizzard last week here in Finland, I felt driven to go out with my camera to capture some winter scenes. Particularly for reference. I realised I paid so much attention to all the trees and the branches - how the snow how fallen on them, how the wind had built a snow cover on the wind side and how water hade frozen as drops all over some trees. I think I've been watching too much Steve Mitchell. :D
Thank you for this video and for all you have done under this year. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for you and your wife ad family!!!! I see you next year!
Hey tripped over your channel you make it looks so easy! I take care 9f my mom with dementia and i desperately need an outlet. I want to learn water color so bad ..
Very clear and instructive, thank you. Just so you know, 5 years on, this lesson/demonstration is still valuable and relevant to those of us trying to improve and get inspiration from the lessons.
Wonderful to watch them come alive.
I pray your wife recovers swiftly from her surgery. Merry Christmas to you and your family.....and Reese. Thank you for giving us your excellent videos.
BEST WISHES 4 WIFE, prayers R with U folks!
wow, the first video I've seen featuring the golden spiral, I know it well through photography, great video
Beautiful branches! This will be very helpful for the painting I was drawing today! Great instruction! Thank you for sharing!!!
I loved this video! BRANCHES! YES!!! ❤️
Thank you so much for your videos. I've learned a LOT from them.
Thank you for a wonderful Christmas present. When I watched this video the first time I went out in my own little yard and took pictures of the winter trees there. They are waiting for me to put the holidays away. Now, Christmas morning, I treated myself to another viewing of your video before the house gets crazy. Your quiet voice is a meditative way to start the day. I'm hoping your wife is doing well, recovering nicely. And I hope you are, too. The Good Lord knows it is often just as hard for family, especially spouses, when they watch their loved one struggle. Peace be with you, and Merry Christmas!
Thank you for all your wonderful demos this year Steve. All the best for your wife's recovery and have a happy and peaceful New Year
Loved watching this one , I think they are beautiful. Thank you!
Oooh, gosh those are so pretty. This video did a lot for me. Now I know I’m not looney for staring at trees.
I love trees in spring after a rain that turns the trees & branches very dark just as they're about to leaf out. That very pale green of the just emerging leaves & dark wood is a beautiful contrast. Thanks for all you share.
Blessings and prayers to your wife and family . Have a wonderful Holiday! Thanks for all you do!
I love looking at trees and their patterns in the winter. Thank you for the video. I hope your family is doing well.
I’m glad your wife is on the mend and I thank you for this study! Merry Christmas!
It makes great sense to choose one tree in a landscape to detail and make unique. Thanks for the tip.
Oh, Steve, one of my two favorite subjects, birds and trees!!!! What a Christmas gift you have given me!! Thanks so much. I will watch this one several times, and I have learned so much from it about watching the way the branches grow. I love to study tree branches, too. I hope you and your dear wife and family have a very blessed Christmas and a wonderful New Year. God bless you all, and thank you for your wonderful teaching. You will never know how much you mean to this old painter down in Savannah!
Love these studies, thank you Steve!
I got alot outta this Steve. Thank you!
Awesome!
Thank you for sharing.
The top two remind me of days gone by lazing on the grass and looking up in awe at the intricate complexity of nature.
Good memories.
Great studies.
Yesterday I went to the art store and bought Arches Cold Press watercolor paper. Today I fell in love. I fell in love with Arches. Thank you for all your teaching. I’ve learned so much. Have a great Christmas.
All of your videos are so fantastic and I'm learning so much! I've always loved the patterns of leafless branches against the sky in Winter. I haven't been able to successfully express what I'm seeing before now. I bought a rigger and it practically paints the branches itself! Your instruction makes watercolor painting a lot less overwhelming for me. Thank you so much!
I'm a beginner drawer. Trees are fascinatingto me. However in the summer, they're all big lumps, hard to tell where the branches are. This is the first winter after I started to draw and boy, all the tree branches are so interesteting and unique. Like you said in the video, I take photos of them and try to use them as refereences. Thanks a million for this wonderful video! Peace!
Merry Christmas Steve to you and your family. Prayers for your wife. God bless you!
How have I missed this video for so long? I started wc about 1 1/2 years ago, independently did a few branch paintings and I'm certainly encouraged to continue on from this excellent video. You are the best, Steve! If I wasn't in the red I'd be a patron.
Merry Christmas! I'm praying for you and your wife as she recovers. Thank you for being such an inspiration to me, and for guiding me in my watercolor adventures! I can believe how much my painting has improved , between the techniques and using equipment and paper that you have demonstrated. God continue to bless you! ❤
I love your branch studies. I was thinking that your studies would look nice with the whole page framed and hung for people to see. It is a great example of how a number of small sketches can be used to make a completed work of art.
Could not believe you were doing a demo on precisely the topic of tree branches that I have tried to master for the last few months!! BRILLIANT! Thank you Steve for this watercolour Christmas present. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and good wishes for your wife. 🎄🙏🎨
Thanks for your wonderful tutorials this past year. So interesting and informative. Praying for healing for your wife. Merry Christmas and a new year filled with God’s blessings to you and your family.
Merry Christmas, Steve. This video is a special present to me. Bless you. I love figure drawing, painting but I’ve moved far out in a rural area and have run low out of money for gas and drawing meet ups. Can’t go to the coffees shop to draw people. So now I’m doing the trees and landscape. I really love it! I love the beauty of the trees and trying to capture it. Landscapes are new for me. Plus I follow my cats around and try to draw them while they are moving. Also the sheep and chickens. 😄
Love your teachings.
Wishing your wife a full and speedy recovery, Steve, and you and your family a blessed Christmas season. 🤗✨🎨
Thank you Hajra! Right back at ya!
You are getting better and better! Thank you and good wishes for you and your family.
Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a healthy New Year.
Hope your wife gets well soon.
Thank you for gifting us with your gift all year.
Absolutely gorgeous! Hope your wife is having a good recovery. I missed hearing about her operation. Hope you and all of your loved ones are having a wonderful 2019 and that the year will be a wonderful one for you!
I loved the exercise on tree branches. Sometime, can you do another video like this on painting different types of rocks? Also, different kinds of flowing water?
Loved this one, I have a photo on my phone as my backdrop. It was taken in early spring, bare trees set against a blue sky. I too love the branches.
Steve, I’m in awe at your talents- so easy to listen to and inspiring to watch. Thank you! Blessings of healing to your wife and peace and joy to yourself at Christmas.
I can tell you love trees. You render them beautifully. Makes a very interesting piece. Thank you.
I love this video! Trees, foxes, and sunflower are just lovely.
I have watched this video again, Steve, having saved it on my watch again list. I loved it so much! I really love to draw and paint trees and this one is such an inspiration to me. Thanks again, Steve.
Just wonderful all your videos we cobble them up one after the other many thanks
This is so amazing, Steve!
And hope your wife is doing much better. Sending love and positive vibes to you!
I think it's great this video with your four explorations and comments about it. I love watching and listening to it. I try to take your teachings 😁🤩.
I loved this video! I must now try my own as I look at tree branches all the time. Great instruction.
I am sorry to hear about your wife . I hope she will have a speedy recovery and she will be in my prayers.
Really lovely and totally enjoyable to watch! TY!
Thank you! I really learned a great deal. I hope your wife is on the mend and that you and your family have a Happy, Healthy Holidays.
Thank you and have a very good Christmas.
Wow!!! Love your tree branches and woody roots. So beautiful. The uh look so realistic. Thank you. I love trees and struggle so trying to paint or draw them. You make it look so easy and I know it is not.
Merry Christmas and prayers for your wife. Love Reese and your videos .
Enjoyed your branch studies Steve! Trees are always interesting, most people don't realize that they are essentially "solar collectors" and each species has its own solution as to how to collect the most light. From the trunk to the primary limbs to the secondary branches all the way out to the twigs and leaves each species has a "basic pattern" that it grows to. From what I have seen in art class, I think that people have problems drawing trees because the don't follow any basic pattern and their "generic" trees look "odd". Putting oak branches on a birch trunk or if the fan-out of the twigs is wrong it will not ring true with the viewer - they may not "consciously" know the what is wrong but they will feel something is not right. Kinda like having conflicting light sources or a slightly twisted perspective. Its my favorite time of year to go out and study naked trees :-) ATB Steve! Hank
This is an awesome lesson! I noticed in your videos that the trees are especially detailed and lively, very organic! You make these things we take for granted so interesting. Thank you for sharing!
I'm simply love your artwork- trees , branches, rocks .... Best wishes from India!
Thanks so much for this. Speedy recovery to your wife and a Merry Christmas and blessed New Year!
Sending lots of well wishes for your wife and warm greetings for you and your family this Christmas.
Best wishes to you and your wife, hope she feels better soon. Have a great and blessed Christmas Steve. ...Reese too!
Wonderful video! I am a lover of trees for the reasons you describe. Branches offer endless possibilities for design and elegance. I work in pen and ink and take hundreds of tree photos. MI love tramping through woods discovering drawing possibilities. Merry Xmas and Happy New Year and many rewarding drawing and painting adventures.
I put some masking fluid in a small oiler bottle with a tiny tip ... works pretty well for fine lines
Beautiful branch study! I'll definitely use some of the techniques shown. Love trees and unusual branch shapes & designs. Thanks for your great videos.
Love these. Can’t wait to see more from you. Thanks Steve.
Wishing you the best for your wife, Steve! All the best for the New Year! Thank you for sharing your amazing art with us. :D
All the best to your wife, you and your family! Thank you so much for the video also. Merry Christmas and a Happy/Healthy New Year. It will be great to break these up as referral videos.
Most excellent, fabulous tutorial. Thank you Steve. Wishing a speedy recovery to the Mrs. and a very Happy Holiday to you and the family. See you next year.
Thank you for another wonderful video. I learn so much from you. Have a wonderful Christmas, and all of your followers will look forward to seeing you in 2019!
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing!
Wonderful, I enjoyed learning this.
Two, two uses in one - what old commercial was that? Driving me nuts trying to remember. I loved your study and especially the talking during your work - so informative. Merry Christmas and a Healthy New Year.
Double mint gum 😄
I am so excited to practice what you are showing us Steve! I have avoided branch studies, as it looks so intricate. I appreciate your observations and style so much! Merry Christmas, and many prayers sent for your wife’s healing recovery!😉
Wishing you and your family health and happiness over this holiday season ..I love your tutorials....you make learning from you a joy.Thank you.
I love your work..demos..and refreshing manner..God bless you and your family and Merry Christmas from Ohio
Thank you for your video and art design explanation. I always wanted to take an art class and feel like your explanations were informative. I will try to listen to other of your videos and try your watercolor suggestions.
Wow. I really like how you sketched and used the thumbnail compositions! At first, I didn't understand their purpose. Your branches are beautiful. I love your photos with the greens behind the bare grayish branches - the contrast makes those branches pop. Yep, I have pulled over to take pictures of trees, as well. Last year, "something" told me to photograph a tree at the end of our road - there was nothing really special about it but I took the photo. A bad storm destroyed it about two weeks later. At least, I have a record that it existed. Thanks again, this is an awesome lesson. I don't know what happened but I wish your wife the best. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family.
Thank-you for the reminder on how important little studies are. Happy new year
Just found this wonderful tree branch study and can't thank you enough for it. I have a photo that I took of a sleeping snow- covered, climbing rose bush in my garden and this will help me to attempt to paint it. I'm a lover of trees and nature and your tutorials have helped me so much and I'm very grateful. It is now Dec. 2020 and I send all good wishes to you and your family for a happy, safe and joyous Christmas and a blessed 2021. Many thanks, Steve!
Nice!
Thank you for taking the time to share this study. Very helpful.
Wishing you and yours a blessed Christmas.
I also love trees in the winter. I took some pictures of interesting structures at the base if the trunk of a tree, just where the large extending branches protrude. The color and texture if the bark were beautiful and interesting. I wish I knew how to create it. This was a nice study. Best wishes to you, your wife and a Merry Christmas, and the Lord's blessings to all.
Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Steve thank you for all you do .
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Man I needed that study, fantastic Christmas gift . A big thank you and a healthy merry Christmas to you Steve and family. 👏👏👏👏👍🇨🇦
Another brilliant lesson with Steve, thanks from down under. Loren:)
Great lesson! Thank you.
Yeah, I've been waiting for your new video. Your trees are always wonderful. Thank you:)
Well wishes to your wife and off course wishing you a merry christmas!
Thank you for giving your time to do this video I learned so much, especially to see the ordinary through different eyes. May you and your family have a blessed Christmas.
Fantastic Steve! I have a gorgeous tree out my studio window that I am excited to do some studies of now as a break over Christmas from all my portraits! Have a great Christmas! All the best to you and your family in the New Year!
Wow, what a lesson. I have been working on trees and branches for months. They still look kind of artificial to me. Thanks so much for this tutorial and approach.
Greetings from Frankfurt and Merry Christmas!
In the 60’s we did this with Pantone markers and a box of Pantone color sheets (250 as I remember) to practice composition and mutable color(Albers). 2 semesters worth. Lol
I am studying tree watercolors and this video is exactly what I was hoping for. Thank you! Happy Holidays 😊🌟🎄
Love it, thank you, Steve, and sending holiday best wishes to you and yours.
I've seen people go out with casein and paint plein aire. They say they've been watching too much James Gurney.
After we had a blizzard last week here in Finland, I felt driven to go out with my camera to capture some winter scenes. Particularly for reference. I realised I paid so much attention to all the trees and the branches - how the snow how fallen on them, how the wind had built a snow cover on the wind side and how water hade frozen as drops all over some trees.
I think I've been watching too much Steve Mitchell. :D
Thank you for this video and for all you have done under this year. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for you and your wife ad family!!!! I see you next year!
Awesome video, great teacher!
That was lovely. Very inspiring and informative. The subject was so simple but the results were glorious 😍
Hey tripped over your channel you make it looks so easy! I take care 9f my mom with dementia and i desperately need an outlet. I want to learn water color so bad ..
Lovely!
I thank you so much for this wonderful Video, it’s such a great pleasure to watch you painting. Merry Christmas - I wish you all the best! ❤️
Really useful and inspiring for my trees project
merry X mas to you and your family. God bless you.