Great tutorial. What colours to use and how to paint the trees changes depends on the country that you live in too. I paint Australian trees. The trees are less dense. Our sky tends to be bright unless it is overcast.
Warning! Please ensure you don’t have video muted when watching first part or you might think Jason’s talent is somewhat limited! I think he’s enjoying doing initial painting waaaay too much!! Seriously good tutorial though. Thank you Jason!
I like your tree . I’ve been painting for 23 years and familiar with everything else I understand you’re teaching and I like your style. And believe me after 23 years you can still screw things up! It is very hard for a beginner to wrap his head around all the things involved in painting. Just keep going, right! Thanks for the video. I really enjoyed it and watching for more.
Great pts about values & color saturation, adding the sky holes made the tree look much more realistic, it was too solid in its form; trees need to breathe, let the wind pass through. Thanks for educ. vid!
In defense of Bob Ross and his painting style...He had to paint an 18 x 24 in less than a half hour...from beginning to end. Including his signature. So the trees you were painting were done after all the background behind them were finished. They were painted on top of the sky, the clouds, the mountains, the fields, forests, and water. Sky holes were done automatically. Branches could be made with an airy look instead of patches of color...and didn't have to be done with a fan brush.
I learned a lot from Bob Ross and I have never seen him doing what you are sayin and doing about him! Perhaps you are talking about another painter and NOT bob Ross! I am a novice and I NEVER EVER started to paint the same as you do in this video! My trees starts once I am happy with the "painted" back ground!
Hahahaha, I am a beginner who just started on and off for a month. And you are spot on I made almost all the mistakes you mentioned 😂😂 (well except the sky I just know it isn’t straight blue it is more white than blue) I am not ashamed of myself though, I noticed I made these mistakes and then I go around to look for ways to fix it and I found your channel! Quite wanted to give this another go although my technique might be hindering me from repeating what I see here. But at the end it’s about trying and practicing right!
Amen!! Nobody gets it correct the first time. I made these exact mistakes many, many times myself, which is why I was able to do the bad painting (just repeated my own mistakes). Keep going!!
You had me laughing so hard I had tears! I'm going to paint my tree green! Ha! I'm not knocking Bob R.either - I saw my first show in July and he did inspire me to paint. But, by August I knew I wasn't really learning to paint. I would always have to use his technique and I wouldn't grow. So thanks again for another great video! Now I'm learning to paint correctly. No more knock your socks off blue skies! Ha!
It took me 7 wasted years of stubbornly trying to just learn by doing on my own... got literally nowhere and if anything was getting worse... Until I watched a few UA-cam channels and tutorials .. now, in just the last few months I've improved SOOOO much and learned SOOOO much more than ever would have on my own. The channels that helped me the most are M Stewart Painting, Stay Creative With Ryan O'Rourke and colors by Felix.. with Felix.
I teach two days a week and have yet to see anything like you are showing and yes I do use some of the Ross and Bill Alexander, just to get them started and have some fun, so far they have done a pretty good job and had lots of fun and a learning experience at the same time.
Thank you!! I poke a little fun at Bob as do a number of other professional artists. But he was a really nice and generous guy (with a cool hairdo). His approach is great for beginners and inspiring people who want to get a painting done quick. I always say that you can start with Bob but you shouldn't end with Bob; if you are serious about landscape painting that is. Thanks for watching!
Because when you try to paint dark paint over light paint that is wet, the light paint will mess things up. There are other reasons also, too long to discuss here.
I started painting woth bob ross. He was amazing. I eventually reached out to other painters, learning different techniques, but carried many of his teaching along with me. I don't agree with his criticisms of bob ross. Never saw him do a sky like this man said. Or a tree. You can learn from many different artists, then develop your own techniques.
I've been an artist now for about 1 year. that bad example genuinely looks like some of my paintings. I like that you keep things simple and focused on the quintessential lesson, and I really learned something very important today, and will try to apply those things the next time I grab a brush. And yes, I am in love with my fan brush :D Thank you very much, greetings from good ol' germany
Jason, I noticed in the reference photo I took (and I realize a camera lens can distort values and edges) that many of the light facing leaves were lighter in value than the ground plane, confirmed by converting the photo to black and white. Maybe this was because in the reference storm clouds were approaching and the planes of the leaves were turned a bit from the ground, but in any case they were receiving more light than much of the ground. In this case would you paint the values as you see, or would you darken the leaves to keep the logical structure of plane/value/light source?
Dark storm clouds and trees illuminated by a low sun are an anomaly. I would do some studies both one based on what you think you are seeing and another based on the principles and see what looks best, not discounting the possibility that you may have to combine elements from both in your final.
Clear and succinct principles. I have often ie all the time used a touch of red to neutralise/dull greens but I'll try burnt sienna as I can see how it would also help overall colour harmony if you're using burnt sienna in other parts of the painting.
Very helpful tutorial. I love Bob Ross. He introduced me to painting. Then I found a local class. I showed up with my giant brushes & actually thought I was introducing my instructor to a new way to paint. Lol Fortunately for me, I fell in love with oil painting & soaked up everything I could find. I read books, took classes but mostly I practiced. The more I learn about it, the more I realize there is to learn. Thank you for sharing a great lesson.
Thank you! I liked Bob also. Some people get really upset when I poke a little fun about him but he did inspire a lot of artists, myself included when I was a kid.
Am so happy I found you. Am 80 yrs old with cognitive issues. Had giving up up painting for several years due to trimmers. Have watched all day. Had been thinking was like the Bob Ross's work years ago. Just now heard Bob's name. Ha! So hope can find you over & over! Thank you very much! Smiles!
Jason - best tree video I've seen. I've been practicing our steps and I'm happy how the trees are turning out. Hey you sound like where I'm from - back in Minnesota.
Thanks James! Yes, I'm a Minnesota native. Love my home state of mosquitos and lakes, but don't miss everything being made from cream of mushroom soup.
Ha!... your video just fixed a huge problem... i was getting the tones wrong between air land and tree... and your lesson was just the fix i needed. Thank you Sir.
Hi Jason, I was wondering about distant trees (trees in the background). As you go back, the values get closer. When you said to make sure that the value of the trees are darker than the ground and sky, you meant only trees in the foreground, right? That doesn't apply to middle and background?
Yes it does also apply to the middle and background as well. There are always caveats, such as dark stromy skies, yellow autumn leaves, etc. But in most cases you need to key in the sky with the rest of the landscape, which means that the sky is usually a lot lighter in value than what most people think.
Regarding soft edges..vs hard edges. Can you please mention the most appropriate brushes ? Thank you. And best brush for sky, plus thickness of paint. We don’t want a lumpy sky.
Hey Jason, you were right! This IS super helpful! I'm going to slow down the playback speed and pause if I need to so that I can try painting the tree along with you . Your comment about the BR estate suing you cracked me up :). You say in the video there's more that you could have done on the shadow side and I wonder if you meant painting the sky reflecting on parts of the shadowed foliage... I'll see if I can figure it out. ANYway, THANKS SO MUCH for suggesting I watch this! It's REALLY great!
Hi Roxanne, so glad this helped! Yes, with the shadow side I could have added some ever-so-slightly lighter, cooler values. But you have to be careful so as to not destroy the value structure that is already established. Many fine trees can be painted without this, and if the trees are small in the landscape (or if I'm just doing a quick sketch/demo) I may just leave those values out. However, if the tree is the main subject matter and I have the time, I will most likely try to add them in for increased interest.
Hi Mark, I do live, online painting classes. Right now there may be an opening for the October session. Here is the link to sign up for the waiting list: jasontako.carrd.co/
Great video and info... first video of yours I've seen... I too, grew up with Bob ross... and the amount of innocent and on point shh. It talking you did was had me crackin up! I hope you're still making content like this because you have a new subscriber right here!
I am more in seascapes and have a different pallet but after doing a test of mixing viridian and all my other colors there was only one mix different from phtalo green. Mainly you can get to the point with phtalo green. Budget matters, as well as learning mixes of your particular greens.
The best tutorial on painting trees ever! Thank you!
That is very kind, thank you!!
thanks for the tips, gotta say I like the "bad" painting more though, very intriguing movement going on there!!
Great tutorial. What colours to use and how to paint the trees changes depends on the country that you live in too. I paint Australian trees. The trees are less dense. Our sky tends to be bright unless it is overcast.
Warning! Please ensure you don’t have video muted when watching first part or you might think Jason’s talent is somewhat limited! I think he’s enjoying doing initial painting waaaay too much!!
Seriously good tutorial though. Thank you Jason!
Thanks so much!!
I learned more from this tutorial than I have in ten years of other landscape tutorials. Honestly. Thank you!
That's awesome! So glad it helped! Thanks for watching!
Best laugh I've had all day.
I like your tree . I’ve been painting for 23 years and familiar with everything else I understand you’re teaching and I like your style.
And believe me after 23 years you can still screw things up!
It is very hard for a beginner to wrap his head around all the things involved in painting. Just keep going, right! Thanks for the video. I really enjoyed it and watching for more.
He's painting that tree and I'm like yeah that looks pretty good I'd be proud of that 😅
We need to elevate the general public's Bob Ross standard of painting with simple technique, but lacking in thought.
Let It Tree
preferred the first one.......... no more lessons please
Not sure if you realized... you can choose to watch what you want, and not watch what you don't want.
Great pts about values & color saturation, adding the sky holes made the tree look much more realistic, it was too solid in its form; trees need to breathe, let the wind pass through. Thanks for educ. vid!
Thanks. Remember, this was not meant to be a great tree painting, just a quick illustration of concepts.
This was super helpful!!! I struggle with trees. Going to paint a tree later today to practice everything you said!
That's awesome Eric! So glad it helped! Next Saturday I'm doing a plein air painting of an autumn tree just turning color.
I dunno, I kind of like the bad tree. As an abstract. I can’t call it a tree, but it somehow works
Why did you not paint the whole sky first then paint the tree over top of it?
I was thinking the same thing
In defense of Bob Ross and his painting style...He had to paint an 18 x 24 in less than a half hour...from beginning to end. Including his signature. So the trees you were painting were done after all the background behind them were finished. They were painted on top of the sky, the clouds, the mountains, the fields, forests, and water. Sky holes were done automatically. Branches could be made with an airy look instead of patches of color...and didn't have to be done with a fan brush.
Bob was great... if you primary goal is to get an 18x24 canvas done in less than a half hour.
I learned a lot from Bob Ross and I have never seen him doing what you are sayin and doing about him! Perhaps you are talking about another painter and NOT bob Ross!
I am a novice and I NEVER EVER started to paint the same as you do in this video! My trees starts once I am happy with the "painted" back ground!
Bob Ross' paintings make my toes curl - ugliness always makes me cringe !
Everyone has different taste and there are different levels of art work, the important thing, I believe , is to enjoy what you’re doing.
Man, the tree darker value than the grass bit just saved my painting! I readily kowtow in gratitude :)
So glad it helped! Thanks for watching!
Hahahaha, I am a beginner who just started on and off for a month. And you are spot on I made almost all the mistakes you mentioned 😂😂 (well except the sky I just know it isn’t straight blue it is more white than blue)
I am not ashamed of myself though, I noticed I made these mistakes and then I go around to look for ways to fix it and I found your channel! Quite wanted to give this another go although my technique might be hindering me from repeating what I see here. But at the end it’s about trying and practicing right!
Amen!! Nobody gets it correct the first time. I made these exact mistakes many, many times myself, which is why I was able to do the bad painting (just repeated my own mistakes). Keep going!!
He said, #1 mistake about four times as he painted - Just what 'is' the NUMBER ONE Mistake.. ?
I just took a couple paintings off the wall, for correction
Awesome! I hope the video helps and your painting turns out great!
You had me laughing so hard I had tears! I'm going to paint my tree green! Ha! I'm not knocking Bob R.either - I saw my first show in July and he did inspire me to paint. But, by August I knew I wasn't really learning to paint. I would always have to use his technique and I wouldn't grow. So thanks again for another great video! Now I'm learning to paint correctly. No more knock your socks off blue skies! Ha!
That's great Lynette! Bob inspired me as a kid, and how could you not love his hair! LOL! Thanks again for watching and I'm happy you are learning!
It took me 7 wasted years of stubbornly trying to just learn by doing on my own... got literally nowhere and if anything was getting worse... Until I watched a few UA-cam channels and tutorials .. now, in just the last few months I've improved SOOOO much and learned SOOOO much more than ever would have on my own. The channels that helped me the most are M Stewart Painting, Stay Creative With Ryan O'Rourke and colors by Felix.. with Felix.
Some good and bad in this tutorial.trees in other parts of the world can be much darker than the ground especially in the UK.
I took me 2 years to get over Bob Ross's style.
He can be an inspiring place to start, but not a good place to stay.
❤جميل
SO GREAT to see the mistakes first!
Thank you!!
Bob Ross teaches amators to createin the simplest way their own masterpives. Bob Ross private paintings I believe are very artistic .
The second one was much better.
Thanks!!!
You got an impressionist tree going on there! LOL. THANKS FOR THE TIPS.
Love the smurf blue sky in the demo…😂
Excellent lesson - I never thought of using a pallet knife to do leaves. Thanks - appreciated !
Sure thing!! Thanks for watching!
I teach two days a week and have yet to see anything like you are showing and yes I do use some of the Ross and Bill Alexander, just to get them started and have some fun, so far they have done a pretty good job and had lots of fun and a learning experience at the same time.
Thank you!! I poke a little fun at Bob as do a number of other professional artists. But he was a really nice and generous guy (with a cool hairdo). His approach is great for beginners and inspiring people who want to get a painting done quick. I always say that you can start with Bob but you shouldn't end with Bob; if you are serious about landscape painting that is. Thanks for watching!
Im watching this over and over its the best tree video
This is one of the very best tree painting videos out there. Thank you Jason!
Why not paint the sky first and the tree on top?
Because when you try to paint dark paint over light paint that is wet, the light paint will mess things up. There are other reasons also, too long to discuss here.
Thanks!
Awesome video! Thank you! You have a great way of teaching.
Thank you kindly!!
Great lesson. I bought Carlson's book and have been trying to put those principles to work. Thanks for the practical reinforcement.
I started painting woth bob ross. He was amazing. I eventually reached out to other painters, learning different techniques, but carried many of his teaching along with me. I don't agree with his criticisms of bob ross. Never saw him do a sky like this man said. Or a tree. You can learn from many different artists, then develop your own techniques.
You need to go beyond mere techniques in order to become a good artist.
Loved it. Great to learn some basics !!
Your ugly tree looks better than my beautiful tree😂
Thanks so much for sharing this! Very helpful
Thank you! Glad it helped!!
I've been an artist now for about 1 year. that bad example genuinely looks like some of my paintings.
I like that you keep things simple and focused on the quintessential lesson, and I really learned something very important today, and will try to apply those things the next time I grab a brush.
And yes, I am in love with my fan brush :D
Thank you very much, greetings from good ol' germany
Thank you and I'm glad you found this helpful! Nothing wrong with fan brushes. I now use them myself here and there. Keep painting!
Hi! I did this tutorial and I think my tree turned out really good! Thanks again! Happy Thanksgiving! Ps- no more lollipops! Ha!
That's awesome Lynette! So good to hear that it helped! Happy Thanksgiving!!
you explain the pallet and how it works for amazing results thsnk you so much awesome vidios 🥰
Thank you very much for watching!
Excellent best tree demo ive seen
Good teaching. Thank you.
Jason, I noticed in the reference photo I took (and I realize a camera lens can distort values and edges) that many of the light facing leaves were lighter in value than the ground plane, confirmed by converting the photo to black and white. Maybe this was because in the reference storm clouds were approaching and the planes of the leaves were turned a bit from the ground, but in any case they were receiving more light than much of the ground. In this case would you paint the values as you see, or would you darken the leaves to keep the logical structure of plane/value/light source?
Dark storm clouds and trees illuminated by a low sun are an anomaly. I would do some studies both one based on what you think you are seeing and another based on the principles and see what looks best, not discounting the possibility that you may have to combine elements from both in your final.
Amazing... thank you. Just found your channel today, but this is so helpful to me and i like your teaching style
So glad it helped! Thanks for watching!
Clear and succinct principles. I have often ie all the time used a touch of red to neutralise/dull greens but I'll try burnt sienna as I can see how it would also help overall colour harmony if you're using burnt sienna in other parts of the painting.
Thanks so much! Good luck with the burnt sienna. I find it really helps for marking natural dark greens.
Easily the best tree tutorial on UA-cam.
That is very kind, thank you!!
This was so very helpful. I love painting landscapes & this has been invaluable. Ill be checking your other videos as well. Fabulous.
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Thank you!!
Valt tegen twee bomen lijken niet op elkaar.
Very helpful tutorial. I love Bob Ross. He introduced me to painting. Then I found a local class. I showed up with my giant brushes & actually thought I was introducing my instructor to a new way to paint. Lol
Fortunately for me, I fell in love with oil painting & soaked up everything I could find. I read books, took classes but mostly I practiced. The more I learn about it, the more I realize there is to learn.
Thank you for sharing a great lesson.
Thank you! I liked Bob also. Some people get really upset when I poke a little fun about him but he did inspire a lot of artists, myself included when I was a kid.
Thanks so much for a great video. I will continue to follow you.
Thanks so much Jeff!!
Had no idea i know so little. Break please!
I understand why you darkened the sky holes but you needed to do that because your tree was overall too solid and too dark.
Nope.
Thank you Jason! Great tutorial! I'm a tree master now 😉
Thanks for watching! So glad it helped!
Looks like at this point…A woman with a baby on her back
Ink blotch test. It wasn't meant to be a great painting, but just to illustrate a concept.
Am so happy I found you. Am 80 yrs old with cognitive issues. Had giving up up painting for several years due to trimmers.
Have watched all day. Had been thinking was like the Bob Ross's work years ago. Just now heard Bob's name. Ha!
So hope can find you over & over!
Thank you very much! Smiles!
Thanks so much! Glad you found this helpful. Hope you can somehow start painting again!
Very helpful, thank you.
Liked your method. Seen other good ways of painting trees, but nice to watch a different way of creating them.
Thanks! There are may different ways of painting trees.
Jason - best tree video I've seen. I've been practicing our steps and I'm happy how the trees are turning out. Hey you sound like where I'm from - back in Minnesota.
Thanks James! Yes, I'm a Minnesota native. Love my home state of mosquitos and lakes, but don't miss everything being made from cream of mushroom soup.
Great class, excellent teacher!
Much appreciated!!
Ha!... your video just fixed a huge problem... i was getting the tones wrong between air land and tree... and your lesson was just the fix i needed. Thank you Sir.
Sure thing! Glad it helped! Thanks for watching!
It's a beautiful tree, but the biggest tree painting mistake is dissing another artist's work.
Hi Jason, I was wondering about distant trees (trees in the background). As you go back, the values get closer. When you said to make sure that the value of the trees are darker than the ground and sky, you meant only trees in the foreground, right? That doesn't apply to middle and background?
Yes it does also apply to the middle and background as well. There are always caveats, such as dark stromy skies, yellow autumn leaves, etc. But in most cases you need to key in the sky with the rest of the landscape, which means that the sky is usually a lot lighter in value than what most people think.
Even though I use acrylic I did pick up some good points.
Thank you!
A very helpful video and a very entertaining one 😂
Glad you found it helpful! Keep painting!!
😢😢overgrown tree
Nice painting. Loved it.
Thanks for watching!!
Thanks so much, sap green or chrome oxide green wich yuo use for painting
Chromium green, but many times I don't even use that, just Viridian with Cadmiums or earth tones.
Excellent content, and I must say I’m guilty of a couple of those errors…..😅 I’ll be taking this on board for the next painting.
Regarding soft edges..vs hard edges. Can you please mention the most appropriate brushes ?
Thank you. And best brush for sky, plus thickness of paint. We don’t want a lumpy sky.
Just starting to paint,I have much to learn. Thank you for sharing love the step by step teaching, it’s exactly what I need.
Great
Hey Jason, you were right! This IS super helpful! I'm going to slow down the playback speed and pause if I need to so that I can try painting the tree along with you . Your comment about the BR estate suing you cracked me up :). You say in the video there's more that you could have done on the shadow side and I wonder if you meant painting the sky reflecting on parts of the shadowed foliage... I'll see if I can figure it out. ANYway, THANKS SO MUCH for suggesting I watch this! It's REALLY great!
Hi Roxanne, so glad this helped! Yes, with the shadow side I could have added some ever-so-slightly lighter, cooler values. But you have to be careful so as to not destroy the value structure that is already established. Many fine trees can be painted without this, and if the trees are small in the landscape (or if I'm just doing a quick sketch/demo) I may just leave those values out. However, if the tree is the main subject matter and I have the time, I will most likely try to add them in for increased interest.
@@JasonTako it helped a lot! Still practicing and trying hard to not overwork it. It's a lot harder to do than it is to just watch! 🙂
Jason…I’m interested in studying under you. Mark
Hi Mark, I do live, online painting classes. Right now there may be an opening for the October session. Here is the link to sign up for the waiting list: jasontako.carrd.co/
Awesome
Perfect video, thank you!
Thanks so much!
Thank you! Like
Thank you!!
Great lesson! Thanks
Thank you!!
Excellent video! Thank you!
Thanks so much!
Wonderful, so helpful. Thanks so much Jason.
Many thanks!!
I finally found the correct way to paint the trees. Thanks - appreciated !
Never knew about the values rule - thanks.
Sure thing! Thanks for watching!
This was SO enlightening. Thank you Jason
Glad it helped! Thanks for watching!
Love your demo. Subscribed!
Thank you!!
How many brushes do you go through painting on sandpaper?
viridian and burnt sienna new to me i like it
Awesome!!
I like the sky hole hack.
Thanks! Hope it works well for you!
Thank you for the tutorial? Super helpful!
Oy, that tree is a disaster! 😅 Painful indeed.
Great video and info... first video of yours I've seen... I too, grew up with Bob ross... and the amount of innocent and on point shh. It talking you did was had me crackin up!
I hope you're still making content like this because you have a new subscriber right here!
Thank you so much!! Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent and well presented
Many thanks!!
EXCELLENT TUTORIAL!
Thank you!!!
Great instruction!
Glad you found it helpful. Thanks for watching!
Oh my gosh, thank you for this video, I have been wondering how to add apertures in without making a muddy mess every time.
Thanks for watching!! Glad it helped!
viridian expensive paint .. :D god job .
Expensive but good paint. Utretch oil colors are good and reasonably priced. Thanks for watching!
I am more in seascapes and have a different pallet but after doing a test of mixing viridian and all my other colors there was only one mix different from phtalo green. Mainly you can get to the point with phtalo green. Budget matters, as well as learning mixes of your particular greens.
Also I use two more cadmium colors that probably cost even more than buying viridian. Just work forward what is best for you.
quality tutorial.
Thank you very much!
Boy, that came at just right time
I kinda like your painting .