Painting a tree in watercolor is a great way to practice before you can paint a forest or landscape. The shape of the tree is very diverse; therefore, when we learn how to draw a tree, we must know the characteristics of the type of tree that we want to draw. In the tutorial below, the painter completes the big tree step by step with watercolor.
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Necessary Materials
You can go to your local art materials supplies to choose the materials that best suit your budget.
Paper: Arches Cold-press 300gsm; Brush: Detail Paint Brush; Color: Olive Green, Cadmium Orange, Sepia, Burnt sienna, Hooker’s Green
1. Begin by painting the foliage of the right half using Olive green.
2. Continue working on the foliage. Note that keep some white areas on the paper. Paint from top to bottom and from right to left.
3. For the dark area on the left, add a little Hooker’s Green and Cadmium Orange to the previous mixture.Â
4. Finish the dark part on the left wet-on-wet, and with several small touches suggest the small shadows between the leaves.
5. Continue to paint the tree trunk using Sepia
6. Paint the shadow of the trunk with a mixture of Burnt sienna and Sepia
7. Paint the trunk and add several branches below the foliage.
8. Paint the several branches among the leaves all over the tree. Finish the work by finalizing the form of the leaves on the left; then, adding small touches of green all over the treetop to express the areas of light and shadow.
NOTE
Remember that each kind of tree has its own specific shape and color that differentiate it from the rest, so the mixture of colors and different hues is basic when it comes to painting them.