Pine trees can be painted during any season and at any phase in their energy cycle.
Acrylic paints can be mixed with flood and applied Exceedingly contrasting surfaces including paper, wood or canvas. For an practice in creating bloodless values from paper, you might consult representation the pine tree on Bristol board or watercolour paper. When mixed with water, acrylic emulsion handles still affection watercolour apart from that once the medium dries, it remains laborious and Testament not blend with a moment manipulate of distemper.
Instructions
Drawing
1. Haul pine trees with a pencil in your sketchbook. Erase whatever you don't akin. Or you can always turn to a latest phase and derivation another sketch.
2. Trail the leading Timber as a round cylinder and the bunches of needles as one three-dimensional Bulk.
3. Attract a scarce close-up sketches of the branches or pine cones.
4. Generate indefinite detailed sketches until drawing the tree seems natural.
Painting
5. Make the preliminary sketch on watercolor paper or Bristol board with the pencil. Use the eraser as needed. Let the tree take up most of the space on the paper without worrying about detail.
6. Wet the tree areas with clear water and then fill in the trunk and branches with a mixture of burnt umber and burnt sierra. Mix the paint with ample amounts of water.
7. Wet the foliage area and fill these areas with sap green. You can mix the sap green with a little yellow ocher if you like.
8. Do a quick coverage of the foreground with a wet wash. Add a wet wash of cerulean blue. Use clear blue cerulean, if the skies are cloudless, or a blue mixture if skies are hazy.11.
10. Wet the sky area with a wide brush. If the weather is cloudy or hazy you can use dirty water to prep the area. Try and match the color of the foreground with whatever paint you have.9. Repeat for the background forest area.
Add details to all areas of the painting except the sky.
