Birch trees
Illustration is a relaxing still agitative pastime due to you can coin the universe that you hunger on the plenty of canvas. Depending on the type of scene that you fancy to dye, you can assemble endless matters such as mountains, rivers, waterfalls or plants. Shrubs and trees are recurrently an integral department of any outlook representation for they can be cut of the backdrop or they can part centre event. A birch tree is a stunning Appendix to any illustration.
Instructions
1. Interpret the shape of a birch tree. Sketch a birch tree so that you can invest in a air for the format of the branches. Indication the shape of the tree Timber as it reaches toward the sky. Scan the smallest details such as the contrivance branches extended from the Timber and taper into smaller branches until they pass into twigs. Trail various birch trees until you are comfortable with its draw.
Dilute your acrylic paints with water until they are watercolor consistency. Use colors such as ultramarine blue, alizarin crimson, burnt sienna or rose madder to add color to your tree.5. Use a flat brush and pick up the three colors you want to use.
3. Sketch the birch tree on the canvas manufacture as many twists and turns in the trunk as you desire.
4.2. Indication the colours of the Timber and the bark as they are infrequently dependable a pure bloodless. Many times the Timber Testament match colours from at odds sources such as broad lily-livered from the sunlight, shades of half-formed from leaves, or shades of grey from a cloudy sky.
Paint a multicolor wash on the trunk and branches of your tree. Allow the colors to blend together on your canvas for an artistic effect. The texture of a birch tree is very rough so if the paint flows outside of the lines slightly, its even better because it will look more realistic.
6. Apply a puddle of paint in the color that you desire to one side of the trunk of the birch tree. Use the side of the credit card to drag the puddle of paint towards the middle section of the tree and to the other side. Wipe the credit card with a paper towel after each stroke that you make. Repeat the same technique on the entire trunk to give the tree a sense of roundness and texture.
7. Paint in the dark lines or markings in the tree trunk using raw umber or raw sienna. Curve the strokes so they look like they are going around the tree.
8. Use dark burnt umber to deepen the color of the markings you have created in step 7. Allow the painting to dry.
9. Continue to use the flat brush but use an up-and-down stroke to make shadows on the tree wherever you feel they should be. Paint colors such as ultramarine blue or cobalt blue work well.
10. Paint leaves with a round brush if you desire. Use different shades of green paint to create the body of the leaves but avoid making individual leaves. Highlight some of the clumps of leaves to give them a sense of depth.
