How To Paint Watercolor Trees

Trees are mostly observed as masses of form instead of a collection of tiny leaves.

How to paint watercolor trees. Usually i paint small subjects larger than life. Trying to paint every individual leaf is frustrating and pointless. The lesson covers painting a winter tree and summer tree with thick foliage.

Sometimes though i like to mix things up and do things the other way around scaling down bigger subjects to. To overcome the temptation to do this squint at the tree or tree reference image until you only see large blurred areas of colour. Do you ever wish you could paint realistic trees and grass in watercolour.

While you don t need to define every single leaf you can certainly add some leaf detail in various places. Here s how to paint a tree in watercolour. Paint a watercolor tree step by step starting with a drawing on paper masking some whites and painting the leaves with watercolor.

The lesson covers painting a winter tree and summer tree with thick foliage. We can clearly see the leaves on the tree in the image on the left. And do you wonder what technique to use to capture these important elements of a landscape in all their glory.

The image on the right however is how our mind should see the tree in order to paint it. The details are removed leaving simple shapes of value and color.