How To Paint Watercolor Trees

Here s how to paint a tree in watercolour.
How to paint watercolor trees. Trees are mostly observed as masses of form instead of a collection of tiny leaves. The lesson covers painting a winter tree and summer tree with thick foliage. The lesson covers painting a winter tree and summer tree with thick foliage. To overcome the temptation to do this squint at the tree or tree reference image until you only see large blurred areas of colour.
How to paint trees with watercolor. While you don t need to define every single leaf you can certainly add some leaf detail in various places. And do you wonder what technique to use to capture these important elements of a landscape in all their glory. Usually i paint small subjects larger than life.
Trying to paint every individual leaf is frustrating and pointless. Common beginner mistakes when painting trees trying to paint every individual leaf. We can clearly see the leaves on the tree in the image on the left. The details are removed leaving simple shapes of value and color.
Sometimes though i like to mix things up and do things the other way around scaling down bigger subjects to. Paint a watercolor tree step by step starting with a drawing on paper masking some whites and painting the leaves with watercolor.