
Learn to create a watercolor trilogy of tree paintings by building on palm and pine tree techniques, with a step-by-step background and painting process, explanation, and mistakes as learning opportunities.
Create a watercolor trilogy exploring blue, green, and warm colors. Embrace the watercolor magic that changes on its own, and leave white space for balance.
Learn to paint a palm tree in watercolor using layering and blending, apply darker color at the bottom for depth, add texture to avoid flatness, and plan layers for sunlight.
Paint an autumn poplar in watercolor using layered red, bronze, yellow, and orange with greens to build texture and depth, then add a brown trunk and ground.
Assess the paintings by examining edge quality and tape, and arrange three pieces of exactly the same size to make your own composition.
Keep practicing your watercolor tree studies and share them as a series or as individual pieces on the class project page; I look forward to seeing your work.
Hello dear friends, welcome to my class. Today, In this class, we will learn to paint a trilogy of trees in watercolor. I will show you step by step the creative process, discuss the choice of color as well as reflect and critique the finished piece.
The class is real time recording, no speed up or time lapse, so you see exactly how colors react and mingle with each other. Oftentimes, they are unpredictable, which adds the fun and mystery of watercolor. We learn to accept and follow the call of creativity. We work around the flow and let our brushes dance with the colors. Let's paint and discover together.
In this class, we will learn to paint three kinds of trees, palm tree, pine tree and poplar tree respectively with detailed and real time explanation and reflection.
Please feel free to use your own art supplier. For your reference, here are the materials that I use in this class:
Watercolor: Crayola 16 Semi-Moist Oval Pans Watercolor Set with Brush
Watercolor paper: Canson 100510941 XL Series Watercolor Pad, 1 Pack, Multicolor
Watercolor brushes, You will need at least a large soft hair brush, such as watercolor size 10 up and a small outline brush of size 4.