Doodles Page 1: Simple wet in wet tree & Winter Tree

Simple wet-in-wet tree

1. Keep the brush full & watery
dragging the belly of the brush across the paper as shown.
Try to get a non symetrical shape.
2. While the paint is still wet, drop in greener paint (more ultramarine) in the shadow areas.
'Drop in' means: let the second colour flow out of the brush on its own into the first colour with little or no painting action.

While the trunk is still damp, lift out paint with a damp rigger.

If you don't get the effect ask:
Is the stage 1 wash wet enough?
Is the stage 2 wash too wet?

Winter tree

No.6 Brush & No. 1 Rigger on Bockingford Not Paper
Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna Ultramarine

Paint trunk and larger branches with No.6 Brush changing to rigger for smaller branches & Twiggs.
Start by painting the trunk and main branches using watery raw sienna. While this is still wet drop in a thicker mix of burnt sienna & ultramarine into shadow areas and let the colours fuse together on their own.
Finish off the smaller branches and twiggs using a rigger. Try to complete this while the trunk and branches are still wet.
It takes a lot of practice to paint winter trees with the rigger - keep doing it until you get control.

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