Doodles Page 1: Simple wet in wet tree & Winter Tree
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Simple wet-in-wet tree
Try out this simple tree (actual size).
Practice until you can do it. (Example painted with No. 6 brush & No. 1 Rigger on Bockingford Tinted Cream paper)

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.
3. Using Burnt Sienna + Ultramarine, paint in the trunk and branches using a rigger brush while the tree is still wet.
Let the trunk colour leak into the tree colour.

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
Paint 2 x size shown

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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