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Painting Tips - Birch Trees
Trees are an important subject in many landscape paintings. When making a sketch of your picture before painting, note how the branches leave the main trunk and how the smaller branches taper to the ends of the twigs. A study of bare trees will help in the placement of the leaf masses.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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Painting Birch Bark
Three paint colors:
Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Sienna mix
Paynes Gray
Paynes Gray and White - mix a very light color
I applied Paynes Gray down the center part of the tree trunk. Working wet on wet, the dark mix was applied to the shaded side, blending the edge where the dark and medium colors meet. The technique was repreated with the light mix on the sunny side of the tree.
While the paint was still wet, I wiped out the brush and dry brushed a few curved strokes from the dark side toward the middle section so the direction of the brushstrokes indicated the rounded shape of the tree.
A highlight was added to the edge of the light side with an offwhite. For reflected light on the shadow side, a bit of the dark mix was added to the offwhite and applied to the edge near the base.
With a small flat brush, a few dark spots were added. With the brush wiped out, a few more spots were lightly brushed on the trunk.
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LINKS TO FREE ONLINE PAINTING INSTRUCTION - BIRCH TREES
- Helen Van Wyk's Favorite Color Recipes - Google Book Search
- From Helen Van Wyk's Favorite Color Recipes By Helen Van Wyk
- Birch Trees In The Snow. - A Scraping Watercolor Lesson
- This watercolor painting, of tress sticking through snow, teaches a scraping technique to create the background.
- YouTube - Acrylic Painting Lessons by Tim Gagnon painting Tips and Tricks "painting bark on a tree limb"
- Visit http://www.timgagnon.com for more information on painting lessons online. This video shows a short demonstration on painting highlights, or bark on a ...
- Aspen Paintings and Birch Tree Art - Aspens and Birches by Jennifer Vranes
- Jennifer Vranes paints birch trees
- ART PROJECTS FOR KIDS: Birch Trees
- This website has instructions for painting birch trees for kids
- About.com: http://www.bigbrush.com/free/birchpg1.htm
- A great site for instruction on birch tree bark
My Birch Tree Greeting Card on Zazzle
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How To Paint Skies and Trees in Landscape Paintings
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A lesson on painting skies - a way to get the sense of far distance in a painting with color.
Introduction to perspective.
Trees in the landscape
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Books on Painting Trees from Amazon
Drawing and Painting Trees
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Keys to Painting Trees & Foliage
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Painting Trees and Landscapes in Watercolor
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Painter’s Quick Reference - Trees & Foliage (Painter's Quick Reference)
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