Watercolour Tree

Here's something a bit different (at least for me). A few days ago, I had to wait for someone in a mall for a while. I wandered into a bookshop and to the shelf with art books. I ended up getting a book about watercolour techniques, because I thought it had some nice ideas for my scenic stamping. Then I remembered a tree I painted with watercolours in school and on a bit of a whim I got a set of watercolours too. I use watercolour techniques with my Distress Inks a lot and I wanted to see what the difference would be. The book I got has a section on painting trees, and since I love trees, I thought I would give it a try. I kept the clouds and background fairly similar to the example in the book, but my tree ended up looking different. I first sketched the tree. The sky was done with two washes on wet paper. The leaves of the tree were painted with a dry brush technique and then I painted the trunk and the branches. The foreground and the fence were done last, adding a bit of extra texture with dry brushing on the grass. I had fun mixing different shades of green and brown. TFL!!

 

Blogpost: layersofink.blogspot.com/2011/11/watercolour-tree.html

 

Supplies: Daler Rowney Aquafine watercolours; watercolour paper; Derwent sketching pencils.

 

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