Geoff Kersey Watercolour Technique ⎮Summer and Autumn Trees⎮Watercolour Landscape 

I love how he explains what other find obvious. It’s those things that make him so much better as an instructor. I keep saying “Ah ha!!” I am so excited I have found his videos!!!!

My daughter wants to learn how to paint landscapes in water colour. So I decided I'd help her out by searching for videos I think she should watch. I have only watched the first 5 minutes and already I am commenting because I am so impressed. There are several reasons: 1. Unlike other tutorials, you show what you started with, without a lot of extraneous gabbing. 2. You showed the selection and mixing of the colours AND your selection of paint brush. 3. You demonstrated how to hold and use the brush as well as what NOT to do. In other words, you did not talk a lot on just the technical side (color, lighting, composition). Instead you described and demonstarted the brush stroke technique to use. 4. Your first 4 minutes showed me a recognizaable tree and you have only STARTED. Your video may be almost 4 years old, but it one I am going to suggest to anyone who is a beginner and wants to learn how to paint water colour landscapes. Thank you.

This is a really great tutorial. I am relatively new at watercoloring and appreciate lessons like this so much. Thank you.

Thank you Geoff I used this with my online zoom art class which I share with military families having a fun relaxed hour or two with watercolour!!we enjoyed recreating your technique - thank you x

Learnt so much....thanks

All your paintings are so beautiful!

I just LOVE painting trees, mountain scenes, water scapes (lakes, streams, ocean) - ANYthing in nature, really, including wildlife, but have had a hard time finding tutorials online that explain the sequence & timing of each step - and really have had a hard time getting my pine trees to look less flat (like a comb) as well as achieving that depth without getting my colors all muddled. After watching your video (which happened to come up in my feed), I Subscribed! I'm going to try some trees right now using a few different water color sets while keeping in mind; 1. Mix your colors first 2. Wet the area with clear water 3. Start at the center of the tree & work your way outward 4. Use the side of the paintbrush (not the tip) to scumble in the color for texture & spacing 5. Lay down the lightest color first, then the darker tone on the shadow side, then touch in the highlights using the tip of a smaller round brush 6. Fill in gaps with suggestions of the trunk all the way around and up 7. Touch the base of the foliage where it meets the trunk with a bit of main tree color to blend over the top of the trunk so the trunk appears to be behind the foliage. THANK YOU! VERY Helpful! :)

Really love your work and teaching method...very informative yet no rubbish talk no dilly dally...fantastic subject to my interest...

Hi, hope you doing great right now. Am actually nothing at paintings and this is the first time i tried this stuff, and your YT is quite help me a lot to do more. Thankyou, sending regards from Indonesia

thank you from an American cousin. I've been looking for someone that can paint a clear, yet simple, evergreen.

It was so interesting watching this video, thank you so much for sharing with us your beautiful drawing technique.

Thanks a lot for sharing your technique

Watching you paint the trees was a wonderful lesson. I can now see where I have been doing it all wrong. Thank you so much.

You’re the absolute best instructor! Love watching you. I’m a beginner and this has been so helpful!

You just blew my mind with such simplicity... Thank you!

Thank you Geoff, for your honest and detailed tutorial. I am from India, trying to follow your techniques and learnt many things from your tutorials. Thank you so much. Krishna murthy.

Thank you for your workshop

This is so beautiful! The explanations are so clear and straight forward. Its so clear that from basic strokes, you can control more complicated paintings. I am enjoying every single video you do. Please do as many as you can. Your work is amazing. Thank you very much for sharing.

The last tree was my favorite!

Thank you Mr. Kersey for your tutorial! I loved so much!

This is very useful for me.thank you very much.

Wow! Amazing work thank you very much.

Mr. Kersey - Thank you for a really wonderful lesson! I can't wait to go put it to practice! So beautifully explained with wonderful video as well! Call me grateful!

Beautifully done. It helps to see the sequence of underpainting and details.

Thank you Geoff for this. As a newby to painting it was so helpful and clear and you named all the colours you used. Many don’t.

Geoff I have been watching you since you were a young un and still watching, funny thing is landscapes are not my thing to paint but I like watching.

So relaxing watching you paint.

Your tutorial is so VERY helpful. Thank you for helping us learn how to paint trees.

Thank you, Geoff. I've followed you for many years on Art Tutor (still do) and have learned much from you. My favorite paintings are landscapes that include trees. This was a great tutorial, as always.

I just found this tonight, when I was trying to figure out how to get the right textures for a tree. I'm very new to painting, having started my watercolor journey a little over two weeks ago, but this tutorial was instrumental in my first tree-like tree. (Granted, it's a terrible tree, but I'll fix that with a bit of practice. :D )

BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You’re such a wonderful teacher and a brilliantly talented artist. Thank you for sharing your gift with us all. Love, Jessica xox

Excellent tutorial for a complete beginner, thank you.

thank you very much for your lesson...it has been a pleasure to attend to; very instructive

This was very helpful - thanks!

That was very good Geoff, thus is the first video I've seen of yours. Your three-step books are excellent! Thanks.

hey sir you are a great Painter..

I really like your teaching method. I learned a lot! Thank you!

Excellent demonstration. I’m looking forward to painting some trees.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! You are the best!!!

Thank you for your generous sharing. 🙏

Really enjoy the way you teach this technique.Thanks )

Excellent demonstration!

wonderful. i think i can do watercolor :)I love the way you hold the brush. reminded me of pencil drawing

Awesome tutorial

Will follow forever

I love your art!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you that was so helpful.

I love the way you paint trees! I’m going to start using that technique!

This is so very helpful - thank you!

Thanks for the tutorial! It was very helpful! Cant wait to try what I learned today!

Very clear explanations. Magistral!!!

I am 74 years female have always wanted to paint since I was a little girl was quite good when I was in school. . Mother said it would be useless as I would never make any thing of it. So no . So iam going to bite the Bullitt & have a go . Did dable in oils for a while . But no time with family . Thank you I understand you the way you explain the technic.

Autumn is my favorite season, so colorful! Thank you, teacher!

Brilliant

Lovely! Thank you for your knowledge and shared talent!

So enjoyable Geoff Thankyou.

Gracias por explicar y mostras las convinaciones de colores .

Thank you so much

Great teaching!!!

Thank you for this tutorial!

I'd love to see more tutorials like this from you. I'm going to subscribe in Hope's you will

Very helpful. Thank you!

Excellent!!

Great instruction, thank you!

This is very useful..

Thank your for your video. My only question is: to obtain the first trees I need to use rough paper? I can obtain the same effect even If I use a paper more clean/straight (without texture) but with your technics? 😊

This is absolutely one of the best watercolor tutorial! Thanks Geoff!

Excellent!! Thanks

Asi se hace. Gracias!

Geoff is a stud.

Thx. Great

I hate to say this, this tutorial just happened to come across my recommendations. I'm so glad it did! I really like and understood you teaching style. I'm going to look for the winter and spring? The other trees you talked about. Thank you. wp:)

Thank you sir.

Muuito bom! Sensacional. Meu cérebro: Muito fácil Minhas mãos: ??

Excellent technique for making a tree! Would this also work on paper that is not super rough? ok cold pressed 140gsm paper instead of 300gsm paper? thanks

amazing so much helpful info thx

How do you prevent the paper from buckling?

Very interesting amazing

impressive !

What paper are you using?

Fabulous great help I wonder where you teach ? Anywhere near Manchester

Osm

hi geoff whats the diffence in brush numbers i dont get it at all to me a brush is a brush thanks in advance

Hes holding the brush like a violin Bow and I must say ...gg

Muitas legendas cobrindo a visão para ver o trabalho! É uma pena!

"Ooookey, that's a fur tree or a spruce" - Drops mic. The internet: "WHY DOESN'T MINE LOOK LIKE THAT"

I wish your site took paypal for memberships.

Leave plenty of spaces between the leav... pieces of foliage.

Heyup Geoff , I believe a tree should look like a tree,,yours do ,lots of well known artists trees look very flat , I keep thinking of Alan Bennet on hearing your accent , I'm a foreigner from rawtenstall Lancashire.,,

Bellissimi! ...Sembra fattibile...anche per me... Mi eserciterò, speriamo bene! GRAZIE DI VERO CUORE!

you brought me back to life today.. thank you so much. I used to love to paint and have won many competitions.. and got so engrossed in academics that completely lost touch of art. Working 14 hrs a day, first time in many years I feel alive and fresh! Eternally grateful to you

I love how you use the grainy paper to make the tree. That's ingenious! That makes a beautifully realistic tree. I admire you for giving away your secret to how you make your tree look so realistic. Well done, Mr. Kersey! The 240 people who gave your technique a thumbs down don't appreciate how beautiful your technique or we'll never know why they gave it a thumbs down. Their loss!

Your demonstration of tree foliage was very helpful. Thank you.

I’m very new at painting and have been searching for tutorials. I really like the way you teach and can’t wait to try this as my trees look terrible but now I know why.

I really enjoy the way you teach this technique, I will watch your site more in the future, thank you.

Wow. Incredible light in your studio. The production quality of your tutorial surpasses most television offerings. Fantastic crew and great tutorial. Thank you so much.

Hi Geoff, this is wonderful video! I really love your techniques and how realistic the trees look. Lovely use of colour, tone, and shading too. I am an Artist as well so keep up the great work and good luck with your channel and videos. I've Liked & Subscribed.

Hello Geoff, just want to say thank you for your brilliant tutorials! I've struggled with my trees, as it's been many many years since I picked up a brush, but at last I've found someone who has shown me how to paint trees that I want to paint! I'm in my 70s now, and your voice is so calm and relaxing that I feel confident now that I really can paint a tree that I like!

Thank you so much for demystifying the tree. The scumbuling effect makes a hugh difference. Its nice to hear why it is important to do something rather than just being told to do it. You are a good and true teacher.