www.paintbasket.com - How to paint trees & bushes in watercolor lesson Dennis Clark of the Paint Basket giving a art lesson on how to painting bushes in watercolor. The same principle will apply to trees and other foliage.
FINALLY THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH, Someone who actually broke it down . I have always wondered about why in water color they wanted you to do a color chart with all the colors and now after watching your wonderful training video i now know why. Your attention to detail is FANTASTIC and i have often wondered how to get those details. THANK YOU AGAIN for your time and most beautiful effort and art work.
If the initial wash put down is still too wet and you add the next color into it, it will just merge completely into a single color. One of the most important aspects of watercolor painting is to learn to judge the water and moisture content of the paper. This can be done by checking the shine on the paper. Lots of water= complete merging. Just after the "shine" has disappeared then less merging. Summer and winter temperatures and humidity also has to be contended with. Takes practice.
Woho~~another super core tip,sir Right after shines on paper has disappeared...(now I got to see how I made ugly muddy colors mixed up )Wet on wet is only a game of timing isn't it? I am going to judge perfect timing ok let me have a go
Thank you! This is an amazing demonstration technique by comparison! About 20 minutes of this tutorial gave me more understanding not only of bushes but of foliage in general than I'd hoped for! I would love to see more videos like this one!
I was not convinced when you started and with purple. But then I stuck around to see the outcome and I have to say THANK YOU for showing the "Real Process" which depicts the struggle of a painter with watercolour. The lack of patience and the disappointment with the organic raw shapes of the beginning. This is by far THE BEST best illustrated and well explained tutorial. I love your channel. Please, do not ever show us fast forwards! 🤗
Thank you for posting this instruction. I was having trouble getting bushes to look realistic and after watching your video, I painted a set that I really love. Cheers!
Many artists leave clear patches of paper for "sparkle". This is just one of them. It does look like snow and was not intended to be as this was just a demo and not a "finished" painting. I just quickly added the grass and ground cover as a base for the trees.
So useful to see the colour mixing at the beginning. And good to hear your friendly accent, Dennis. I found this very useful, I am looking for ways to progress in my water colouring .
Thank you so much. I learned several important things about watercolor and painting such as light, dark, light, dark. I so appreciate you're sharing of your knowledge. I'm a beginner at watercolors; they intrigue me:) Patty
Thank you so much for sharing. I use oils, and just started to learn chalk pastels . I never thought I would try watercolor, but thanks to your tutorials I am going to give it a try. :-) Liked and subscribed!
Very helpful! I felt the colors in the two lightest bushes should have blended better, especially in the lightest one. The explanation about how to develop the progression of colors was super!
When mixing the pigments together I end up with mud, nowhere near the green I see here. Am I misunderstanding that we are to mix the colors in progression adding to the original mix and adding additional pigment each time? I've tried it three times with varying amounts of pigment but still end up with muddy grays and browns.
Thanks for your lessons they are appreciated. By the way is there a Frank Clark? About twenty years ago, when I was sixty I discovered that I too could paint a picture after seeing it done
Thank you, Nuella. Yes there is a Frank Clarke; he had a watercolour painting show on UK TV some years back. If I remember correctly he was sponsored by Winsor and Newton.
Glad you enjoyed it. I am still adding videos, but Dennis who did the watercolour classes has since retired. You can however still follow his real time classes on our website.
Hey, I appreciate your tutorials and videos overall. They've been very helpful especially to a beginner like me. Do you have any tips on how to get into a higher level and understanding of using watercolors? I may have just started, but I am pretty good at it.
Sherry, Yes the colours were added progressively to the previous mix. Without me actually seeing what you are doing it is very difficult for me to advise you correctly. See also my comments ( 6 months ago) a few posts down with Lulu.
Is that suppose to be snow on the ground in front of each bush? or was the areas just left white because this is just incomplete and an example and it didn't matter? Thanks
Hi, I have a question about the watercolour technique. I would like to paint my architectural drawings by watercolor. Can I draw on standard paper o I have to use special paper? Wich pen can I use for this work ? Thank you
Before you try watercolour on a final drawing it is best to experiment to see if the paper does not buckle. By standard paper, I assume you mean something as thin as copy paper. Copy paper will certainly buckle. The amount of water you use is also a factor to be taken into consideration. If you don't use watercolour paper then cartridge paper is better. Use the thickest one available. Just make sure you use a pen with waterproof ink for the drawing side.
Thank you Dennis for this video! The instruction leaves me with one questions, slightly confused: Why do you/does Dennis use the purplish colour for the background (04:10) ? Isn't the background usually more bluish, compared to the foreground that leans towards reddsih hues?
The colour here can vary according to many criteria, depending on the lighting conditions, pollution in the air, the time of day, the basic colour of the object, the distance from the viewer, time of the year, and many more. The object of the painting was to show the colour progression and the colour perspective relative to the distance from the viewer. Actually the tonal range in any painting is more important than colour. As long as the tonal range is correct you can use any colour. Hope this clears it up for you.
People get too caught up in "how do I draw this" and "how do I draw that". There almost never is an easy trick to drawing or painting objects. No shortcuts. The simple tho. The more you do it, the better you get. It's much easier to have your "painting toolbox" you can take from, rather than a specific tool set for each object you know.
I fully agree that you don't want a "formula" for every single object. If that where the case, you would never be able to paint anything without a huge amount of instruction. There are however certain concepts and techniques that need to be mastered in order to paint successfully, like knowing how light affects an object, or certain brush strokes in order to create mottled effect, smooth shading, etc.
