WATERCOLOR PINE TREES USING THE WET INTO WET AND DRY BRUSHING TECHNIQUES/ easy for beginners 

Thank you 😊 You’re trees will get there! It wasn’t that long ago when my trees weren’t as diverse as these ones, and with very little techniques used. But, with constant practice, you’ll develop your own take and style of trees and grow to love them.

Hi there, I am right there with you!!, let’s hang in there together (as two beautiful seniors) and become as accomplished as Ms Peacock!!. ❤

You got this!

I'm a senior just learning too and this is challenging but so much fun and exciting when I get one that looks good!! Thank you for showing us so many options to try...over and over and over again! lol

I’m so glad you enjoyed this video! And there’s still so many more I didn’t cover.

Awww 🥰 I love that! And yes, the forests are my passion and joy. Thank you so much for leaving me a comment and sharing your enthusiasm for trees! 🌲🌲🌲

I live in a forest as well, surrounded by trees. Please note that most of your trees are spruce, not pine. The length was just fine. After all, one can always speed the video up. I don't know why l find them hard to paint, though; do you also find that some seemingly simple things pose a greater challenge than others? Thanks!

Ahh yes, I find many subjects challenging to paint. At the moment it’s mushrooms. No idea what it is about those, but I always mess them up. What I do to challenge myself with something I desperately want to get better at is to obsess over it until I get it right. That way I’m able to get all the bad art out of my system.

Thank you! I’m excited to share more. It’s fun to try new styles and techniques. It’ll eventually lead to your own personal style of tree. 😊

Glad it was helpful! And thank you so much for watching and leaving me some feedback. I might have to do a video on other types of trees. That’s a great idea.

I hope you have a great time trying these techniques. Trees are the best. Thank you for the kind comments!

I'm so glad you liked them, and ever more excited for you to paint your trees. They bring me so much joy, and it's been wonderful connecting with other who love painting trees, too. Many thanks, Linda! I'm happy you're here.

Thank you so much 😀

I'm seriously glad it was helpful. I hope to get better with my teaching and to continue to provide quality content. :)

I'm so glad! Woohoo!

Thank you so much 🌲🤍

Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching and leaving me a comment 🌲🤍

Ooh in Mendocino County! Love it. The Northern California coast is just beautiful. What a lovely place to grow up. Thank you for sharing and leaving me a comment.

Hello new friend! Thank you for spending time with me. SO glad this was helpful, and I hope to continue to provide valuable content. :)

Thank you so much for watching and leaving me a comment. I do have a more recent tutorial on trees if you haven’t checked out that one. 🤍🌲

Happy you stopped by and enjoyed them, Utsha! ☺️

Thank you for the suggestions, Mark. I’ll keep that in mind for future videos.

Thank you so much, Susie. I appreciate the feedback and even more importantly, love that you have been able to create a landscape that you love. 🤍🌲

Hi Sue! I'm so glad you found me, too! Oooh let me know how it goes. The dry brushing can be a bit rough on the brush, but it can create a beautiful effect.

Slumps are the worst. I’m happy that you’ve found some motivation and inspiration in my videos that you can apply to your own artistic interests. I love the journaling idea! Washington is such a beautiful state, and I couldn’t agree more. The trees of the PNW are incredible.

You can do it! With constant practice and exploring you'll start to develop a tree you love painting. Thank you so much for leaving me a comment and sharing a little bit about yourself. And the coast must be so inspiring. Do you live in a colder coastal environment or a warmer one? I grew up with cold and misty coastal forest vibes, which is what I love and what inspires my art.

Thank you for the wonderful comments, Merlin!

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I so so love that response! I’m glad you’re liking your trees and your efforts. It’s wonderful when we can feel that way. Thank you for sharing 🤍🌲

Happy to hear you enjoyed it! Part two will be here shortly so stay tuned. And wow, thank you! Happy to help anyone learn or inspire new ways to paint.

You’re welcome! 🌲

And thank you!!

Glad it was helpful! 🌲 I appreciate you watching.

Thank you so much for loving them! And I absolutely believe you’ll get the tree you’re after with consistent practice. 🌲

Thanks, Debbie! I appreciate your feedback 🥰

Aww Brittany, I totally get it. Paper is so expensive, but it really is the number one important thing in watercolor painting in my opinion. You can always by a large sheet of cold pressed and cut it up if you have a local art store near you that's where you can find them (not the big stores though - at least for me).

Thank you so much! I wish you many happy tree paintings. 🌲🌲🌲

Nemesis 🤣 You’ve got this!

I'm glad it was helpful, and thank you so much for leaving me a comment. 🌲

That’s an awesome discovery! It’s a fantastic brush!

Hello Anita all the way from Scotland! I wish you many happy tree paintings, and especially for the one you’ll create for your daughter 🤍 Thank you for watching and leaving me a comment. I appreciate you being here, and that you’ll continue to be inspired 🌲

Glad you liked it! 🌲

I’m glad it’s helpful! 🤍

Absolutely!

Thank you! 🤍🌲

I do love the redwoods

Absolutely! It’s definitely all about playing around with brushes and water, and paint. You never know the type of tree you’ll end up getting and loving.

You're welcome!

Welcome! Hope you do.

Thank you for watching and leaving me a comment. I hope these tree techniques that I use will continue to help you with your own trees. Pine trees are honestly hard if you're first starting out with them. I also find that it's been my brushes, too that can give a tree a different look.

Okay thanks, I will try different brushes 😀

Absolutely!

Not yet! 🤍

You’re welcome 😊

You’re welcome, Joan. Using the wet-into-wet technique is a wonderful way to create distant fuzzy background trees, but it’s only one way. You can always create softer trees in the distance by using a lighter wash of color onto dry paper. So many ways lol. I’ll have to include that in a future video. 🌲

That’s a great idea. I’ll think about that for sure.

Thank you so much, Luanne! I don’t have any workshops planned, but have wanted to do one. I’ll have to seriously think about that for the future.

Ooh I haven’t tried those brushes before. I love my velvetouch brushes, but I mostly prefer any brush that’s a long round. The FB group is called Painting Moodscapes and you can find it under my FB account Jackie Peacock Art

Ahh Misty that is frustrating. I know when I spent my time painting pages of trees that helped. And I studied them from photos.

@@JackiePeacock Thanks. I did notice that the paper makes a huge difference. I never allow myself to use Arches becuase of the cost of the paper but I am realizing even practicing it makes a huge difference in my painting and in my confidence.

Yeah, that is the unfortunate thing and downside of watercolor is having to pay for quality paper. But I hear you this is where all of my extra savings of money goes to is the paper.

You are definitely not wrong, so don’t worry. It is a size 4 and all of the materials should be corrected in the description of the video. 😊

@@JackiePeacock Thank you for your reply, I am going to purchase the brushes & follow your amazing technique. Excellent teaching xx

The velvetouch brush is a series of brushes by Princeton. It's just a style of brush I prefer to use, but there's plenty out there that are great. I love a good long round brush with a fine tip. :)

Hi Paula! For most of the trees, I'm using a dry brushing technique. Try this: mist your watercolor paints (not pools of water in them), then dip your paint brush into water, dab most of the water off on a cloth, pick up some moistened paint (shouldn't be dripping), and then lightly mist your paper before applying the paint. This should create those fun lightly feathered out trees. Have you watched this video? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uzojBQePRxI.html In the second painting, I break down the trees here, too. But I must admit, that it has taken me a long time to get to these types of trees. A lot of experimenting and playing around with different brushes and water to paint ratio. You'll get there Paula. And you'll end up discovering your own style of tree that you love along the way. :) And most importantly, there's no wrong or right way to paint your trees!

Thank you, Donna! I’m so glad you got something out of it. 🤍🌲

I believe I'm using perylene green and deep sap green by Daniel Smith watercolors.

Oh no no no! I'm so sorry. Thank you for the reminder that I kept saying the wrong number. I'll pin a comment letting others know. I hope you can return it, but if not, then the larger sizes are wonderful too. I'm so sorry about that.

@JackiePeacock thanks for the apology♡ I really appreciate it. I was so confused lol. I've been wanting these brushes for forever now but since finding ur tutorials, I Said f it.. lemme grab em bc I've also been focusing a lot more on my watercolors. They should actually mostly all be here today including the ones gotten in error. These are what I've gotten Long round size 6 velvetouch Long round size 2 velvetouch Round size 4 aqua elite Long round size 4 velvetouch Round 6 aqua elite

@pandapuffs710 I love all those brushes! I hope you love them too. I find the larger sizes are wonderful when painting larger paintings. Hard to paint larger trees with the smaller sizes so I hope everything you bought is beneficial for all sizes you do.

@JackiePeacock lol I def request more tutorials w these sizes I put above pweaseeee. See I always say the art materials don't necessarily make the art but I find everything I know to be true goes out the window w watercolor. The brushes really do make a difference

Haha thanks, Jan!

Hi Linda! I’m always happy to receive feedback! I definitely plan on continuing to better those camera angles. It’s important to get those close ups.

Ooh no! What brush are you using?

@@JackiePeacock different brushes 😔 my trees looks very bad. I can’t understand how to do it better( maybe the paper is bad, maybe my arms

I’m just now seeing this comment and it’s been a couple months, but how are your trees coming along? I hope they have improved to your liking.

Absolutely agree. I have music in my older videos, but over the last few months I've tossed it. I find it distracting and not really the aesthetic I'm going for.

Thank you so much, Yiwen! 🤍