Monday 6 April 2009

Trees are apparently hard to paint.


So I read somewhere that I can't remember. And I'm trying to convince myself that that's true, and it's not just me being inept.

Here are some trees I painted tonight. They are a bit too blobby to actually look like trees.

Another thing that is very hard is mixing greens. I used lemon yellow, cobalt blue, ultramarine, burnt umber and a bit of viridian for this little painting. I remember quite a lot of the colour mixing theory we did in my watercolour class at the start of the year, but actually putting it into practice is a different story. Still at least I had more luck with the scanner tonight, and I do like my little fence.

5 comments:

Brenda Yarborough said...

Nice job!! The trees have good form and lovely variations of green. One thing you can try next time is to put just a smidgeon of red in your green, it will gray/olive your greens and make it read truer for vegetation. There actually IS red in leaves, that's why they turn in the Fall when the chloroform making them green starts to diminish.

Alex said...

The brush strokes are great! And I don't see any problems with the shapes of the trees :) They look so natural to me, and the way you did the tree trunks is just nice!

Aarti Harish said...

Wow...i loved the greens...

laura said...

I just love the title of this post--and it's so true! I struggle and struggle with trees. And greens--which are VERY hard!
But your tree sketch is delightful--the repetition has a nice rhythm to it, and the trees themselves are so lively looking, stylized!

Chris Hack said...

those trees are perfect. really great volume. and beautiful colours.

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