How to Paint a Tree in a Snowscape Painting

Video Transcript

"Okay now for the trees in the foreground that we drew the verticals for the poles. I can't even see some of the verticals but I'll figure it out as I go along. So what we need to do is sort of start this at the bottom into the snow and just randomly put in some parts of trees. Getting some more yellow ochre here. This is yellow ochre, phthalo green, phthalo blue and panes gray. Going on top of this with a little bit of yellow ochre combining with the blue and the panes gray and the green. Now as I run out of water in the brush it's starting to break apart as I'm pushing the brush now. And that's exactly what we're looking for is a dry brush type effect. Your brush can't be too wet to do this. So go directly into the paints and you're starting to see what a really dry brush can do. It does a very interesting effect which works real well for evergreen trees. We're just going to expand these. The ones at the bottom are not really dry brush as yet."