Video: Watercolor Painting River Scene Foreground Trees

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Take yellow okra and add it to Payne's gray when mixing color for trees. Learn how to watercolor paint river scene foreground trees with tips from a an art teacher in this free painting video.

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O.k. now we're going to put in the trees. We're going to take yellow okra and add it to paints gray; and Payne's gray is sort of a bluish green, bluish gray. So when you add that it gives you sort of an olive tone. Yellow okra and then we're going to put in the trees. Now the top of the trees probably need a little be more golden than this and we're going to come back and hit it with another shot of yellow okra and that will probably take care of it. The bottom of the trees is going to be more of this dark green color. The more you do water color the more you'll know how water reacts to the colors. So it's important to get a lot of practice in. So we're going to put yellow okra right on top of these areas here, sort of a golden glow that's going to help the top look correct and we just keep loading it up with more yellow okra.

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Watercolor Painting River Scene Foreground Trees

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