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Author: Marvin_Chew, Contributing Editor
| Before the above dries completely, add more sap green into the previous mixture on your palette and paint the bottom parts of the foliage.
Now, you may paint in strokes, dab, or just tiny dots to represent leaves. Remember, details become less visible and distinct with distance so always plan and determine the distance of your trees and foliage before putting in the darks. |
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| You are slowing moving towards the dark colours. Add some cobalt blue and french ultramarine blue into the previous green mixture, and paint in the dark areas wet on wet.
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| At this stage, wait for the paint to dry completely. Then mix sap green with indigo and sepia to get a very dark mix of colour which I often use for shadows. Using this mixture, paint in the bottom part of the foliage as shadows.
Clean your brush with water and use the damp brush to touch the edges of the dark you've just painted. This will soften the edges to avoid a distinctive crisp mark. (You may skip this part if your intention is to have crisp looking foliage.) An important point to remember about watercolour is the paint looks darker when wet and lighter when it has dried. |
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| Finally, when everything has dried completely, paint in the trunk and branches with dry synthetic brush, loaded with a small amount of paint. A synthetic brush has tougher bristles and is perfect for painting branches as it will leave some white paper to suggest texture and highlights. |
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| 6. PAINTING A BRANCH
You could paint a branch using the same techniques and methods discussed above. Here are step-by-step pictures showing how I paint a branch. |
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