Why are trees so freakin hard don't worry on this canvas right here
I'm gonna show you how to take your crappy looking triangle trees and turn
them into beautiful looking evergreen trees so let's go!
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videos go live for you real quick before we again this video is more or less
gonna be about the confidence of building your tools and skills to make
your trees look less crappy I'm gonna do a video on how to make the perfect tree
as you go forward but I want to instill in you the confidence and the correct
ways to get your mind in hand to work as you go through your canvas so with that
said at the end of this video is the best tip I can give you on how to make
perfect trees that I want you to do so stick around to the end that my friends
is what we call a tease alright enough of my jibber-jabber and let me get you
the skills you need to dominate some trees we're gonna need to start off with
some tools for the trees we're gonna use a nice big fan brush I recommend using
the bob ross number-6 fan brush it's nice and wide and also it has some soft
bristles on it that allow for bending which is key as we go forward with our
tutorial here the colors we're gonna be using will be SAP green a little bit of
Prussian blue Van Dyck Brown and cadmium yellow along with the liquid white base
that we already have on and if you have trouble making stick colors stick we
also can introduce a little bit of liquid white on top so what I have here
on my palette is a mixture of SAP green a little bit of Prussian blue and Van
Dyck Brown and we're just going for a very dark evergreen color and this is
gonna help you stand out your trees when we put the highlight on it because it's
gonna give it contrast to make it stand out now with a soft number 6 fan brush
here make sure we coat our fan brush nice and evenly across all the bristles
get the front and the back and we want a lot of paint on
the more paint is actually better for any beginner wiggle your brush through will
help push the paint to the very end of the tips
now when you approach your canvas you actually want to come straight at it and
give yourself a nice guideline and so all we're gonna do is go straight down
with our paint you don't push hard and give us a nice little basic trunk line
that we can follow as we put the shape of our tree in here now when it comes to
doing a tree you essentially want to do one of two motions or mixture of both
you want to come in and start to either do a zigzag like this or you want to go
down and out and then back the center down and out and repeat the process over
and over and these two ways are the best way to get your basic shape as you go
forward take your fan brush and come right at your tree and turn 90 degrees
and slightly tilt up while dropping your elbow this will expose the point of the
brush and this can be the very top of our pine tree where the bristles start
to grow just simply tap and we start right there don't feel like you have to
fill the entire pine tree there will be gaps so let's slowly start to go down
and expand as we go out by slowly tapping in with a zigzag or a down and
out motion and you want to put a little more pressure as you go and you see each
time I go down and out it creates a nice little offset branch now usually by this
point right here people run out of paint on their paintbrush don't be afraid to
go back and re-applicate more paint onto your bristles here so that way you can
get that nice bold color you can also flip your brush to the other side if you
need so let's continue as we go down here and I'm just gonna zigzag down and
out hit a few more sides push a little harder in some spots so that way I get a
nice thick looking tree now the biggest mistake a lot of people make is it'll be
more or less just straight down and there may be some gaps don't be afraid
to go back up and fill in where you think the tree could use a little more
space in here and also a few our branches let's put another tree over
here so you can practice again one more time we're just gonna put our simple
little line doesn't even have to be straight it's just a guideline for us to
follow put a little dollop and start to slowly push down and out let the
bristles do a lot of the work here to see how well you can get everything to
more or less flair as you push all the way in to the canvas here let's do one
more over here we'll do a bigger one
and as you can see as we did each tree they progressively get better because
you work on the motions of how they go see my first tree not so good second
tree a little bit better third tree the best so now that we got our trees in
here let's add some trunks take just your palette knife and from the middle
to the top find the center with just the bottom of the blade then rest the rest
of the blade on there and slightly just go up to give it a nice little point
again just go in with the base then go flat and go straight up trees generally
like to grow straight up because they're following the Sun so try to make it as
best as you can but again it doesn't have to be perfect this will also help
fix any of the blobs that you may had at the top don't worry about the bottom
because we're gonna fix that right now take some of your Van Dyck Brown and
pull it flat it's okay if it's got some green in it that'll help add to the
color there pull it nice and flat and we're gonna take a small little roll now
it's easier to go upside down with the blade and tap down but if it's easier
for you to do it on this side that's fine try to follow down in a straight
line and you do not have to put an entire trunk in you can leave gaps again
so let me show you on the side from this perspective so hopefully the camera can
see it and just add little lines in here do the same thing here and let me do
upside down over here probably blocking the camera but it's actually easier for
me so you can see how we've got some sparse parts with our trunk coming
through nice little thin one and a nice thick one that we can add on here now we
get to make our tree pop and blend in our trunk by adding highlights most
people have just a problem getting the yellow to stick on top of that so I
recommend adding just a few drops of liquid white to make this a little bit
of a fattier paint so it'll stick on top of this firmer paint with a pretty clean
fan brush it's ok if it's still got a little bit of green color on here go
through our nice fatty cadmium yellow color we just made now you don't need to
get this too full here you can actually pull it a little bit thin because we can
always go back and add more details on top now when it comes to highlights
think about where your sun is coming through
let's just say we had a sun up here that shining down in a cross to highlight the
right side of our trees so we want more highlight on our right side than we do
on our left side when it comes to adding highlights it's the same process go in
turn dip your elbow a little bit and use more or less the corner of the fan brush
and allow the bristles to do the work the first time you dab on it's gonna be
a really strong color so only push just very lightly as we start to get a lot of
this yellow don't be afraid to go over that trunk either because that will help
blend it into the background of the tree cuz there will be highlights and dark
spots all the way across our tree here let's keep going across I'm just using a
very light tap and letting more or less the corner of the brush if things get
too contaminated it's okay flip the paintbrush over and use the
other side of the paint if you get bright hotspots like that that's okay
maybe the Sun just hit there a little bit more to give it a little bit of
detail the highlight is to make it look like certain parts have highlights and
also branches are sticking out at certain locations there now you can see
your trees have a lot more details because the highlight and the trunk and
everything working with it now if you don't like your highlights that you put
on or any shape of the tree and the way it's flowing you can still fix a lot of
this by taking a clean fan brush any spare paper towel work out all that paint
and use just the upper corners of the bristles and lightly blend just the
bottom portion of the highlight go ahead and leave the top be that specular
highlight what this is going to do is that green is gonna blend in with the
bottom portion of our green and start to make all these multitude of colors and
you get to play around and see how you want this all to fade again don't be
afraid to go into your trunk and have that Brown get in there remember brown
is a color of a tree so you can have it be in there plus it's gonna break up
that trunk and make it look more natural if you really want to add an extra zing
to your trees you can take a little bit of liquid white and just add it at the
very end tips of your paint brush and wherever the Sun is really striking down
you can just add a little bit of white that really will give it a little more
of a now this only takes a very light touch
here and it'll fade in fast the green because the green will absorb it but
this is just a little extra detail you may not even see the show up on camera
but trust me when you paint it you'll see all the extra little details just
catch and kiss the tree when you start feeling comfortable trees you can start
laying land and having a lot more fun with the way that you want trees to be
and that's what makes trees really fun is you get to do all these little
different things there they're gonna make them stand out and look oh so
pretty already time to fulfill that tease I talked about now that it gave you all
the skills and tools and confidence that you need to go along with doing trees
what's the best way to get better and better with them well it's actually easy
it's practicing with something that you probably already have at your house or
gets delivered all the time and that just a normal Amazon box what I want you
to do is just go ahead and cut off a side and gesso it and put it up on your
easel you may need a backing like a piece of wood and from left to right or
right to left depending on your hand in the way that it flows practice doing
trees over and over and over try to do about ten trees and I guarantee you when
you start doing your first two third they're gonna look like crap when you do
your fourth two six slightly better and as you go from the seventh in on
everything slowly starts to click and the reason I want you to do this is
because it's kind of like basketball you're not gonna be good at shooting
free-throws if you only do one or two shots and call it a day and that's what
a lot of people do when they paint trees in their paintings they do one or two
trees and it looks like crap and then they're done and they don't get better
with it cuz they're not gonna try another painting for maybe another week
or another month and you've lost all the skills by that I want you to practice
and practice till the muscle memories there and you've built the skills and
trust me this is the best tip you can do going forward as a beginner painting I
guarantee you from your first street to your 10th tree it's gonna look
phenomenally better you're gonna love it now I know this video was more or less
just a quick tip to get you up and running and instill that confidence and
hopefully I did and a lot of people struggle with painting and trees should
it be that much of a struggle anymore thanks to this video now if you
still struggle with certain things perhaps mountains got you covered there
peeps I'm gonna put a video over here to the side that's gonna show you how to
become a mountain master by showing you the common mistakes that you make check
that video right after the end of this video and thank you again for watching I
appreciate it so much and I will see all of you beautiful people in the next
video coming up real soon take care stay safe and of course Peace