My latest instructional video Elements of Landscape Painting: Trees is now available for purchase and download from Gumroad! Check out the preview below, and please visit my Gumroad link to get the full length video: https://ryandelgado.gumroad.com/l/trees
Elements of Landscape Painting: Trees
Without question, one of the most common elements to a landscape painting is a tree. They're everywhere! Whether they are distant groups of trees or individual ones in the foreground of our composition, chances are if we're painting a landscape, there's going to be a tree somewhere.
In this video, artist Ryan Delgado demonstrates his approach to painting an individual tree in the foreground starting with the initial toning of the canvas, followed by the block-in stage, and the build up of alla prima applications of color. But he's not stopping there! In addition to the tree itself, Ryan addresses other surrounding elements of the landscape that give the tree context and allow for a more convincing representation of nature, including a second tree in the middle background, the distant trees in the far background, the sky peeking through the leaves and branches, and the lay of the land. Painting trees is all about identifying shapes and the skill of careful observation of color and value, and those are the two most valueable lessons of this demonstration.
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