Colours
Ultramarine, Sap green, Madder lake (or alizarin)
Brush #16
Paper: Needs to be ROUGH/ TORCHON. Arches rough is great for this. If you use a smooth paper you won't get the jagged edges of the branch.
Pigment in the brush: not too much water and make sure you stroke on the paint use your brush almost horizontally for best results
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Draw an elongated cone shape with a centre line. Draw irregular ellipses over-lapping draw outside your cone but don't deviate too far from the original line. You can see here the ellipses are different sizes.
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This is brush stroke 1. Start with the brush on the line of the cone and sweep out, feathering the edge |
This is brush stroke 2. Squash your brush as shown and sweep down from brush stroke 1 |
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Start with a few squiggles with a fine brush at the top. Change to bigger brush and lighter green |
Add darker colour (green + madder) to give the shadows under the branches then add the trunk continue up adding trunk sporadically
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