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Simple wet-in-wet tree

Try out this simple tree (actual size). Practice until you can do it. (Example painted with No. 6 brush & No. 1 Rigger on Bockingford Tinted Cream paper)

1. Keep the brush full & watery
dragging the belly of the brush across the paper as shown.
Try to get a non symetrical shape.
2. While the paint is still wet, drop in greener paint (more ultramarine) in the shadow areas.
'Drop in' means: let the second colour flow out of the brush on its own into the first colour with little or no painting action.

  3. Using Burnt Sienna + Ultramarine, paint in the trunk and branches using a rigger brush while the tree is still wet.

Let the trunk colour leak into the tree colour. While the trunk is still damp, lift out paint with a damp brush.

If you don't get the effect either the wash is not wet enough or the wash is too wet?