How to paint this Aussie bush scene - Full tutorial!

In this full tutorial on painting an Aussie bush scene, learn how to paint realistic trees and shrubs! Mark Waller shows you step by step, how to paint this exercise and particularly showing the versatility of the two colours Forest Green and Burnt Umber in creating realism in your trees and foliage paintings. Hope you can follow along and have some fun with this one!
Colours used:
Atelier Interactive Artists Acrylics:
Titanium White
Permanent Alizarine
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Cadmium Yellow Light
Forest Green
Pthalo Blue
French Ultramarine Blue
Dioxazine Purple
Burnt Umber
00:00 - Begin!
00:50 - Focussing on foliage
01:03 - Prep your canvas
01:40 - Dish out your colours
02:25 - Blocking in
03:07 - Creating trees in the distance
03:50 - Creating shadow colour
04:30 - How to create realism with warm and cool colours
05:30 - Creating a mid-tone
08:20 - Adding some highlights
09:40 - Adding trunks
12:30 - Adding darkest darks
14:30 - Creating shaded leaves
16:16 - Creating leaf highlights
19:15 - Adding dappled light on path
21:26 - Creating backlit leaves
24:10 - Creating leaf highlights
27:43 - Adding dead leaves
30:30 - Adding deep shadows on trunks
31:20 - Adding thicker tree trunks
35:33 - Adding trunk highlights
37:19 - Adding sky holes to the background
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