Just keep practicing..pretty soon they will be perfect! And make sure that you are only using the tip of the brush to start the top..then use more pressure and more of the brush as you come down. I apologize for being so late with this reply :)
Mary, I am a beginner water colourist....and have recently learned how to do birch trees. While looking at the videos I finally found yours. Thank you for being an excellent narrator and just getting right down to business LOVE short videos with 100% clarity! Looking forward to seeing more.
Hi Mary. Your painting is awesome. I have always been crafty but never painted before and at 59 years old decided I would like to try. I have searched youtube for acrylic artists and came across you. I think you have some of the most beautiful paintings of anyone on here and you make it look so easy! I tried the daisy's and boy do I need to practice! Thanks for the vidios and your web site with all your pictures of your paintings. I really enjoy looking at them. Wish you had more lessons online I could hook up to. Thanks again.
Thank you so much for the wonderful and inspiring comments. I do plan to do more video's. It is just lack of time! I started painting when I turned 50 and here I am teaching classes! You can do it!
thanks for the really pretty simple trees, I have been over thinking my painting, I painted for a lot for years and around 15 years ago got away from it for lack of time, trying to rediscover my love, I have subscribed to your channel and will be looking at more of your videos.
I love fir trees and snow and this was a great little video to let me know how to create my own. Thank you so much. I always imagined trees would be hard to do but it's lovely to know even I can probably do this when I get my paints, which I have ordered. I have always drawn in pencil so paint is completely new for me. Hope I am Ok at it. This gives me some inspiration.
Mary, thanks for this tutorial. I always have problems painting trees but I'm going to watch your video a few times and I WILL do the trees correctly, God willing. Thanks again and God bless you.
love your trees. This is the first yr that my wife and I are painting Christmas cards to send out. I use different ways to make trees but love the way the left tree turned out on yours so will try that one on the next card. God Bless and Mary Incarnation day.
Thank You! I hope that you watched my other videos and if you like them, please subscribe. I show you how to do mountains, paint daisies, roses, rosebuds, etc. God bless you from America :)
Beautiful and looked so easy. I have been trying to paint a tree on a bread box all day long. Finally just painted over it and came to the computer to find someone to help me. Oh my I wish I had done this long ago. You make it look so easy. I am going to try it after I repaint my background. My cabinets are black so I have a black background on the breadbox. Now I will need to find another color that will work. I hope mine turns out as pretty as yours. Thanks so much for this wonderful You Tube video.
Hi Mary, I loved your demonstration. I will have to give it a go. I've not had much success with my fan brush doing it the "Bob Ross" way. I look forward to giving your technique a try. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and talent.
I have just found your video & I have to say it is the best one on this subject!! Your technique makes it look extremely easy to achieve fabulous realistic trees. 😀
Very nice...Thank You, Mary! Love your videos. Thank you for including the types of brushes and paint you are using. This is commonly left out in other videos and it is extremely important for beginners. BTW-For newbies, The paint, Folk Art can be purchased at Walmart for as little as $.50-$1.00 per 2 oz. bottle. Very inexpensive if you are just starting or have a small project.
Thank you so much to share with the world such a beautiful work. I wish I'd live closer to join your clases.!!! Lots of Love from Spain. yours Maria Teruchi
Thank you so much to share with the world such a beautiful work. I wish I'd live closer to join your clases.!!! Lots of Love from Spain. yours Maria Teruchi. greatings to Vu from Vietnam. I've been living 2 years in Ho Chi Ming and 5 in Hanoi
Wow Mary, you make it look so easy !!! Those trees are beautiful with the snow !!! Could you PLEASE show us how to finish that painting with the snow at night with a moon in the sky. I cant wait to paint this scene !!!! Where do you teach I would LOVE to take a class from you!! Thank you for posting your videos, you make it easy to understand !!!
Hi, thank you very much for doing this tutorial. Looked at some other ones but finally get it from the way you explain it. I'm learning how to Airbrush and Spray can paint and your method of painting evergreen trees will hopefully help me a lot. I also need to get a better fan brush which should make it easier.
Please make more videos! This helped me so much! Thank you. I tried this method and it came out good! I only tried the fan brush method though. God bless you and your amazing talent!
Thank you Mary! I am new to painting and I am particularly interested in winter scenes and landscapes but I just could not master the trees! Your techniques were the complete opposite of what I was doing so now I'm dying to try it your PROPER way! I don't have a fan brush so I'll try the second method until I get one. Can't wait to try this now!
I am so glad that you will try it..and please invest in a small fan brush as most of my students prefer to paint the trees with the fan and then use the other to highlight :)
I definitely will. I was in the craft store tonight but they only had fan brushes for acrylics and oils, but tomorrow I'll go to the art supply store and get one for watercolours. Thanks again! I'll certainly be referring back to your tutorial more than a few times!
Lisa, I am using acrylic paint and you don't want to buy a fan brush for watercolors as it would be too soft. Just get the ones that are for acrylic/oil and you will do just fine :) I'm sorry for the confusion.
Wow! That was fantastic!! I really enjoyed watching this, it really inspires me. I would love to be good at painting trees and landscapes, please keep the videos coming!! Thank you!
I am just learning to paint, I absolutely love it..Been watching your videos, you make it look so very easy.. I use acrylics... Are all your painting acrylics? Or do you also use oil? I look forward to watching more of your videos. Thanks
Thanks so much for your video. I want to paint pine tree silhouettes on the sides of a cake. I think I will use the fan brush along with my liquid paste food color. The cake will be made of fondant with an aurora borealis theme as the background. I will definitely experiment first on a separate piece of fondant. I've piped pine trees on cakes before, but never painted them. Anything else that I need to know?
Hello Mary, I love your tutortial, it helped me make some gorgeous trees! I have a problem with my brushes though. After the first time I used them (I bought the Royal 4 and 6 also have a 2) the bristles separate as soon as I put them in paint. I use Americana, Apple Barrel and Anita's acrylic paints and washed my brushes right after using them. Is this a problem with less expensive brushes or is it just me? I wonder if I ruined them by rinsing them in cleanwater and rubbing them against the bottom of the rinse bowl? I just can't seem to get the same great trees I got when the brushes were brand new. :( Thank you for your videos! I love them!
+skymama7I am so glad you liked it! I am not sure if you are using the same royal brushes that I use. Mine are hard to find but I do order them from this site: www.artistpaintbrush.com/ Here are the numbers for the 2 brushes that I use in almost every painting. SG750-1/2 & the other is SG750 3/4. They will separate when you clean them but they will come back together when you add the paint and wipe back and forth. I would also suggest that you invest in a Bob ross fan brush from hobby lobby or michaels. It is more expensive but well worth it. I hope this will help you :)
Very nice trees. I have realized that trees are one of the harder things for me.. Thank you for sharing .
Just keep practicing..pretty soon they will be perfect! And make sure that you are only using the tip of the brush to start the top..then use more pressure and more of the brush as you come down. I apologize for being so late with this reply :)
Mary, I am a beginner water colourist....and have recently learned how to do birch trees. While looking at the videos I finally found yours. Thank you for being an excellent narrator and just getting right down to business LOVE short videos with 100% clarity! Looking forward to seeing more.
Thank you so much for the nice encouraging words!
Believe me Mary, we all get something out of your teaching and I appreciate you!! Keep up the great work, thanks again!!
Mary, thank you so much for your help. Your demonstrations and explanations were perfect. Best ever!
Thank You Lissa..please don't give up on me as I do plan to add some more videos soon :)
Hi Mary. Your painting is awesome. I have always been crafty but never painted before and at 59 years old decided I would like to try. I have searched youtube for acrylic artists and came across you. I think you have some of the most beautiful paintings of anyone on here and you make it look so easy! I tried the daisy's and boy do I need to practice! Thanks for the vidios and your web site with all your pictures of your paintings. I really enjoy looking at them. Wish you had more lessons online I could hook up to. Thanks again.
Thank you so much for the wonderful and inspiring comments. I do plan to do more video's. It is just lack of time! I started painting when I turned 50 and here I am teaching classes! You can do it!
thanks for the really pretty simple trees, I have been over thinking my painting, I painted for a lot for years and around 15 years ago got away from it for lack of time, trying to rediscover my love, I have subscribed to your channel and will be looking at more of your videos.
+Michelle Jackson So sorry that I haven't put anything new on..Maybe in the future when things settle down.
Thank you for your encouraging words..sometimes it is hard to believe that anyone gets anything out of these videos but it makes my day!
I love fir trees and snow and this was a great little video to let me know how to create my own. Thank you so much. I always imagined trees would be hard to do but it's lovely to know even I can probably do this when I get my paints, which I have ordered. I have always drawn in pencil so paint is completely new for me. Hope I am Ok at it. This gives me some inspiration.
+Helen Perala Hi Helen, I do hope your painting is awesome!
I knew evergreens were simple, and you make it even more! Thank you very much fir sharing it. By saturday I will send you my masterpice!
Thank you so much :)
Thank you so much Mary, you always do such a beautiful job and a great teacher!! Have a good one and God Bless You!
Mary, thanks for this tutorial. I always have problems painting trees but I'm going to watch your video a few times and I WILL do the trees correctly, God willing. Thanks again and God bless you.
+Iris Sanchez Let me know how it goes :) you can find more of my video's on mypaints.com
love your trees. This is the first yr that my wife and I are painting Christmas cards to send out. I use different ways to make trees but love the way the left tree turned out on yours so will try that one on the next card. God Bless and Mary Incarnation day.
Mary, thank you so much for teaching me these painting techniques, I'm learning so much from you. Your a talented and pleasant person to watch.
You made my day! Thank you!
Beautiful. I appreciate your help here! Thank you Mary. Hope you have a most wonderful holiday!
Thank you so much! May you also have a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year!
Great instruction! I've been wanting to finish a turquoise background with trees just like this, and now I can!
+barbara wilson You make me so happy! I am thrilled when I can help!
Thank You! I hope that you watched my other videos and if you like them, please subscribe. I show you how to do mountains, paint daisies, roses, rosebuds, etc. God bless you from America :)
Loving your tutorials. So gonna try the flowers and then maybe a tree. It looks so easy
+Sharon Pearson How did it go? I hope it works for you :)
I totally love way you explain every step you make it really simple thx for the info
+Oreo Benavidez
Thank you! Blessings to you!
Beautiful and looked so easy. I have been trying to paint a tree on a bread box all day long. Finally just painted over it and came to the computer to find someone to help me. Oh my I wish I had done this long ago. You make it look so easy. I am going to try it after I repaint my background. My cabinets are black so I have a black background on the breadbox. Now I will need to find another color that will work. I hope mine turns out as pretty as yours. Thanks so much for this wonderful You Tube video.
Thank you Connie..I do value your opinion so much!
Thank you .I've just started painting and this was a big help.
You made it so easy, I was over thinking the whole thing .
I am so glad that it helped :)
Hi Mary, I loved your demonstration. I will have to give it a go. I've not had much success with my fan brush doing it the "Bob Ross" way. I look forward to giving your technique a try. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and talent.
+jeanine little Hi Jeanine, Yes, please try it..and if you have trouble keep practicing or send me a note and I see if I can help you :)
So much easier than I thought!! Thank you!
I have just found your video & I have to say it is the best one on this subject!! Your technique makes it look extremely easy to achieve fabulous realistic trees. 😀
+Paula Atkinson I hope that you have had time to try it and I hope it works for you :)
Lady,you are just plain awesome!!wow~!!
I never painted before but is longing to start. You make it look so easy. Thank you
Very nice...Thank You, Mary! Love your videos. Thank you for including the types of brushes and paint you are using. This is commonly left out in other videos and it is extremely important for beginners. BTW-For newbies, The paint, Folk Art can be purchased at Walmart for as little as $.50-$1.00 per 2 oz. bottle. Very inexpensive if you are just starting or have a small project.
Thank you so much to share with the world such a beautiful work. I wish I'd live closer to join your clases.!!! Lots of Love from Spain.
yours Maria Teruchi
Love it.i learn so much with you,about how to painted trees thx you so much.
Thank YOU!
Thank you so much to share with the world such a beautiful work. I wish I'd live closer to join your clases.!!! Lots of Love from Spain.
yours Maria Teruchi.
greatings to Vu from Vietnam. I've been living 2 years in Ho Chi Ming and 5 in Hanoi
You make it look so easy! Thanks for the informative, well described, and engaging tutorial!
+MrTeachtheworld Thank YOU!
And I so wish you could come and paint with me..my daisy video is one of the easiest to catch on ..or at least I think so. Thanks you watching :)
Hello there, I am a artist too. I've been trying and trying to paint trees for my Christmas collection of paintings and this really helped me
so simple, i will teach my kids with this technique. thank you for the video
+Rina H So sweet :)
+Mary Hildesheim we already painted it, everyone was amazed with the paint. thanks Mary
Wow Mary, you make it look so easy !!! Those trees are beautiful with the snow !!! Could you PLEASE show us how to finish that painting with the snow at night with a moon in the sky. I cant wait to paint this scene !!!! Where do you teach I would LOVE to take a class from you!! Thank you for posting your videos, you make it easy to understand !!!
Very helpful! Thank you so much! I can't wait to start painting :-D
You are a natural with the brush :) enjoyed your tutorial thanks for the lesson your awesome!
Thank yo so much Angela :)
Hi, thank you very much for doing this tutorial. Looked at some other ones but finally get it from the way you explain it. I'm learning how to Airbrush and Spray can paint and your method of painting evergreen trees will hopefully help me a lot. I also need to get a better fan brush which should make it easier.
Please make more videos! This helped me so much! Thank you. I tried this method and it came out good! I only tried the fan brush method though. God bless you and your amazing talent!
It makes me so happy that I can inspire you :) Keep painting!
Thank you Mary! I am new to painting and I am particularly interested in winter scenes and landscapes but I just could not master the trees! Your techniques were the complete opposite of what I was doing so now I'm dying to try it your PROPER way!
I don't have a fan brush so I'll try the second method until I get one.
Can't wait to try this now!
I am so glad that you will try it..and please invest in a small fan brush as most of my students prefer to paint the trees with the fan and then use the other to highlight :)
I definitely will. I was in the craft store tonight but they only had fan brushes for acrylics and oils, but tomorrow I'll go to the art supply store and get one for watercolours.
Thanks again! I'll certainly be referring back to your tutorial more than a few times!
Lisa, I am using acrylic paint and you don't want to buy a fan brush for watercolors as it would be too soft. Just get the ones that are for acrylic/oil and you will do just fine :) I'm sorry for the confusion.
Good advice! Thanks!
I take every bit of help I can get! :-)
I am going to be smiling all morning when I teach my class..thanks so much!
I like your technique Just learning and found your video very helpful for trees. I look forward to watching your other videos. Thank you. Shirley
Thank you Shirely..So glad you find it helpful :)
Thank you! You made so easy for me! I was struggling so much before!
Yes, watch the video and do what I did when I first started..practice, practice and practice. You can do this :)
I am so glad that my method helped you :) If you subscribe then you will get a notice when I post another.
You are such an amazing artist. I totally subscribed!
Wow. I love this! Thanks Mary! :)
Thank you so much!
beautiful amazing I'm so trying to paint evergreens trees thanks for the lesson
You make this look so easy to do! Mine would look like shapeless blobs.
Have to do some trees for scenery - this was so very helpful to me. Thank you!
I am so glad that I could help!
Wow! That was fantastic!! I really enjoyed watching this, it really inspires me. I would love to be good at painting trees and landscapes, please keep the videos coming!! Thank you!
+smh1128
Thanks for the encouragement! I really appreciate it!
Oh MY! You are so far away..Thank you so much for commenting :) Please watch my other videos too!
Thank you for the tutorial .. all lessons are very much appreciated....
+linda stew I am so glad that you like them!
This is so pretty I'm going to try this!
Thank you soo much for making the impossible possible Mary!🙂🙂
+Jane Davis
I am so glad you like it!
Thank you so much for the lesson. I hope it will be as easy for me. I know I will need to do some practice trees.
+Gene Kroemer
I do hope it works for you :) Good luck!
Thank you so much!! Your such An inspiration !
Your comment means so much!
Thank you so much for the demonstration! I was really making it too hard :)
+Nancy Snavely I am so glad I could help and thanks for telling me :)
+Nancy Snavely
Nancy, I am so glad that this makes it easier :)
Thanks for a wonderful tutorial.
+Anil K Grover Thank you Anil
Excellent. Really classy!!
Thank You!
very clear and nice explanations. thanks. I like your videos!!
+Irissa Elzenbaum I am so glad it was easy to understand ..that is my goal :)
+Irissa Elzenbaum
Thank You Irissa :)
oh my God such an amazing result :) must try it !!! Hugs from Italy !!
I think that is a wonderful idea :) Thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas to you too!
i like the fan brush but i think u are an AMAZING painter thanks
Thank you so much :)
Mary, wow, thanks so much for that
+alexischamp You are very welcome!
Thanks for the idea.. I'm tryinhg to do the pine trees
+April Honey Gonzalez I hope it works for you!
I am just learning to paint, I absolutely love it..Been watching your videos, you make it look so very easy.. I use acrylics... Are all your painting acrylics? Or do you also use oil? I look forward to watching more of your videos. Thanks
Thank you - very easy to follow.
+Lin Kiwiri I am so glad that it was helpful :)
Please can you keep painting in your life your to good to stop...and post more videos please I like your work
OMG this is amazing! I thought it would be so hard but after watching feel like i can do it ! hope you will do more video !!! love from Vietnam :D
I'm 13 and very inspired of ur work.. ツ ... I want to be an Artist ...
You are so sweet when you instruct... thank you Mary .. how do I see more of your tutorial videos...
+Karla Zwicker
Hi Karla, I haven't make any new ones lately but I do have several on my website..they are short and easy at mypaints.com
i love how u make it easy! thanks! love the vids! (:
so nice and such a nice person :)
I like your ever green they are realistic
+Anita Bedard Thanks Anita :)
beautiful!
+Coolnar13 Thank you!
amazing just wow so great
Thank you so much! It makes my day when someone likes it :)
yeah its really great and i really encourage you to continue
I wish you lived in Washington..I would have you come to my classes-practice is the key :)
Lovely video!!!
love this... would really like to see some Christmas paintings please ;-)
thankyou so much this way help me alot............................
+osamaartista osamaartisa thank you for the nice compliment!
Thanks so much for your video. I want to paint pine tree silhouettes on the sides of a cake. I think I will use the fan brush along with my liquid paste food color. The cake will be made of fondant with an aurora borealis theme as the background. I will definitely experiment first on a separate piece of fondant. I've piped pine trees on cakes before, but never painted them. Anything else that I need to know?
+cfleavitt
How fun! I use to paint on cookies and I also used fondant.
Amazing, Thank you Mary ;)
I love the trees that you painted. Can I do the same thing in watercolor? Alice Gustafson
+Alice Gustafson
I would think you could do it with watercolors. I always use acrylic but why not ?
Thank you I was looking for a simple background this was amazing
Thank you so much I love this!
+Gioia Tonarini I am glad that it works for you!
Wonderful!Thanks.
+Emanuela Balzarini Thanks for the comment..it helps to know that you like it
You are so welcome..Have fun painting :)
This was helpful, thank you! :)
its awesome
Fantastic!
So glad you like it :)
Thank you for your tutorial video
+yudea karunia
Thank you for writing me :)
Thank you, very helpful!
+Michelle Chronister I am so glad that it was helpful :)
Thank you..and I know that with a bit of practice yours can be just as easy :)
Hello Mary,
I love your tutortial, it helped me make some gorgeous trees! I have a problem with my brushes though. After the first time I used them (I bought the Royal 4 and 6 also have a 2) the bristles separate as soon as I put them in paint. I use Americana, Apple Barrel and Anita's acrylic paints and washed my brushes right after using them. Is this a problem with less expensive brushes or is it just me? I wonder if I ruined them by rinsing them in cleanwater and rubbing them against the bottom of the rinse bowl? I just can't seem to get the same great trees I got when the brushes were brand new. :( Thank you for your videos! I love them!
+skymama7I am so glad you liked it! I am not sure if you are using the same royal brushes that I use. Mine are hard to find but I do order them from this site: www.artistpaintbrush.com/ Here are the numbers for the 2 brushes that I use in almost every painting. SG750-1/2 & the other is SG750 3/4. They will separate when you clean them but they will come back together when you add the paint and wipe back and forth. I would also suggest that you invest in a Bob ross fan brush from hobby lobby or michaels. It is more expensive but well worth it. I hope this will help you :)
He was great wasn't he! The difference is that I am using acrylic and also I usually am double loading the brush :)
This is nice!!!
Thank you :)
Thank you, It a lot easier this way.
+Lynda ortiz So glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much! I do hope that you will please try it..
I find I get better results with the fan brush, thanks for sharing
Most of my students agree with you..I like to try different methods-that way you find the right one for you :)