Watercolor Pine Tree Tutorial Plein Air for my Sketchbook Page
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- Its the first day of Spring and the weather in SC is gorgeous. I needed a full size Shortleaf Pine for my pine tree watercolor sketchbook page, so a plein air session out in my yard was in order. Follow along as I discuss painting this tree en plein air. I'm also field testing the Etchr Slate satchel, the Portable Painter and a previously unused set of Maimeri Blu watercolors. More thoughts on all those products in a future vlog.
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Interesting approach, never thought about doing the foliage first and adding the trunk and branches later. Tried this quickly and it does make painting a tree easier and looking more realistic. Hard to explain but the tree looks less "forced" and more natural.
A Great Tip - thanks
In this case I knew where I wanted the bottom of the tree on the page. I've actually painted trees in just about every order imaginable but this does seem to work well. Thanks!
OK, after finishing this video the other day, I went forth to look for some pines. In Oklahoma there are not that many where I live. I need to go a bit further to the southeast. However, I did find a few that landscaped a neighborhood. Used a pen instead of my watercolor palette in that time was not on my side. I put in the leaves/needles where they pretty much needed to be and then went back to put in the trunks and limbs. Instead of wood fencing and housing I used large rocks and turned it into a mountain scene. Definitely looked better than reality in this case. It went so much faster than normal and actually looked a lot more ‘correct’. In my humble opinion great teaching leads to a pretty good sketch. -OkieSketcher1949😊
Great video as always, sir. But I have to say, I missed Reese. Does he not like the outdoors? He comes across as a homebody, but I could be mistaken.
He hates the outdoors. I'll coax him out one day. Its the squirrels. They terrify him!
Overworking thy name is Patti LOL but I'm trying!
I love how you set up your stuff on the tripod! Is there any interest (besides me) that would like to see your Plein Aire setup in better light? I’m interested in seeing how you attach the book and the perfect painter palette to the case. I would also like to see more instruction on how you “loose paint” as this is more my skill set. Thanks again for another great video!
Super ! Vielen Dank für die Info. Grüße aus Germany von Conny.
I love this!! I love your “cloud foliage” technique. Very helpful. Thank you!
White pines, as most all pines, seem to have a tangled ‘leaves’ vs. stems and branches relationship. The way you have just demonstrated seems to be a good work around. Get the ‘leaves’ in first and them put in the branches. This should also work well with oaks, elms, plums, etc. Any chance of putting together a video of you painting an oak with lots of leaves and branches? -OkieSketcher1949
YES! It's basically how I paint all trees that are leafed out.
Just found your channel. Amazing work. I also like the cloud for reference. I admire watercolor artists. I have attempted myself with minimum success. I will try some of your tips.
Could it be my lack quality paper and brushes, be the reason I do not get the results I was hoping for?
Might be partly.
Oh this turned out to be a beautiful page Steve. I love trees so may give this sort of journal a try.
Dear Sir: you always give the paint colors you are using and I know it would be so much trouble to say where you are using those color, or what you're mixing but that would be really interesting and soooo helpful. I always enjoy the palettes you use but those beautiful muted colors I wonder how you derive them. A video about color mixing for different trees and grasses would be really great. I can see you mixed everyone of those greens as you didn't list any greens on the site.
Greens are primarily muted with reds. I may mix the greens (Ultramarine and Indian yellow make a nice muted green) or take an existing green like phthalo and mute it with red. You can also mute greens with neutral tint. The exact colors I've used is not that important. Take your palette and experiment with your colors. Come up with some of your own lovely mixtures by getting to know your colors well and trying them with each other. It's the best way to learn mixing.
My favorite channel on youtube. That is it.
Me too!! I love to watch your videos, Steve. I find them relaxing to listen to your voice and inspirational! I am going to go through all your videos again and again during this lockdown. Please be safe xo Thank you for posting everything :)
Me too. I have learned so much from Steve. (Not so much from Reese, LOL)
Steve can you do the pinecone with branch as a full tutorial with wc pencils?? Would be awesome. That is fun as christmas thanksgiving or fall card,
Really you are great artist......
Just really enjoyed watching you work, Steve. Lovely painting and great discussion, too. I get it about the shadow, but to be honest, it would drive me crazy. lol! I'm still jealous of your Spring. We've still got inches of snow outside. Thank you for this one - super inspiring! :)
Thanks Mark! It probably looked more annoying on camera than it actually was on location. I notice the camera kept changing exposure and that bothered me about the video. Part of the challenges of working outdoors. Find that perfect angle and there is almost always some drawback. Sigh. Glad it inspired, heres hoping you get a sooner than later thaw. Brrrr!
I’m watching this on Dec.30/18 and it’s a nice MINUS 18 c outside in the cold dark wind of an Ontario winter night lol. But we’ve passed the winter solstice so the days ARE getting longer! Right?
Tell me it’s so.
Please.
Haha. Cabin fever.
Now, back to the video. Thanks.
Happy New Years by the way.
Hope the better half’s healing.
Really enjoyed this video.
So, I was thinking of going outside and painting the pine across the street from my yard, but I was stumped as to how you paint a pine. So, I looked it up on youtube and OF COURSE you popped up! From one South Carolinian to another... pine trees, man! Love 'em or love to hate 'em they make an interesting subject!
Oh man you make it look so effortless to do a tree. I keep practicing, pausing the video, practicing more. So inspiring, thank you!
Is it really a pine tree? It looks like a fir to me. In any case I love the giant cone that ends up attached a true sketch book look.
Yep. Short leaf pine. Ton of ‘em around here.
Love the tip about painting the foliage like clouds. I’m gonna give that a try. By the way, what colors were you mixing for your brown? Thanks.
I squinted and looked outside at the woods through the window trying to understand the cloud affect. It did work for me and I will carry that with me when painting these trees - thanks!
Beautiful work, as always! What type of pen did you use for your calligraphy - I love the added detail of the calligraphy with the paintings.
Its pretty weird actually but its a ballpoint pen. Mainly because a pointed pen calligraphy nib does not do well on textured paper. If you use a bold ball-point pen you can get the thick thin strokes by lifting and bearing down just like the dip nib.
The Mind of Watercolor Wow, I wasn’t expecting you to say it was a ballpoint pen but that makes sense with the nib more likely to catch on the textured paper. I’ll have to give that a try, thank you! :)
I just ordered Etchr slate with Holiday discount. Thank you for advice & demos. Have a nice Holiday! Jeanne
Bottom line....your work is beautiful. And your channel is A+++++++
Wow amazing
So refreshing seeing you paint outside in your lovely sunny yard. Great set up you have and a wonderful result. I love trees but find them so difficult to paint so thanks for the tips. I live near the sea and keep promising myself that I’ll take my stuff down to the beach and paint from there.....but I’ve never plucked up the courage yet. Maybe once it warms up here.....🌞
Wonderful!
Love watching your videos. They are so helpful. Thanks.
My favorite subject is trees. Love your video. Please keep them coming.
I need to practice trees more. I still have the bad habit of trying to cover my branches with leaves and not leaving enough sky holes!
Very nice!
It's such fun watching you painting. Every time I learn something little thing more. The cloud/ foliage analogy I think is great. Thank you.
really enjoyed the video and it was good to see you using the etchr slate. I've been thinking about getting one and in all the reviews I've seen on youtube the person shows the different setups and configurations, but they don't actually use it to sketch/paint. The slate looks like the one I'll get. Really enjoy watching all your videos.
Great video Steve. I like the way you explained giving the trees proper value and depth. Your paintings are beautiful.
Mr. Steve, you sure can paint. I love your work!
If i can learn to paint values with watching and copying your vids again and again i think it will work.
And I'm a biology teacher with the worst drawing skills for online teaching.
Enjoyed the demo,how do you like the maimeri blu pigments?
So far. More to come on those later.
It's so beautiful! I love it. Would love to be able painting trees like this one time. Would you please detail how you mixed those greens? Thank you!
I love yours not over worked green light tones , they are fresh and vivid ,I guess that glazed or charged they would have lost their impact, keep working watching you painting is a joy each time
You are truly blessed with amazing artistic ability! Thank you for sharing your tips and your talent!! I always want to go pull out my watercolors after watching your videos! I love everything on this pine page!!! 😊
Great video, outside on a beautiful spring day, lucky you! Love the pine tree, appreciate the tips.
That is a great combo of overall shapes and detailed closeups. I appreciate the plein air work because you were able to distill it down into the simple tree form. Would love to see you do more plein air and how you compose/ simplify it. Thanks!
Loved it! I especially like the idea of painting tree/leaf clumps as I might paint cloud shapes.
This has inspired me to go out and paint a tree right this minute! One day, mine might look as beautiful as yours, but in the meantime, I will love my practice! :)
Always love watching you paint, especially the trees. The sound is always clear and easy to understand.. Thank you so much!
Great timing, just turned on the computer. We were out in the yard yesterday, our high was 88, hard to believe. Glad to see the portable painter, my hubby gave me one and its getting paint today. Thank you for the tips.
My watch later and painting "to do " lists keep getting longer as you bring us yet another wonderful video. If only work didn't get in the way! I can see a whole step by step series like this, one for each tree with a close up to the side. I think I need to start a tree journal, when I am out walking.
Loved to see the portable painter and the etchr getting on so well. Another apparently simple sketch which hides the skill until we try it out. Thanks
Thank you for this inspiration to get out there and find beauty in the ordinary! Your style is uniquely you, but I think I would recognize your greens in any style you might use.
Thankyou,it's simple but beautiful.
Your tree and the other paintings on the page are so realistic! It's a wonderful page! Thank you for sharing.
Love the whole composition Steve - with the giant pinecone branch! Lovely indeed.
Absolutely fantastic and gorgeous!!
It’s almost that time again. Hope to see you painting a Spring tree again.
Ok, so just remember you have plenty of fans who are heading into autumn now on the other side of the world! Luckily, because of climate change (?), we’re picking chestnuts AND having 30 degree (C) days. Gotta do your watercolour plein air fast around here, or the warm wind dries out the paper in seconds! Thanks for this great tutorial, from Glenlyon, Australia (in case your grandkids are tracking your far-flung fans on a map!).
Thank you! I love doing plein air when autumn rolls around here, temp permitting as you noted. Breezes will quickly dry your painting here as well. Goes with the plein air territory I guess.
beautiful work once again Steve. have you ever seen the watercolor work of Bill Watterson, (of Calvin & Hobbes fame?) his work is loose, bright and with natural colors. this pine tree study of yours kinda reminds me of that style.
Yes, Bill Watterson's work is a delight.
Wow Steve this page tured out just so lovely. Pine trees are so dynamic when you look closely. We're enjoying a very wet Autumn here in Eastern Australia. The sun was out this morning though and I wish you could have heard my 6 year old daughter urging me to go out into the yard with her and hunt for fungi to sketch! She packed our bag with her sketchpad, pencil, guidebook and rubber gloves for examining. We found 2 types and identified them with a guide that is beautifully illustrated with watercolours. I wonder if your beautiful botanical art could one day feature in a guide of your area.🤔😁A life goal, perhaps?
Awesome! What a fun excursion that would make, sketching fungi. 😄
You know you live in the south when you understand what he means by 'fiddling the fool out of it'.... :)
😂 right?!
May I ask do you like Etchr Satchel or Slate better? Mostly, I see you using Satchel? Great painting. I myself love illustration style. Jeanne
Satchel because I carry a lot of stuff like camera gear.
Looking good Steve on such a nice Spring day.
Really, really nice!!! You have a beautiful gift.
Beautiful. Your work inspires me to paint.
Thanks for the clouds tip!
❣️ Have you done a review of Maimeriblu? Thanks ❣️
I haven't yet. So far I like them a lot. Not easy to get in the States unless you order them. The Raw Sienna color is very weak. Its the only color of the ones I chose I don't like. I only bought twelve for the Portable Painter.
hi just wanted to know when can you make a video review about travel watercolor brushes. I would like to know which brushes are suitable for plein air watercoloring. Thank You.
You can use the same ones as in studio, you just need a way to carry them that protects the tips. Travel brushes are nice for this because they close up in their own container. There is a link in the video description to the one I used in this painting.
This video was so timely for me. I`m trying to figure out how to paint evergreen trees in watercolour and you just showed me. The cloud tip was enlightening. I wanted to show the spiky needle tips but I needed to step back and look at the clouds and make only a suggestion of the tips. Thank you.
Exactly Paulette!
The more i watch these plein air paintings, the more I want to go out and do it lol. great video super informative and entertaining as always. Cheers
Great sketch Steve, I’m working on a painting right now and I know I’m overworking it so I keep forcing myself to step away, step away, step away..... sometimes you get so sucked into a painting that you don’t even realize your overworking it until it’s too late. So are the lessons of watercolor. Thanks for the video. Blessings 💞💫
Yes, one of the hardest lessons to learn and usually only learned in degrees.
I never realized branches pointed down instead of up.
Some do.
Nice to see you out n' about with nature.... How do you like the paper? I've heard good things about it...
So far, love it!
Loose in a tight sort of way... you are too cute! Love it.
😀
Your videos are the best (watercolor) on you tube and I look forward to each. Alas we don't have pine trees in So Tx but we have lots of Mesquite! You mention you're painting on Kilimanjaro spiral paint book - I thought you had a review on same but can't find the video.
Would greatly appreciate if you could provide a link to this. Thanks for all the WC info and
interesting/entertaining videos!!
No review really. I painted the pine branch at the top of this same page (previous weeks video) on the same paper obviously and I made a couple comments about it. Its nice cotton paper and I enjoyed painting on it. Has a soft finish and lifts really well.
Thanks for the info. Found what I was looking for -- You held the sketch book up and mentioned that this sketch book has a drawing page in between each WC paper. They are on sale at Cheap Joe's and I didn't remember which of the several different ones was yours!
Beautiful sketch, Steve!
Steve, I always love watching you paint and what a beautiful painting it is. Your work looks so effortless, but that I know comes from years of painting. And as much as I enjoy watching you paint, I love your commentary just as much. I adore that you don't take yourself too seriously, are self depracating and always make me smile!! You are my favorite watercolor artist and I'm just soaking up all your artistic gifts! Thanks!!!
Thanks Linda. The self-depricating comment means a lot. I enjoy myself so much more when I don't take myself too seriously. Too many artists do already I'm afraid.
OH YEAH!!!!!!!!
I still see the graphic designer in you.
Thanks you! I love that you said that. 👍
Great video Steve! 😁 That is an awesome set up with the portable painter. I thought it looked really cool with the giant branch/pine cone coming out. I really need to practice my pine cones. 😃 I'm getting ready to do loose watercolors on my burned orchids on wood. I still can't figure out what I want it to look like & the colors I will use. I will be doing studies to figure that out. I hope you are doing well my friend. 🤗
Hey Val thanks my friend! Ooh I would love to see the orchids when you're done.
I love it.
Great video, Steve, your sketchbook is a work of art in itself. Do you keep another book for the rough stuff (concepts, experiments and the like)? If so I think it would be very useful to have a peek..
I have a couple of what I call a doodle books. I don't show that often. Just for me working out problems and making visual notes.
nice!!!!!!
Love it! Thanks for the Portable Painter tip with the Etchr products. I have the satchel, not the slate, but looks like it just might work for me too! Cheers Steve!
Yes, perfect attachment configuration for either.
I like that you added the text, explaining a bit about the pine. Also the combination of paintings on one page is very nice. Did you plan at the start to paint the 3 different views, or did the page evolve as you worked on it?
A little of both. I knew I wanted all those elements but wasn't sure where i wanted them or exactly what they would look like when I did them.
Не смотря на не знание языка,все четко,ясно и понятно. Спасибо большое!