Painting Trees in Watercolour - Part I
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- This tutorial gives you an introduction to painting trees in watercolour. Trees - essential components in most landscape paintings - require a considered approach and different techniques depending on their position in the landscape. In this video, I show you tips and techniques to help you paint trees in the foreground, middle distance, background, helping you to achieve a sense of depth in your landscape paintings.
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I came here to learn some tricks and tips on painting trees, because I've only just started using watercolor and painting...and now I want this man to narrate my entire existence. :)
LOL! Yes, I need an Oliver Pyle setting for the internal dialogue app in my brain!
HAHAHAHA the literal David Attenborough of water colour experts.
At almost 80 years old, this, my friend, is one of the best on trees I've ever seen. I've been painting off and on for many years, but I'm always thrilled when I learn something new! Thank you for thrilling me!
You are a beautiful soul….and my motivation! I am just starting with watercolor and I am 53years old, live in Canada…and hope to live as much as you are just to watercolor everyday…thank you for your motivation ❤️🥰👩🎨
I'm 67, and actually I am a complete novice. But I agree with you! And I admire you so much for being a life long learner.
The comment I wanted to say...🤗
So grateful to have found your tutorials! You’re such a good and talented teacher❤
Iam almost 78 an he is absolutely the best at explaining trees. I don’t paint trees very often because i have this issue.l have painted all most my live in all meds. An have never liked painting TREES. So now i can learn the right way.❤
The BEST watercolor tutorial on trees I have ever watched! I so appreciate how you have confined this lesson to specific skills to be practiced in order to be understood. Can’t wait for the next one. Thank you so much for sharing your passion and your gift!
That's a very kind comment Gail - thanks so much.
I am not a natural artist...art, and drawing is not easy for me, but with your quiet detailed instructions and illustrations, I feel as though, yes! I can draw a landscape. I am thrilled to have found you on TH-cam. Blessings and a strong New Year to you.
I couldn’t say it any better, thank you Gail .🥰 What a great tree tutorial. The rigger brush, wet and dry textures, light and branch/trunk detail. I’m painting as I watch!
Couldn't agree more!! Wait for the next one.
Wonderful tutorial!
I have not tried to watercolour, yet. Stumbled here and watched the entire video. Interesting. Thank you for sharing your skills. Your very thoughtful and teaching voice is very soothing, instructional and easy to follow. Should I give it a go? 🙂 I paint with acrylics on canvas, so I'll need to get some paper first. Till then I'll keep watching.
I don't know if you've been told this, but watching your video gives me the feeling like I'm watching a BBC documentary. Aesthetic and educational. I think you would be just another perfect narrator!
Well, that's a lovely compliment - thank you Chonlada.
I searched for TH-cam tutorials on painting trees months ago and I was so disappointed with what I found. Your tutorial went beyond and above the rest as you explain how to paint trees in the context of where they are in the landscape. And how to merge them with the ground was such a good tip. Really good teaching, thank you!
Thanks Sherry - delighted to hear that you found it helpful.
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Oliver, your painting and teaching are top shelf. Thank you for helping me grow! ❤
Oh and did I mention how happy I am to see a left handed artist?
We have yet to be hunted to extinction Peggy!
These middle ground trees will be my morning homework, thanks
The eye brain relationship is complex
You have a great knack for both clearly explaining and demonstrating
Thank you so much
So very helpful
Thanks Julie - you're very welcome
I've forgotten how good you are! Haven't been receiving notifications.
I love that you put the spider in a safe place!
Oliver, your tutorials are a goldmine for me. Yours is the only channel I've found that explains the small but crucial things that make such a huge difference in watercolor. You should get the Nobel Prize in watercolor (haha).. Many thanks.
Oh, yes!!! The Nobel Prize in Watercolour for Oliver!!!
hahah yes watercolour is wise and peacefull
I'm a beginner in painting and I like your tutorials, a patient teacher. Thanks Joe
I was on my way to give up my watercolorpainting when I found you here. What a teatcher you are! Thanks a lot!
Now I have som hope!
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😅😅😅🌺
I've watched a lot of tutorials and I find these more helpful and insightful than most....
I truly have a LOVE & HATE relationship with watercolours, but the hate comes from love so I will keep practicing watching this wonderful video that you Oliver made for all of us. Thank you so much again for sharing your knowledge and experience.
Thanks. Trees are a captivating subject. It is wonderful to see how such simple brush strokes can create a “scene.”
Thanks Larry - that's one of the aspects of watercolour that I enjoy so much. It's perfect for quickly rendering trees.
I have been following your tutorials for over a fortnight now and been using it n my paintings . I have seen 2 full. Ideas this being my second. Have been painting for almost 9 months on my own watching many tutorials. But your tutorials are absolutely brilliant . You teach in a manner that not only has my painting improved by a few thousand percent in the last fortnight. Thank you . But you have made me want to learn it welll and will for the next couple of month practise from all your tutorials and improve my painting . Thanks had almost forgot then the joy of learning for betterment . Thank you 🙏
I've been following you for a couple of months now and I find you tutorials so helpful
BRILLIANT! This artist has taught me so much in this one video...I have learned to slow down..and think about what is happening..HE has gained a lifetime FAN of not only his works of art but his method and thinking. Everyone wanting to paint needs to see this Artist and listen to him. Thank You so much!
Once again, you’ve taught me something. This time I noticed that my trees always look uniform. I’m going to make rougher outlines so they have edges…oh, and practice them. Thanks Olly
Good to know - thanks John. Yes, uniformity and trees never sit well together.
This is amazing. I have zero skills and zero talent but I actually made a picture of trees. So pleased I found your channel
I really appreciate this lesson on trees. I have been doing lots of plein air, but now I will notice a lot more!
You are such a great teacher and thank you for so generously sharing your talent and insights. You’re a breath of fresh air and totally inspiring 😊
Your comment at 9:15 regarding degree of paper dampness is SO important! This understanding is a game changer in the watercolor process. Once again, thank you Oliver!
Love this! When I was a child I was fortunate to see Victor Borge in concert. I spent the two hours in tears because he kept setting up to play and then pulling back into a joke. I wanted the music! I’m having echoes of the same here! One demo, to me any rate, is worth a thousand words! Love it though! Please do much more.
Those summer trees are so stately and serene the way you paint them, evocative of a hot and still summer day.
I believe it was Richard Feynman who once said "If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you don't understand it". I have not seen a more instructive but simple watercolour tutorial for some time. Well done Olly absolutely great to watch and learn at the same time.
That's very kind Peter - RF certainly knew what he was talking about
@@oliverpyle-ourlandscape4442 My pleasure.
Hello Oliver. I’ve spent years watching tutorials like yours and I must admit improved immensely in my watercolour painting. Your advice on layering, and being a bit more careful about the values between background and foreground just brought it home to me again. Being loose doesn’t mean being careless and shoddy. As you said very honestly, it is NOT easy. Look foreward to watching more tutorials, perhaps on how to simplify a scene ( my nightmare) Thanks very much.
Thank you for taking the time to show what not to do, no one else does it. Great to see alongside how to do it properly as well.
Merci beaucoup pour ce tutoriel au sujet des arbres, que je consulte souvent, tant les aquarelles de paysages me tiennent à cœur.
Bonne soirée
You had me at “Let’s get out into the landscape for inspiration.” Loved your teaching style and results. Thank you.
0:00 Intro
4:38 What we're doing
6:44 Simple background
7:51 Colours, consistency and wet-in-wet timing
10:26 Background trees
17:00 Middle distance tree examples
22:43 Middle distance trees applied
28:36 Dense middle distance trees
39:37 Foreground tree
47:57 Dry brush leaves/twigs recap
51:38 Rigger brush for branches recap
54:12 Outro
Thanks, Oliver! Some timescodes for my reference.
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I loved the tip of the gray shade for a far away tree! Very true. I made that mistake yesterday.
Thank you I love the way you make it easy to paint Trees.
while in awe of the paintings that you make, i am truly grateful for the learning that you also give. thank you.
I painted with oils for years but was really struggling with watercolours. Then I found your videos and they have opened up a whole new creative world for me. I love your teaching style and your wonderful painting style. For better or worse, I paint along with every video and I am progressing. Please keep teaching us!
Thank you! A wonderful demonstration in which I learned so much.
This video is the most adorably british thing in existence and I totally love it!
This is great. I often try to paint trees but am never very happy with the results. Thanks for sharing this with us. 🙏
You and me too Jay! - it's just a case of having fun with the process and keeping on learning from what we weren't satisfied with.
I've been painting for 3 years so still a relative beginner. This lesson on trees is perfection and is the best I've come across. Thankyou so much.
I concur that this is wonderful and so inspiring, I tried a water colour correspondence course whilst working in Oman many years ago but the arid landscape was so difficult I did not continue with it. So many washing exercises that I thought when do I start painting. Now at 79 I am going to persevere and enjoy the coming spring and summer sketching some trees in Herefordshire, wish me luck and thank you, TH-cam is really great for learning stuff. I will have to make sure that I live a few more years.
Fascinating points about the amount of detail required in the various distances. Thank you!
Your explanation of your process is very helpful.
New subscriber. Stumbled upon your channel. You are crazy good. Unless you’re a natural, it’s obvious you’ve been painting for years. No struggle, confident strokes. Very articulate. I know I’m going to enjoy whatever you post.
I love the fences and gates that you all have there in England. They are so well built and attractive. Here most people have those welded red painted metal gates.
Thank you! I can’t wait to paint some trees 🌳 I got a rigger brush for Christmas…
Excellent Shari - give it a go and happy painting
Thanks for producing and sharing this video. I’m sure my trees will look better after watching your demonstration.
Thank David, and give those exercises a go - they're great for building confidence with trees.
Your tutorials are SO good. I haven't seen anything like it anywhere in TH-cam. You're an awesome teacher! Thank you so much for all the effort you put into them ✨
I am new in watercolour painting. I have problem painting trees. You have patiently explaining every technique clearly and making it simple to understand. Thank you.
Oliver Thank you; your tip to use gray is the tip I needed. The truck tip was helpful also it really is helpful. It is great fun!
Even though I’ve been painting all of my life, watching a fellow artist’s process is wonderful. We never stop learning. Thank you, great video 👍
That's very kind - thank you.
Thank you for sharing, these techniques have been so helpful to me, as I am very new to painting. One of my favorite tips that you shared was on painting more natural tree trunk & branches by pushing down on the paint brush to get those variations along the edges. I have always struggled trying to get those random little "bumps" along the edges. You are the only artist / teacher that I have heard explain that simple, yet effective technique. I have watched 100's of "Tips & Techniques", & "How Tos" before I ever even picked up a brush, so although I'm a novice painter, I'm not a novice at watching watercolor videos. As much as I've enjoyed and learned in them, your video was the first to offer an "exclusive" tip, at least from my perspective, thus far. Simple as the tip is, it was the most helpful "tid bit" to improving my tree paintings, and I can't say how much longer it would have taken me to discover that w/o that your video. So, thanks again, I always enjoy watching your watercolor videos, and will continue to do so in the future.
Just find all of your videos so positive & good
Oliver thank you for these fantastic tutorials🌼
This tutorial is a beautiful Christmas present for all of us who love trees and watercolour ! Thank you Olly .
You're welcome Rosine - thanks for the kind comments
Please keep posting...we love your tutorials...
I'm getting back in to watercolor painting and pen, ink, & wash landscapes. I broke down and bought a Schminke set, and am going to try to paint an hour a day minimum, more on the weekends. I just stumbled across your channel and lead on, Master Obi-Wan. Thanks!
I’m wonderful with pen and ink when it comes to most objects but lollipops when painting “off the cuff” trees … until this video. I’ve been creating such great watercolor trees, after watching & rewinding this; I’m getting out a piece of some quality rough paper. I’m gonna do it right, baby!
Thumbs up to ‘ya! You’ve made an old lady quite confident 😊
As a beginner in watercolor, I watched a number of TH-cam tutorials and read a few books on the subject. Your tutorials are the best! You explained the techniques in understandable terms and the demonstrations are just wonderful! Thank you 🙏🙏
Such an incredible video, very understandable even for this Deaf person. I never could understand the use of rigger paintbrushes...but now I do! I'm going to be watching as many of Pyle's videos as I can!!! Thank you so much for the artwork, teaching, and the closed captioning!
The camera is too far from the work. Hard to see the actual paint and strokes.
Your such a good teacher, I am glad I came across you on TH-cam.☺
Wonderful techniques. Practice is the best way to understand the behavior of the tools and the medium.
Thank you a lot, Oliver, for your explanations given with so much calm, patience, good sense and kindness. So interesting !!
You're welcome Christine - thank you!
Wow!! This is what I have lookwd for...a step by step explanation regarding that beautiful transparent look with distance trees.
Thanks so much...
You're welcome Gwen - glad you've found it helpful
Finally, I think I have found exactly what I need to paint trees. I will try your recommendation to practice more with your style of painting trees. Thank you.
This weekend, I went in search of a video on how to draw trees and ended up watching hours of Oliver’s tutorials. Great content that not only provides technique but also the principles and inspiration behind it. Well done!
Thank you Olly! I have been eagerly awaiting this video and it is excellent, so helpful! I love that you are encouraging exercises rather than completing a full landscape!
thanks Louise - those exercises should help and they're always fun to do.
This is so amazing to watch and learn from! I'm a beginner and I found this so easy to follow, no rushing, just calm and autenthic
Excellent - so pleased it helped, and always feel free to get in touch if there are things that seem unclear as you start off with watercolour.
I much prefer your style of painting and viewing your work. So inspirational, good tutorials too.
Hi Oliver great lessons on painting Trees. Many thanks !
I am so happy I have discovered your channel. It's not easy to come about experienced artist like you. I just watch while I do other no brainer work, but hope to find some time to at least do these exercises.
I'm not a watercolour artists, but watching you paint is just wonderful :) Your voice and how you engage is just fabulous :) so glad I found you :)
Thank you so much!
Thank you for teaching so much here on your TH-cam channel. I am so appreciative of what you are doing here.
I have just seen the distant trees & very much like it. Thank you 😊!
Love this tutorial - so explanatory and not too complicated to follow - thanks so much
Thank you Oliver. This is the first tutorial I’ve watched. I’ve been painting for several years now, and have watched hundreds of tutorials. I found this an EXCELLENT tutorial on trees simply because you went into greater detail regarding just HOW wet/damp the paper should be to obtain the all important aerial perspective of distance and the difference between background, middle ground and foreground. I’ll need to pay even more attention to the water on my paper now. Thanks again.
Artist cloud saying glad to be a new member. Ps love your soft voice. Lets paint. !!
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I am 64 and just began painting for the first time 4 years ago -- in acrylics and oil. Just two weeks ago, a friend commissioned me for a watercolor. I was intimidated by this medium until I watched this video. I painted a tree per your instruction and my friend loved it. So, now I am now going to watch all of your videos!! Thanks again!
Thank you, Oliver, for such a wonderful tutorial on painting trees. So very helpful!
You're welcome Betsy
This is such a wonderful tutorial, thank you so much for all the details and tips, I can't believe it was an hour long and I still wanted more at the end! Keep these videos coming, so inspiring!
Rewatching your video for a third time in as many months. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and taking the time to make videos.
Heel mooi 👍
Thank you so much for this wonderful and helpful tutorial. My petpeeve is painting trees. Loved all the tips about brush using and color mixing. Detailed with plenty of exercises. Greetings from Canada🙏
Greetings to you too, and thank you! Hopefully there's something there to help you with your tree painting.
Thank you so much for this wonderful lesson on painting my nemesis, trees. I have been painting for less than a year and have learned so much from your videos, especially this one. Thank you for your generosity of teaching, and all the effort that goes into making these videos. It is greatly appreciated. The color pallet that you use really resonates with me. Thank you from the U.S, Atlanta, Georgia.
Thanks for the kind comments - vey much appreciated and greetings to you Atlanta.
For the first time I’m getting it I’ve watched so many water color videos and I understand a lot more after watching this video
I have been watching painting tutorials for months, as I want to teach myself to paint. Your video is very inspiring and full of awesome detail. Thank you so much for all the tips and tricks. If I may add, you're a handsome guy.
Well done for taking up the challenge Celeste and thanks for watching. I taught myself and while there's a lot of practice and work that goes into it, it really is rewarding. Give it a go!
Brilliant! Oliver, Your clear teaching style gives me so much hope. Thank you for bringing to my attention the ‘sticky paint’ on and thicker paint once the wash is finished. Those are two elements I’ve struggled with. I’m really learning from your videos.😍
Thanks Becky. Preparing ‘stickies’ really helps.
Thank you sooooo much. Best lesson on painting trees ever…..just what i needed….can’t wait to practice your tips.
Thanks so much Suzanne - happy painting!
Excellent tutorial covering much more than just trees, particularly like tips on the overall structure and watercolour techniques.
Im so pleased to have caught up on a left handed painter/artist always having to have felt that i was being very awkward amongst the 'righties'. I love your method too, so refreshing for an newby. Thank you so much. I'm hooked. Glenda
Thank you for bringing this content! So helpful for an artist like me learning from home.
You're welcome Valerie, and thank you
I really adore the colors you come up with, they are so nice and soothing. Thanks for the awesome tutorial 🙏🏻
The video helped me paint the most reasonable background trees I have yet been able to do. Your meticulous teaching style is just what I need. Thank you. Lyn
Yes I too appreciate the way you teach. Keen to get started and practice. Thank you for your time and thought. All the comments you share - you are very generous with passing on knowledge. Please DO make more tutorials that we can practice. Love love love it.
It's a pleasure Maretta and thank you for the kind words. More to come........
Thank you very much for this wonderful tutorial. The way you do it is so smooth!
I wish you a beautiful, free and happy new year!
That’s very kind of you Marie - a pleasant and peaceful New Year to you too
Thank you so much a really instructive video. I learnt a huge amount .
Excellent Jillian - and thank you
You make it look like breeze. Thank you for sharing your magical goodness.❤
Thanks so much! I can listen to you just for relaxation. But my brain absorbs your advice and then the desire to paint builds up - and hey presto. I learned so much from you, even if it is just the way you hold the brush - and how patient you are. Wonderful!
Thank you!