Wintery Tree Scene - Paint tutorial

Hello I have a painting tutorial for you today but first sorry for not posting in a while, I have been away on holidays without internet but I am back to regular posts. This year I am hoping to get a post up every three days.

It’s summer here in Australia and this is a wintery painting but it was just after Christmas and I still felt festive after seeing this really cute painting on Pinterest so I gave it a go.

So the things you will need are:

- Paint brushes (in the appropriate size)

- Canvas (mine was 13 by 18cm so quite small)

- A palette

- Acrylic paint (paint colours listed below)

- Cup of water to wash your brushes in

- Some paper towel 

Paint colours I used:

-          Lamp black

-          Zinc white

-          Lemon yellow

-          Light green

-          Scarlet (red)

-          Phthalo blue

-          Yellow Ochre

First mix your black, blue and green together to get a nice dark shade. You don't want it to be too light, you want just enough blue and green so it's not black. 

Use this shade to paint the whole canvas. Do NOT forget to paint the sides!

Mix a tiny bit of your dark shade into some white to create a very light grey. Follow the picture below using a paint brush and small strokes to create a rough tree shape.

Use the white, yellow orche and mixture of red and the dark shade to use on the bottom on the canvas as the ground.

Build up the strokes on the tree using different colours. I added in a light/medium blue colour along with the purples, white and yellows.

Towards the end I added more yellows to make it look more magical but you can do whatever you would like. Don’t forget to add in a tree trunk I just did a stroke of dark brown mixed by some black!

Have a go and remember that it doesn't have to look like mine and mine didn't look like the photo I got inspiration from. If it isn't going how you would like it take a break and come back to it later.

Have fun and good luck!

audrey x