Three Steps for Painting Realistic Trees

Learn how to paint trees with these three easy steps. Whether you’re painting a pine tree, an autumn tree, or bare tree in the winter, I think approaching them in a similar way to this can work well in most scenarios.

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Brushes used –
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Oil Paints –
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COLOR MIXTURES –
Pine tree base: Black + medium
Darker deciduous trees: Black with a touch of red/white + medium. For the small branches, I just added more medium until it was transparent.
Trees near the sun: Orange with a touch of red/black + medium.
For the trunks I mixed in some more red/black into the same mixture

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