okay so once again something a little
bit different it has that even focusing
on me like help return the auto focus on
I'm doing something much much smaller
than I would normally do if it asked for
two small panels five by seven inches
and I've been putting them off and
putting them off but I'll go get them
done now except for an exhibition which
is coming up soon so I found scene I'm
going to block it in now it's going to
be a little bit different this one in
style but also in the way I paint it
because of the size let's get going
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1:39 p.m. and all is well well we've got
to the blocked in stage here so now it's
just a case of introducing some oil I
think what I'm going to show you in this
video is mainly the painting this tree
in here I mean that's the that's the
feature for this picture it's a lot
going on around it but the contrast
between these hills and this tree really
I think is makes it a nice subject to
paint so we'll zip through this bit and
then when we get to here I'll show you
how I'm going to do that
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rightio lie so I'm at the stage now
where I've finished or pretty much
finished the background area foreground
I'll do after I've done the tree and I'm
going to do the tree now and I'm gonna
show you how we do that so the tree is
still in its blocked in state so what
we're going to do is cover it with oil
and I'm going to show you and the
techniques are actually very similar to
how we do a bigger tree on a bigger
panel but just in a smaller smaller form
so let's show you how we're going to do
it let's zoom in a bit okay so I would
say this tree is probably about two
inches tall by two inches wide so just
to give you an idea of the scale of it
so it's quite tricky to get it right but
first of all I'm going to work on the
trunk and the branches so I'm mixing in
a little bit of burnt umber with that
black there and I'm just it's not it's
not jet-black it's ER it's got a bit of
lightness to it but it is done probably
the darkest bit in the hole in the whole
picture so I'll put in the trunk here
first and that comes down to around that
area there so it's quite diluted with
white spirit of color it's really really
quite quite wet there's no thickness to
it at all
so let's get these branches in they're
not they're not them I'm going to do it
all the way through some of these
canopies here just kind of just looking
so suggesting the branch is really
and I'm just using the very point of
this rosemary Co rigor brush for those
of you that are interested it's the one
I use for most of the small detailed
work it's a series seven seven one and
it's a size one
you
okay think they'll do for the time being
so now that's in and although those
branches need highlights on I'm just
going to start working on the foliage
now so it's blocked in in pretty much
middle tone I would say I'm just going
to now put in some darker areas and I'm
going to just begin with I'm just going
to try this brush here which is I know
I'm going to get people asking what
brush it is but it's just practically
probably at one time looks something
like see if I'm find no I haven't got
one like it but it was just it was just
a flat soft brush and over the years of
using it it's just one is almost
completely makkad now it's going to the
end of its life but we'll use that and
we'll just dab on the darker areas so
I'm going to mix in some of the SAP
green I've got there with a little bit
of that ivory black and maybe a bit of
burnt umber let's just see how that
looks
and can you see that it's just giving
you a slightly sort of spotty a spotty
look and just just doing that it's
really bringing the tree to life
stop mixed in a little bit of liquid
with that and what that does is it makes
it look a little bit less furry and
gives you a sharper edge so on the
right-hand side of the tree we can be a
little bit darker because that's where
the shade is why it's obviously coming
in from the left
and then on the left hand side I can
probably add a little bit of the yellow
maybe a touch of that cerulean blue
still quite dark bit more of that let's
try that that's better
okay so that's that stage done now I'm
going to put in some of the the darker
canopies that are filling up this gap
here I'll just put those in quickly and
then I'll put in the lighter canopies
over the top and then that should be
pretty much it so I'm just mixing some
some of that ivory black in with the
green that I'd already mixed and I'm
just going to put in some of these
darker areas
still adding white spirit just to keep
the flow there just soared roaring in
the darker areas as we go
okay now ready for the highlights pretty
cool a fun bit so it needs to be quite
bright so I'm going to use that Winsor
lemon but it's it's a bit warmer than
that so I'm mixing some of the cadmium
yellow and a fair amount of that stain
in white just to get that nice and
strong and also plenty the white spirit
in with it get a nice flow see how that
looks
yeah I think we could probably go a bit
thicker get it to stand out more
it's not quite as strong as I would like
it I think one way we can make that a
bit stronger a bit more punchy that is
to put it on a little bit thicker again
so I'm going to do move over to a
different brush which is a flat fine
bristle win Winton brush number one
winter Newton
it's not not too bad I'm too far off
million miles away it's more like half a
million miles away
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the thing is just to keep building up on
this tree just putting on the canopies
here until we are done I think we'll be
there just few highlights on the
branches
makes you know slightly darker green
just to fill in the shaded area so it
looks balanced don't all looking like
all the details just on one side that's
pretty good
but this tree to make it stand out from
the background it's got a lot more
saturation and it is a lot warmer than
the colors behind and that really helps
it stand forward so it's also a little
bit more contrast II than the trees
behind all the background in general and
it gives you the illusion that it's
standing standing forward standing in
front of us in the background there it's
pretty much there I'm just going to put
in a few just a few more darker areas on
this bit here just to make it look a
little bit less side and then I'll put
the open some more holes through there
don't think it needs a great deal of
extra work on it
so there we have it
that is the tree tree demonstrations
quite a nice little picture this but it
is very very small so obviously I've got
the foreground to finish now which I'm
going to do okay
Flyers been buzzing around all fluffy
afternoon so there you go that is hell I
painted that tree now I'm going to get
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