This is June 21st and the 2nd day of the 7 Day Blog Challenge with Jeanette Cates, this is Ellene Breedlove Davis.
Last weekend some of my students suggested that we paint trees in our next workshop. This got me to thinking about how to teach a student to paint a tree.
What do I tell them? When you once paint a tree, you will never look at trees the same way again? When there’s a bigillion leaves on trees in summer, how do you paint folliage so that your viewer is familiar with your impression?
There are a number of ways to approach this subject – Wet-in-Wet, scumbling, and drybrush details. Another way is to use a sponge, this give lots of variety once the sponge is damp, this technique is good for painting loose leaves on trees.
Have you tried to spatter through a hand torn stencil or an irrugular cut piece of paper?
I think my old stencil brushes make good spattering brushes, the bristles are just resilient enough to make good spatter.
Remember you are painting many many leaves, there is no way to paint each one, so experiment. See which stencil or brush or sponge will give the effects you were looking for.
I would be honored if you would download your short report to the right. I welcome your questions and comments
Ellene
Ellene Breedlove Davis
http://ElleneBreedloveDavis.com
