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Christmas Tree in Forest Painting
In lesson 5 of the Learn and Master Painting course, we start by practicing with a gradient. I’m not going to bother photographing my gradient work. Then we learn how to make hard and soft edges of different types. The teacher shows many different examples of hard, soft, and lost edges and you can follow along and make your own. It is great how she takes painting step by step and I like how unlike a real class, I can go back – months later – and watch a section of the DVD painting video again.
Christmas Tree in Forest Painting by Christopher Johnson
Lesson 5 ends with the painting of an evergreen tree with other trees merging in the background. Her evergreen tree is much prettier than mine, but I guess that is to be expected. In this painting she shows us how to use negative space around objects and we continue to practice varied strokes. We also learn massing to create the tree in the middle of the work.
Winter Tree Branches and Tree Branch Study
Due to problems with my Internet provider I have several paintings to add to the blog. Enjoy!
Winter Tree Branches Painting by Christopher Johnson
As part of the Learn and Master Painting course, I had to learn how to make different brush strokes. I couldn’t practice the strokes exactly as instructed since I don’t have an easel I can stand in front of while painting, but I tried. I later made a more free flowing winter tree branch artwork for fun with a smaller wood panel.
Winter Tree Branch Study by Christopher Johnson
The study uses oil paint while the winter tree branches artwork is in acrylic. The colors are different in the works because even though the tubes show the same color, they are not the same. The burnt umber oil paint has a strong red tone while the burnt umber acrylic was more neutral. There is also some more variation in color because I added more white to the lighter trees in the acrylic version. I didn’t feel I had enough contrast in the winter tree branches study. I am sure I will try some more of these in the future!
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