Watercolor Forest Landscape Painting: Learn how to paint watercolor trees in mist and birds

My latest watercolor class includes a full tutorial of painting trees in a misty forest. This class includes video with complete voice over in real time as I take you step by step to complete this watercolor landscape. The first few lessons of the class include supplies, understanding value, and brush techniques. And there are two practice lessons in creating a ‘mini mountain landscape’ that you can practice before starting on the larger forest painting.

Two ‘Mini Landscapes’ and One large landscape painting are demonstrated step by step in this class.

Supplies

• Round number 6 or 8 and a larger round like a 10. (I used Mozart brushes, but Princeton Neptune is my favorite by far. Silver Black Velvet pointed round brushes are great too, I use a size 6 for the birds and tree detail.
• liner or rigger brush (mine is size 0)
• a large mop or large flat brush (basically any large brush that can hold enough water to wet your paper thoroughly for the wet into wet technique.
• a fine mist spray bottle is helpful but not necessary (mine is called Master’s Touch and it’s from Hobby Lobby)
• Paint colors (Sap green, perylene green, indigo, payne’s gray and in some areas yellow ochre or raw sienna sparingly)
• Arches 140 lb cold pressed paper
• I also used a 12×12 inch watercolor block of Arches paper for the mini landscapes
• tape optional to create a white edge.
• salt optional for abstract effects