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Paint Abstract Nature with Acrylic Layered Tree, Leaves & Sky for Beginners

teacher avatar George-Daniel Tudorache, Together we will create amazing things.

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Welcome to the class

      0:46

    • 2.

      Materials needed

      1:17

    • 3.

      Gorgeous blue

      3:12

    • 4.

      Green patches

      7:17

    • 5.

      Earthy tones puzzle

      6:24

    • 6.

      Smaller brush, smaller shapes

      6:16

    • 7.

      Color and composition

      4:37

    • 8.

      Color Bridges

      4:41

    • 9.

      Last highlights

      8:54

    • 10.

      Learning how to make branches

      7:50

    • 11.

      Thin branches Thank you

      9:23

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About This Class

Abstract Foliage Tree: Easy Acrylic Painting Class for Beginners

Welcome to this fun and relaxing abstract painting class—perfect for beginners who want to explore the beauty of nature through expressive color and texture. In this class, we’ll paint a stylized abstract tree, with rich emerald and sap green foliage, and soft glimpses of the cerulean blue sky peeking through the branches and leaves.

This is about learning how to paint abstract foliage using acrylics in a loose, intuitive style. You'll focus on creating a balanced composition and capturing the feeling of light and nature using bold, layered brushstrokes and harmonious colors.

In this abstract acrylic painting class, you’ll learn:

  • How to paint abstract tree foliage using emerald green and sap green

  • Simple acrylic techniques for blending and layering colors

  • How to create a sense of depth and sky using cerulean blue

  • Expressive brushwork to build movement and texture

  • Tips for developing confidence in your abstract painting style

No prior art experience is needed—this class is designed especially for beginners who may feel unsure about where to start. You'll be encouraged to let go of perfection and enjoy the creative process, learning how to trust your instincts and express yourself freely through abstract shapes and color. It's a supportive way to begin your journey into acrylic painting.

You'll be guided step by step through every part of the process, from building your background to adding the final expressive details. Even if you've never painted before, the clear and simple instructions will make it easy to follow along and enjoy the experience.

Whether you're brand new to painting or want to experiment with abstract art for the first time, this class will help you get started with easy, approachable techniques. You'll finish with a vibrant abstract painting inspired by nature and full of your own creative energy.

So gather your acrylics and let’s begin this abstract journey together—one colorful layer at a time!

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George-Daniel Tudorache

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1. Welcome to the class: Welcome to another interesting painting class. In this class, you will learn how to make this wonderful tree with some beautiful sky and some foliage. This class is specifically designed for beginners who want to learn about composition, about how to create clean colors, about brush handling, and all of that while creating a wonderful Hi, my name is George, and I've been a professional artist for over ten years. Six years ago, I've fallen in love with teaching, both online and in person classes. By working with both adults and children, I've developed a very interesting way of teaching that focuses on making engaging projects while having fun and learning about painting concepts. If that sounds like something you want to do, let's jump into the class. 2. Materials needed : Hello, and welcome to another beautiful painting course. For this course, you will need a canvas. It doesn't matter what size it is. This is 30 by 30 centimeters. You can also have a rectangular canvas. This is going to work on any kind of canvas, even if it's a round canvas. You will need a mixing plate. I've been using this one for a while, so it has a bit of a stain. You will need a big flat brush, a tiny flat brush, and also a liner brush. This is going to be a landscape painting, so you will need some water, the mixing plate, as well as some acrylic paint. This is titanium white from Amsterdam acrylic paint. This is azo yellow medium. You can also use lemon yellow. This is just lemon yellow with a bit of red. This is carmine red. Brown, also known as burnt umber and brilliant blue. You will also need some paper towels in order to clean the brushes and maybe touch up some of the canvas. 3. Gorgeous blue: For the first step, you will need to add some blue to the mixing plate. Some white. As well as a tiny bit of yellow. With the big flat brush and a touch of water on the corner of the brush, take about half of the blue and a lot of white. Mix it in quite nicely, creating a beautiful light blue. Let's mix it in with more white and add a touch of yellow. Just a touch of yellow to make the color a bit more interesting. Once you've done that, squeeze the brush on the plate. Take some of the color and start in this beautiful corner, adding an interesting shape, just going from the corner down. You don't have to cover it perfectly. Just imagine as if it's a sky, just a bit of sky over here. Now over on this side, from this corner, a smaller shape. You can also take your time and practice some brush marks. They are very useful to understand what your tools can do. Like, notice it can make a small little line. It can make a big one. And then you can cover them, take some of this paint over here, so it dries a bit faster and continue to brush over. And let's create some smaller patches like over on this side. Taking some more, covering, making a flat color everywhere where you desire. It doesn't really matter where you put this color. I would stick a little bit to the top side just because sky color sometimes is on the top and sometimes is on the lower side if it's a river or something else. You should also Think of the shapes, creating a big, a medium, and then smaller shapes, take some water, so the paint glides a bit better. And this is a great time to think of edges. Like, notice how you can make those edges more interesting and also fix the fact that they are fuzzy in some areas. Let's take a bit more color and add it over on this side. And that's all you need for this beautiful step. 4. Green patches: This next step, you don't need to let the paint dry. You can also add, if you still have some color, just clean up a bit of these edges and finish up the color you have on the brush. After you do that, you can clean it by adding some water to it and squeezing the paint out. You don't have to be perfect with that. You need to add some brown to the mixing plate. You already have the other two colors, which is yellow and blue. Starting with some blue, let's add it over here. Add some brown to it. Just a touch of brown, making it very dark and some yellow. Don't worry if your colors look different. It's gonna work any way and shape. You've created a beautiful dark green. If your green is too blue or too yellow, just add the opposite. Like if it's too blue, add more yellow or more brown, or if it's too yellow, add more brown or more blue. Okay, let's take some water to make it run a bit better, squeeze some of that paint out of the brush so you can mix it thoroughly. And now start on the edges right next to the blue. It's going to pick some of the blue up. That's fine. It's creating a wonderful gradient, and you can also mix it up. With the blue onto the mixing plate so that you get more flat color. Now, this is the moment to think of edges. You create interesting shapes by going inside just a bit of the blue and sharpening those edges. Okay. And going a bit inside, you don't have to think too much about the placement of these shapes. All you have to think is big, medium, small, big, medium, small. That's all you have to think, creating shapes that are big, medium and small. Notice how it took some blue over there. Let's mix over and create some interesting outlines. This is a very important step to create complex outlines. You can think of the edge of a shape as big, medium, small, as well. So medium, small, big. So you create complexity in a very seamless way. Okay, let's take some water and find another place where it's too where the paint and the blue is too calm. And let's create some edges that are different. Okay. And as you go, you will notice that the color becomes thinner and it also picks up a lot of the blue from the sky. But that's fine. You can go ahead and mix it again and again until you have a different shade. Notice how it's much more turquoise. Well, not a lot, but just a tiny bit. Let's create some more edges over here, and notice how these shapes are too much of the same. They have the same size, the same shape. So you have to decide which one to make bigger. And different? Same over here. Let's make this one a bit bigger. And instantly, you've created a different type of communication between shapes. Let's create another one over here. Avoid having straight, very straight lines because this will be a tree. You don't have to think of it as a tree. You have to think of it just as colors and shapes because whatever you do in the background, it doesn't really matter. All you have to do is make interesting shapes and interesting colors. Okay. And as soon as you finish this color, you can take some more yellow, mix it over the color, take a bit of water, just a tiny bit, so it mixes faster. And just like that, you have another green. With this green, you can do one of two things. Can either go close to the blue and create shapes the same way or close to the green connecting the shapes. But don't go into the colors. You don't want to blend them together. You want to keep them separate. Okay. And create a big one, a medium one, and now it needs a small one. Perfect. Creating some more edges that are nicer and then going and adding close to this green, another shape. Okay. And over here, squeezing that paint out and going closer to the blue and over here, me big shape. Small shape and continue on until you finish the color, creating more shapes. Big, you can go faster or slower. Taking a bit of yellow because the color is a bit darker now. And just continue with this color, creating some small shapes here and there. We are just waiting for the blue to dry a bit and painting in between the areas for a tiny bit. Okay, creating another shape over here. On the lower side and one going out, cleaning up the brush faster and more loose. And that's all you need to do for this step. 5. Earthy tones puzzle: The next step, you're going to need to add a bit of yellow right over here at the top and take some of that yellow, add it to the middle of the plate, and with a touch of brown, just a light touch of brown. Maybe that's too much brown, but in fact, it's a good color. Just creating a brownish green. Let's take a bit of blue. And it's a beautiful brownish green, preparing ourselves for beautiful and vibrant color. You want to add this color. Let's add some water so it glides a bit better. And let's add it and cover some of these areas of white. Notice how the white dictates how the shape looks, and it's a much easier way to create these abstract shapes this way. Okay? Big shape. Let's add some over the green. And notice this white spot over here. Let's add a touch of color over there, and big shape, small shape. Let's make it a bit more organic. Let's go over here and do the same shape, big, and then small. Notice how this color is much more of a earthy tone. Usually, beginners don't choose these colors because they don't feel they are good enough. They are not vibrant. They are not they don't say much, but they are very good colors because when you add something that's more vibrant, like a very intense yellow or green or something that is very potent. You have a space where to put the color. It Colors only are vibrant in comparison. They are not vibrant on their own. Well, they can be, but in comparison, they create a lot more contrast. Let's fill in this space. Over on this side. And the blue is almost halfway dry. So you can after the complete dry of the blue, you can start to do some more interesting things. For now, you've just filled in the canvas as you go and adding some shapes, big, beautiful green shape right over here. And, of course, smaller one. You can reduce the idea of big, medium, small to big and small as well. Just because maybe you don't have enough space to add a medium shape. Okay? Let's cover this corner, as well. And just to change the color, let's add some yellow, quite a bit of it, creating a more vibrant color. But still, it's not at 100% vibrancy. Okay, mix it very well, squeeze the paint out of the brush, and then continue to add it in between covering some of the white as you go, as much of it as possible. And creating a beautiful intersection in between colors. You don't have to blend them together. The goal here is to keep them clean and tidy. They can blend a bit, but not just by accident, not by choice. Okay. And going up on this side, creating this beautiful shape. Let's take some more of that color and fill it in just over here. Over on this side, going and in between the shapes. You can also switch to the other smaller brush if you want. It's a bit better to try to do it with a bigger brush because it goes faster, and you can learn a bit of brush handling. Notice how you can use the brush on its side or on its corner to cover some areas that are smaller. And even if you don't get the desired result, you learned something. But it's gonna look amazing anyway by the end of it. I know it looks kind of funny right now, but it will look quite interesting as the blue dries. So for the next step, you will need to let the blue dry completely. You don't have to let the green dry just take a finger and see if the blue is dry completely or look into the light, like move a bit and see if the blue is wet or not. Let's cover a bit more of the paint, and there you go with this step, as well. In the next step, you will need to let the blue completely dry and take the small brush. We're going to recreate some of the colors as well as make some more interesting vibrant versions of them with a small brush, and we're going to create a beautiful foliage. 6. Smaller brush, smaller shapes: But the blue is dry. I've noticed some spots over here, but that's fine. Some white spots. That's just an opportunity. Let's take the small flat brush, take some yellow, mix it in over on the side, take some blue. Creating a green and just add a bit of brown to cut it out and make it more natural looking. You don't want to jump in with vibrant color instantly. So let's add it and continue the shapes. Now, focusing on the edges, making some runaways, as well. Runaways are just shapes outside into the blue. Notice how this is just a great opportunity to make a bigger shape where the white is and then a smaller one next to it. And inside the greens, you can add wherever you see some white, let's focus in on just the white parts at first, wherever you see some white of the canvas. And if you don't have any white and you've done a better job than me, then you can just add it over on the blue where the green and the blue meets, as well as inside of the green. Some small shapes. You're focusing on making it seem like it's foliage. That's where the big and medium and very small shapes come in. And this is what's going to make the whole blobs of paint and the shapes look like they are small leaves. You don't have to make a lot of them because you're going to make a lot more colors as you go, and you're going to have the opportunity to make many more shapes, many more small leaves. And going and adding some more over here, maybe on this side because there is some white and covering this with some color as well as this. Wherever you see some speckles of white canvas, just add a small little divt of paint. You can go and make the shapes a bit smaller, the blue shapes. You can go a bit wider with the brush and create some interesting shapes, making the green's a bit more big. Depends on how big you made the initial blue shapes. And continuing focusing on the edges where you see white and just to jump around the canvas to trick our brain into thinking that we are making trees. It's very important to jump and do things over here and then jump over here a bit more chaotic. The painting might feel right now that it's going into a wrong direction, but this is just a point. There is a point in every painting where it feels as if it's the worst. But that's just the point in which it's just going to grow to a nicer place and become a better painting as you add more things. So focus in just on covering some of the white spots and maybe going inside of the blue to create some shapes. And going around, you've waited for the blue just because this way, you have just a clean color. It doesn't pick up any of the blue, so it doesn't mix into the green. So you have cleaner colors. This is one of the tricks to use with acrylic. You have clean colors by just focusing on the color itself and then letting everything dry. And then you go back with vibrant and different colors as you change the color palette. And let's add some last brush marks with this color. Notice how much more complex the painting is and try to find areas where it seems too open to. Like, for instance, this is so contrived. Let's add some more dots and spots to break that monotony, adding some more complexity. Okay. So more white over here, creating a bigger shape of this color. And just to take some of that color from the plate, you can add it and make a bigger shape. Everywhere you decide that it's needed. You don't have to think about it, if you see a white spot, just cover it with this color, and it will fit nicely. And that's all you need for this step. In the next step, you'll add more yellow and create a more vibrant color. 7. Color and composition: For this step, you'll need to take some more yellow and add it over the green, creating a lighter version of this color. Mix it very well. Squeeze that paint out. Oh, no. The brush started rolling. Mix it very well. Once you have that, you can start to add it like you did with the other color. And continuing to make the blues a bit smaller. Like, for instance, let's add a bigger shape over here of this color, thinking of the big and small and medium. But this time on a smaller scale, like, notice that this would be considered a medium shape in the grand scheme of things. This was a bigger shape beforehand, and then this was a bigger shape. So you go in and add complexity and detail to a smaller degree. And let's add some more of this color. You can add it inside of the greens as well to cover some of the white of the canvas. And over here, there is some white. This edge is a bit fuzzy. Notice how these shapes are too similar. So let's connect them and then add another one smaller and another one even smaller next to it. There is some white over here. And some white over on this side. Let's focus in and find some more white spots. This way, you don't really have to think too much when creating the painting. You just have to find the white spots and then add a bigger shape and then a smaller shape. And that way you create a lot of diversity and a lot of abstract shapes. Okay. And let's make this a bit more opaque. And over here, Oh, no. I picked up some blue, but that's fine. We're just varying the color a bit. That's a good sign that we should end this step. And over here, there is some white. You cannot see the difference, even though there is a bit of a bit more blue into the color. You can't really see it just because you're not adding it over the yellow. Just trying to find the white spots, trying to not miss any of them and adding some more diversity of color over some areas. And wherever you see a boring spot, just add a bit of color. Like, for instance, let's look for a boring part. Like, over here, notice how it's a 90 degree angle. Let's break that down, add another shape, and now it looks much fancier. And over on this side, creating more highlights, let's say. And white and over here. And I'm noticing some over on this corner and some over here. Just cleaning up the brush. Let's find a spot maybe over here and clean up the brush onto the Canvas making a shape. Remember to make it interesting by adding some nice edges to it, and then making a smaller shape next to it and another smaller one. And you can even edit some of the shapes inside even more if you find some white spots or if you feel like there is, like, this line that could be a bit better. So let's break it a bit by adding two shapes inside. Okay, and that's all for this step. 8. Color Bridges: The next step, you're going to need to clean a bit of the paint that you have on the small brush and take some yellow, mix it in on a side of the plate that is not has no color. And you want to make a green that's a bit more yellow than green. So it has a lot of yellow inside of it. This will be a very light green, okay? And start by adding it over the yellow parts you've just created just so it doesn't feel foreign. And sometimes you can add it in spots where you still can find some white and continue developing this foliage. These small dots rotate the brush, so it creates a different mark and create more complexity by adding small little spots of color. You can go inside of the green. Don't forget to do that. It's very important and create some small pockets of blue, maybe by connecting these two areas and find areas where you can connect the greens and leave out some of the blues. It's very important to give the impression that there aren't just shapes of blue like this, maybe creating some interesting bridges, maybe over here. Just create a few bridges so that it breaks the shapes, and it creates these small pockets of sky. Like we can add some of this color over here and maybe let's add some more color over on this side, connecting these almost connecting these two areas and making another color over here. Okay, and building a bridge maybe over on this side, almost touching, but not so much. But over here, we can actually bridge it. Don't worry if they look off, we're going to go into other colors and make them look a lot nicer. Just concentrate on adding some small shapes of color and sometimes adding some bigger ones, and then some small ones and connect. Focusing on the edge. That's where you're going to find the most texture and the most interest. And sometimes add another shape inside just to balance things out. Find the white spots and paint over them. You can go as fast or as slow as you want. Okay. And let's add some more over here and over on this side. You can also go outside from the blue and add some shapes like this. Maybe there is a branch just going out from there. That will create a lot of variety as well. So find a spot, like for instance, this one and add some dots and shapes. If your colors are too transparent, you might need to add another layer. The way to combat that transparency is by using thicker paint or better paint. Some cheaper acrylics are way more transparent just because they put more water or whatever it is. And for the last drops of paint over on this side. And that's all for the step. 9. Last highlights: This next step, you're going to need to add some more yellow to the plate, maybe not that much, and mix it in with just a touch of blue. Or if you still have the green that you used earlier, just mix it in with this color. You can also add some blue. Let's add some blue, so you notice how much yellow you need in order to create a lighter version of the last color you've created. It's almost 100% yellow at this point, but it does have some blue in it. Okay? Once you've created that, squeeze the color out, just so you mix it better and start adding some of this color. First starting over top, the last color you've added. If you have too much paste, like I have, just move around, placing it in different spots and then go back where you've added the thicker paint and take it from there and spread it around. Okay. And it starts to look better and better as you go. You add a lot of color variety by just mixing lighter shades of the same color and complexity. Notice how this is now not just a ring of color. It's more than that because it has two shades. It doesn't have just only one shade of green. Okay. And adding some more over on this side. Notice how this is very small and alone. You can add some more paint around it to add the complexity back in and make it more interesting. Okay, focusing on making bigger and smaller shapes. You can also connect some of the areas and then make a smaller one next to it. Go a bit into the blue and over some shapes that are too flat. Creating some more interesting shapes. Look at the edges and find areas that are boring. Like, for instance, this is very boring and it has some white as well. So it needs a bit of texture. Notice that we're not going like this with the brush. We're trying to make flatter shapes, not going and dabbing the color on. This is a different type of painting technique. A more interesting one, creating flatter surfaces. Now, focusing on making the colors. You've added a lot of complexity and a lot of small shapes with this color and other colors. So you might need to create some bigger shapes like this to add a bit of calmness. Now you're focusing on the very complex areas and calming them down and making them a bit less intense and chaotic. Making bigger shapes so that you calm things down. You take some of that detail out. You go back and forth, adding detail, taking out detail. And let's focus in on these bigger shapes, just adding one or two dots of paint. And let's add more yellow. Now it's almost 100% yellow. Okay. And let's find an area over here to add some of this color and over here. Maybe on this side, there's a lot of paste in this brush. So we're trying to take it back creating some sort of a bridge, maybe a bigger shape over here, smaller one. Perfect. And over on this side, taking some more of that color and adding it in the middle of the shape, as well as onto the darker spots and in the blue, creating more complex shapes. Try to move around quite a bit, just to let your mind not focus on making the same mark everywhere. The more you move around, the more easy it becomes to just create abstract shapes. Let's create sort of like a light color over here, a light passage. And over on this side, maybe over here, where they meet a bigger shape, and then smaller ones and breaking this shape as well a bit more adding some more texture. Well, not really. You don't want to add too much texture. You want everything to be a bit flat. But if you added some texture, that's fine. And let's focus in on the last spots. If we see some white, we're going to have to dab, like here and here. And over here and maybe on this bridge. And over here, and over on this side, there is a bit of white just showing true and some boring areas. Okay. And this is a time where you take a step back and you focus in on what you've learned. You've learned how to make big flat areas of sky. You've learned how to play with big shapes, small shapes and medium ones. You've learned how to create natural colors and darker ones, and then let it dry and go to a lighter shade to create texture and detail. You've learned how to keep things abstract by not thinking of making foliage, but by just focusing on the white spots of the canvas. And you've learned how to edit shapes and edges to create a very complex and natural looking foliage. You've learned about colors, how to create earthy greens, dark greens and more vibrant. Speaking of color, you've also understood that to create vibrant colors, you need a place holder, like earthy tones, darker shades of that color that will elevate the beautiful vibrant greens that you've created. You've also learned that you need to let things dry before you add a different color so that you keep the colors clean. You've learned how to use the big brush for big areas and the small brush for small details. Now you're going to use the smaller finer brush to create some wonderful trees. 10. Learning how to make branches: The step, you're going to need some brown onto the mixing plate. Let's add it over here. And a touch of red. You still have some blue. If you don't have it, you're going to need to add it. Let's mix on the plate, some brown, some blue. And with the small flat brush, just because you want to cover a faster, make the bigger branches first, you're going to need to start from the bottom, maybe on this side, just so we balance out the composition. Notice how it's very heavy on this side. Starting the tree on this side, you need to decide what part of your composition needs to be balanced. If it's heavier on the right side, then you want to start the tree on the left side. Start by making a beautiful branch, just going over. Take more color. You need to mix a bit more than usual, just because you want to have this color be opaque from the first layer so you don't have to work too much. But you also don't want to have a lot of texture onto your branches. That's created and add some wiggle as you go. These edges need to be very crisp. That's why you need to go back and forward to the mixing plate to add a bit more color. Now, right over here, you can add another branch just going out. Of this tree. You can also add a bit of water, not a lot to make it glide a bit better, so you can move a bit faster. You can move a bit faster by just creating longer branches and then focusing on the edge afterwards to create that ruggedy look of the branch. Okay. And going onto the left, onto the right, actually, and creating this branch. And adding some more as you go. Imagine going and doing the branches, these thicker branches with a small Eady beady brush. It would take a long time. So make longer branches, extend forward, and then going to the right side. And then you can start to focus in on the edges at this point, making them a bit thicker. And as you go further, the branches become thinner and thinner. Let's go with this branch towards the left and take it out of the canvas. Perfect. Okay, and make it thicker over here. Let's go over on this side, creating another branch. Notice how you need to extend it quite a bit just so it doesn't feel like a stump. But you can also make stumps, but make them purposefully. Like, make them seem like a stump, not end like this, which is very pointy. Okay. And going into the blue, creating a smaller, finer branch, if that's possible. In this case, it's not, but let's divide it. Notice how dark this color is and how beautiful it creates now the tree, and everything starts to make sense, even though it was just an abstract painting until now. Now it's foliage and sky. Let's move further with this branch and continuing. You can also overlap some branches. This is very important. It creates a lot of depth by overlapping the colors, the branches, actually. I don't know why I keep on saying colors can make this one thicker just because it's joining it from the bottom of the tree, so it might be a bit thicker. Okay, you can add more color, more brown and start adding some runaway branches that go on this side. And maybe some of them they come from the lower part of the tree. You're looking up. That's why you don't see a lot of a lot of the Well, you don't see any of the ground. That's because you are looking up at the sky and at the tree. Let's go over this and start creating some more branches just going this way and this way and maybe over here. And as you go, you can create more complexity by dividing some of the branches. Try not to make them very round or very broken. You need to have a variation in between the round. Like, notice how this is very round. Now, if you add a straight branch, that will balance it out. So it will seem more organic this way. Okay, at this point, we might need to change to the other brush, but before you do that, focusing on the edges. Wherever you see a bit of fuzziness, or the branch is too straight or too pleasing, you can add a bit of rugged texture to it. Okay. Let's continue this branch. And in the next step, you will focus in on making smaller branches with the thinner rounder brush, with the liner brush. Let's clean this brush and go in and make some of the thinner ones. 11. Thin branches Thank you: Okay. So for this step, a good rule is to add a bit of water to the paint. You can use just brown with a bit of red, just to change the color. The branches need to have a bit of variation. You've added the blue, and now you can add some red into it. Notice how it's a bit more different. And this is not the thinnest liner brush just because you don't want to go into too much detail. Thing with branches is that if you go and add a branch over here, for instance, and if you start a branch exactly on the opposite side, it looks like a fork, and it doesn't look too organic. So try to avoid making forks. Just put your pinky finger like this to get more control over the brush and start by just continuing the branches further, making them thinner as you go. Take some more paint, maybe add a bit more water just so it runs a bit better. And continue it only lets you paint for a few centimeters. So you might need to go back to the plate and add more color. Okay. And continuing this brush, this branch over here. Okay. Going and dividing it, making it a bit more opaque, and then dividing it. This one needs to be longer. Go slower to get more control. And then going to the right side with another branch and a bit higher and continuing this one, making it longer. And over on this side, making another branch going out of it. Now, try to find some spots where the branches feel too long in certain areas, like, for instance, here. And a good way to think of branches is that they don't just go out of the branch. They have a little bit of a curve and then they go out. Okay, and continuing to brush, the branch and dividing it up, and notice how it's too straight and long. And once you do that, you can focus on other branches, just making them longer and maybe dividing it, taking some more paint and adding just the end of the beautiful branch. And maybe this one is dividing lower on the lower side and notice how it ends up abruptly. So we can add a bit more length to it and a bit more to this one. Maybe it goes outside of the canvas. Notice how long it is. We can go out with a brush mark and then go back and create that curve. And continue it lower, divide it up and over here, and continue it outside of the canvas. Okay, let's make this one longer and go outside of the canvas. This one, as well, and this one. And let's make a few more, and the painting will be done. Notice how this one is very long on the left side just because it's difficult to make branches going this way. So let's add some like, right over here. And let the brush wiggle a bit. Let it. If you have a more shaky hand, that's good, it makes the branches look a bit more organic. Okay. And on this side, it's a bit thin, so let's add a bit of this and add another branch just going out. Notice how this is just a stump. Let's continue it over on this side and divide it right over here where it already has a beautiful curve. Okay. And making it lighter.