Explore your brushstrokes
Try five quick techniques for painting effective trees and simple landscapes in watercolour, by Charles Evans
1 Begin the outline of the tree using the Rigger and yellow ochre. Mix black using ultramarine blue and burnt sienna and decide where the light is coming into the picture. Paint this black up the dark side while the yellow is still wet so the colours merge a little.
2 Change to the ¾in.flat brush and dab on a few touches of yellow ochre.
3 Follow this with a mix of Hooker’s green and burnt sienna, pushing the brush in so it spreads a little.
4 Add a little ultramarine blue for a few darker areas of foliage then add grass at the base of the tree and there you have it – Scots pine.