Easy to Paint Evergreen Tree in Acrylics
You can learn an easy to paint evergreen tree in just a few minutes. Create trees as a background for landscapes, winter scenes or for a jolly snowman!
1.Start by painting the trunk of the tree with Burnt Umber (any dark brown will work) and Raw Sienna double loaded on the #10 flat brush.
Don’t worry about it being perfect, most of it will be covered with foliage.
Create Foliage
2. Double load the 3/4 in Scruffy brush with Thicket and Citrus Green. (the video at the end of this post will help you with that). After loading the brush pounce some off on another surface to make sure you don’t have too much and it will apply the paint properly.
3. Pounce the brush on edge starting at the top of the tree and working your way down making the foliage a bit wider across as you go.
4. Rock you brush from side to side as you pounce, each side has a different color. If one side seems to be too much of one color go over it and add the other color.
Note how this tree has mostly the Citrus Green (lighter green) on the left side
5. Come back in with only the Thicket (dark green) on the Scruffy brush and pounce it lighter over the Citrus Green
Now it looks more even.
Add snow if you like by pouncing on some white after the green has dried.
And that is how simple it is to paint an Evergreen Tree with a Scruffy Brush.
Please enjoy and share!
DLTK’s Crafts for Kids Monochromatic Acrylic Trees (Tutorial)
This relatively easy acrylic paint tutorial combines sketch and acrylic paint techniques to create the effect of a snow-covered forest landscape. We call these our tree “shadows,” but really the painted parts of this piece are meant to represent the parts of these evergreens left uncovered by snow after a recent snowfall. Although we chose to opt for the monochromatic look, this piece is great for adapting and making your own!
Painting and drawing are great for those who enjoy creating things to share with loved ones, for those who love to learn new skills, or even for those who want more art hanging on their walls!
Materials
- any size canvas (we used a large-sized 30×40 inch canvas)
- a pencil (optional; if you prefer to sketch out your ideas beforehand)
- a sharpie (also optional)
- black acrylic paint
- with pencil, gently sketch the outlines of the largest size tree “shadows” onto your canvas (TIP: practice drawing the shapes of your shadows on a piece of paper that you can later use as a reference image. You can also use the our example as reference for your piece)
- go over the outlines of your pencil-drawn shadows with a sharpie
- fill in the shapes with acrylic paint: we chose black paint, but I think this would also work well with many different colors
- allow your paint to dry fully
- add detail (TIP: add a range of medium to very small sized details [similar shapes to those you sketched for the large outlines] and add more detail where you want there to look like less of the tree is covered in snow)
- allow your paint to dry once more.
