Painting Trees Through the Seasons
Marianne Broome
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- In-depth Instruction; over 176 mins
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Understanding Tree Structure
30:11
Artist Marianne Broome shows you how to capture the beauty of trees in each season! Start by sketching trees in winter to get the basic structure in place. You'll mark in the canopy, trunk and main and secondary branches. Then, see how Marianne creates different bark textures.
Evergreen Trees
27:57
Get started with trees that don't change seasonally: evergreens. Marianne begins by painting a white pine, then moves on to a blue spruce. She shows you how to paint groups of needles and highlight individual needles for a dynamic and painterly look.
Winter: Painting Trees Under Snow
22:14
The first season up: winter. Snow clumped on trees can be tricky to paint because of shadows and curved edges, so start with a look at what colors go into creating realistic snow. Marianne illustrates how snow settles into tree shapes with a closeup of a branch and a full snow-covered evergreen.
Spring: Apple Blossom
22:22
Spring into a light, airy painting of a blossoming apple tree. Marianne shows you how to create a spring-like palette and bring life into your tree structure. Learn how to create depth for new-growth leaves and a sense of individual blossoms by picking a center of focus to boost your detail work.
Summer: Painting the Leaves
22:47
Step into the all-green scene of summer! Marianne demonstrates how she breaks down tree photos by creating groupings of leaves, making big leafy trees, such as weeping willows, easier to paint. Then learn how to create form with highlights and shadows and vary the color for a realistic touch.
Fall: Groupings of Trees & Stunning Color
22:28
Take what you've learned about leaf groupings and apply it to a fall painting by grouping colorful trees! Get painterly, working from the background to the foreground and varying the colors. Marianne selects one tree as her center of focus and shows you how to make your brushstrokes shine.
Painting the Forest
27:28
Marianne wraps up her class with a painting of a beautiful forest. She demonstrates how to use cool colors for the background and warmer colors and looser brushstrokes for the foreground to suggest depth and perspective. She also shows how to create the filtered sunlight look of a forest with vivid and varied colors.
Enhance your landscapes as you master techniques for painting true-to-life trees. Join award-winning painter Marianne Broome and start with essential skills for sketching tree trunks, branches and canopies. Get tips for painting tree bark before you learn to capture the shape and character of evergreen trees. Next, achieve the look of winter light as you find out how to paint trees enveloped in snow. Warm up from winter by painting a picture of spring: an apple tree with realistic leaves and beautiful blossoms. Move on to verdant summer scenes as Marianne teaches you her simplified steps for painting big, leafy trees. Then, capture the magic of changing leaves as you learn how to paint autumn trees. You’ll even discover Marianne’s methods for painting forest scenes with fascinating dimension.
Marianne Broome
Marianne Broome was born in England but spent much of her childhood in Malaysia, a move that deepened her passion for nature, drawing and painting. By the time Marianne was a teenager, her paintings were already being sold in local galleries and department stores. Today, she's a full-time artist and an art instructor with more than 30 years of experience. Her award-winning paintings can be found in both private and corporate collections worldwide.
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