Nature Painting in Watercolor

EVERGREEN SPRIGS

1 Dip your #8 round brush into some burnt umber or another shade of brown, and make a tapered stem by lightening your pressure on the brush as you move toward the tip of the stem.

2 While the brown paint is wet, tap some violet paint into the tip of your brush and add smaller branches to the main stem. Tap a little violet paint into the main stem too, letting the two colors flow into each other.

If you look closely, almost nothing in nature is a solid, one-dimensional color.

3 While the small branches you just created ...