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Tree Painting Step-by-Step Demo: Forest in the Style of Klimt

By Marion Boddy-Evans, About.com

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Building Up Color in the Forest Floor

Tree Painting Step by Step Demo -- Tree Painting in the Style of Klimt

Getting the overall tone right, not too dark and not too light.

Image: ©2007 Marion Boddy-Evans. Licensed to About.com, Inc.

These photos show how I built up color on the forest floor using various colors, painted in short lines. By working in a consistent direction, the lines give a feeling of direction and height to the forest floor, as if the trees go up a slight hill.

The colors used include a little of the cerulean blue used for the background of the sky, the green-gold, raw umber, and quinacridone burnt orange.

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