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Watercolor Painting Video: How to Paint Winter Trees

Learn how to paint winter trees with hardly any leaves, using watercolor.

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Learn how to paint winter trees (without hardly any leaves, mainly bare branches) for a landscape painting. Just three colors are used: cobalt blue, burnt umber, and yellow ocher. The watercolor is painted using a no. 10 round brush and a rigger brush, which is ideal for creating thin branches and twigs. (Note: You'll need to turn the sound up quite a bit to hear the narration -- and remember to turn it down again when you're finished watching!)

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