I came here to learn some tricks and tips on painting trees, because I've only just started using watercolor and painting...and now I want this man to narrate my entire existence. :)

At almost 80 years old, this, my friend, is one of the best on trees I've ever seen. I've been painting off and on for many years, but I'm always thrilled when I learn something new! Thank you for thrilling me!

I don't know if you've been told this, but watching your video gives me the feeling like I'm watching a BBC documentary. Aesthetic and educational. I think you would be just another perfect narrator!

I LOVE how his Style of Painting with Watercolors actually embraces the elements of the Medium so it APPEARS like a Watercolor Painting! The soft washes & random, "reckless" areas he seems to encourage are what I find most exciting & beautiful about his work. Color choices are exquisite.

The BEST watercolor tutorial on trees I have ever watched! I so appreciate how you have confined this lesson to specific skills to be practiced in order to be understood. Can’t wait for the next one. Thank you so much for sharing your passion and your gift!

I was on my way to give up my watercolorpainting when I found you here. What a teatcher you are! Thanks a lot! Now I have som hope! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😅😅😅🌺

I searched for KZfaq tutorials on painting trees months ago and I was so disappointed with what I found. Your tutorial went beyond and above the rest as you explain how to paint trees in the context of where they are in the landscape. And how to merge them with the ground was such a good tip. Really good teaching, thank you!

This is a dandy explanation on painting trees, and yet out of 46,000 views only 3,100 can be bothered to like, hopefully the future viewers will correct this problem. Great looking trees by the way, even if you are just making it up as you go, works because you know what your are doing.

You had me at “Let’s get out into the landscape for inspiration.” Loved your teaching style and results. Thank you.

You are a fascinating teacher Sir! At 62, I am still a beginner and of course a learner!!!!! Thank you very much!!!!

Oliver, your tutorials are a goldmine for me. Yours is the only channel I've found that explains the small but crucial things that make such a huge difference in watercolor. You should get the Nobel Prize in watercolor (haha).. Many thanks.

I love the fences and gates that you all have there in England. They are so well built and attractive. Here most people have those welded red painted metal gates.

The eye brain relationship is complex You have a great knack for both clearly explaining and demonstrating Thank you so much So very helpful

I would love your take on the kind of trees we have in Canada. Fir, spruce , pine , the kind that keep there needles. Thank you for this video, it’s spot on and just what I needed.

Once again, you’ve taught me something. This time I noticed that my trees always look uniform. I’m going to make rougher outlines so they have edges…oh, and practice them. Thanks Olly

0:00 Intro 4:38 What we're doing 6:44 Simple background 7:51 Colours, consistency and wet-in-wet timing 10:26 Background trees 17:00 Middle distance tree examples 22:43 Middle distance trees applied 28:36 Dense middle distance trees 39:37 Foreground tree 47:57 Dry brush leaves/twigs recap 51:38 Rigger brush for branches recap 54:12 Outro Thanks, Oliver! Some timescodes for my reference.

I truly have a LOVE & HATE relationship with watercolours, but the hate comes from love so I will keep practicing watching this wonderful video that you Oliver made for all of us. Thank you so much again for sharing your knowledge and experience.

I'm a beginner in painting and I like your tutorials, a patient teacher. Thanks Joe

These middle ground trees will be my morning homework, thanks

I've forgotten how good you are! Haven't been receiving notifications.

Your tutorials are SO good. I haven't seen anything like it anywhere in KZfaq. You're an awesome teacher! Thank you so much for all the effort you put into them ✨

Thank you! I can’t wait to paint some trees 🌳 I got a rigger brush for Christmas…

Hello Oliver. I’ve spent years watching tutorials like yours and I must admit improved immensely in my watercolour painting. Your advice on layering, and being a bit more careful about the values between background and foreground just brought it home to me again. Being loose doesn’t mean being careless and shoddy. As you said very honestly, it is NOT easy. Look foreward to watching more tutorials, perhaps on how to simplify a scene ( my nightmare) Thanks very much.

BRILLIANT! This artist has taught me so much in this one video...I have learned to slow down..and think about what is happening..HE has gained a lifetime FAN of not only his works of art but his method and thinking. Everyone wanting to paint needs to see this Artist and listen to him. Thank You so much!

I've been painting for 3 years so still a relative beginner. This lesson on trees is perfection and is the best I've come across. Thankyou so much.

I love painting trees and landscapes. I’m a beginner, but with your generous & excellent tutorial I hope to improve vastly. However I do like the process of painting and buying art materials. So maybe I’ll never get good at it as suggested in your intro. I hope that isn’t the case. 🙂

Your comment at 9:15 regarding degree of paper dampness is SO important! This understanding is a game changer in the watercolor process. Once again, thank you Oliver!

Thanks. Trees are a captivating subject. It is wonderful to see how such simple brush strokes can create a “scene.”

Even though I’ve been painting all of my life, watching a fellow artist’s process is wonderful. We never stop learning. Thank you, great video 👍

I concur that this is wonderful and so inspiring, I tried a water colour correspondence course whilst working in Oman many years ago but the arid landscape was so difficult I did not continue with it. So many washing exercises that I thought when do I start painting. Now at 79 I am going to persevere and enjoy the coming spring and summer sketching some trees in Herefordshire, wish me luck and thank you, KZfaq is really great for learning stuff. I will have to make sure that I live a few more years.

This is so amazing to watch and learn from! I'm a beginner and I found this so easy to follow, no rushing, just calm and autenthic

I believe it was Richard Feynman who once said "If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you don't understand it". I have not seen a more instructive but simple watercolour tutorial for some time. Well done Olly absolutely great to watch and learn at the same time.

Thank you a lot, Oliver, for your explanations given with so much calm, patience, good sense and kindness. So interesting !!

Your explanation of your process is very helpful.

This tutorial is a beautiful Christmas present for all of us who love trees and watercolour ! Thank you Olly .

First I found him look-alike of Ben Afleck, then he also appeared like Hugh Jackman... ultimately and gradually as I kept listening I found he is being very deep discussing about process that an artist goes through. Tutorial in time lapses manner makes sub conscious mind to make great painting by snap of fingers as if these were so easy. That's an illusion and mirage. So I subscribed you and will place my requirements from time to time

This is great. I often try to paint trees but am never very happy with the results. Thanks for sharing this with us. 🙏

Love this! When I was a child I was fortunate to see Victor Borge in concert. I spent the two hours in tears because he kept setting up to play and then pulling back into a joke. I wanted the music! I’m having echoes of the same here! One demo, to me any rate, is worth a thousand words! Love it though! Please do much more.

I painted with oils for years but was really struggling with watercolours. Then I found your videos and they have opened up a whole new creative world for me. I love your teaching style and your wonderful painting style. For better or worse, I paint along with every video and I am progressing. Please keep teaching us!

I now feel compelled to paint some trees. Lovely video! Thank you.

This is such a wonderful tutorial, thank you so much for all the details and tips, I can't believe it was an hour long and I still wanted more at the end! Keep these videos coming, so inspiring!

I have been watching painting tutorials for months, as I want to teach myself to paint. Your video is very inspiring and full of awesome detail. Thank you so much for all the tips and tricks. If I may add, you're a handsome guy.

New subscriber. Stumbled upon your channel. You are crazy good. Unless you’re a natural, it’s obvious you’ve been painting for years. No struggle, confident strokes. Very articulate. I know I’m going to enjoy whatever you post.

First time watching one of your videos. Really enjoyed it. Thank you.

You are such a great teacher and thank you for so generously sharing your talent and insights. You’re a breath of fresh air and totally inspiring 😊

I have been following your tutorials for over a fortnight now and been using it n my paintings . I have seen 2 full. Ideas this being my second. Have been painting for almost 9 months on my own watching many tutorials. But your tutorials are absolutely brilliant . You teach in a manner that not only has my painting improved by a few thousand percent in the last fortnight. Thank you . But you have made me want to learn it welll and will for the next couple of month practise from all your tutorials and improve my painting . Thanks had almost forgot then the joy of learning for betterment . Thank you 🙏

Oh my, that was so helpful! Yes, trees are magnificant! I love painting trees . Very helpful tips. I’m going to try the gray shadow color. I also think your sticky mix of neutrals in several of your palette wells was useful. Looking forward to your next tree tutorial.

I love that you put the spider in a safe place!

Oh and did I mention how happy I am to see a left handed artist?

Awesome!! Looking forward to the next lesson!!

I am so happy I have discovered your channel. It's not easy to come about experienced artist like you. I just watch while I do other no brainer work, but hope to find some time to at least do these exercises.

This video is the most adorably british thing in existence and I totally love it!

Wow!! This is what I have lookwd for...a step by step explanation regarding that beautiful transparent look with distance trees. Thanks so much...

Looking forward to practicing these trees! Thank you so much!

I really adore the colors you come up with, they are so nice and soothing. Thanks for the awesome tutorial 🙏🏻

Thank you for your generous sharing of your techniques of trees.

Please keep posting...we love your tutorials...

Thanks so much! I can listen to you just for relaxation. But my brain absorbs your advice and then the desire to paint builds up - and hey presto. I learned so much from you, even if it is just the way you hold the brush - and how patient you are. Wonderful!

Thanks for producing and sharing this video. I’m sure my trees will look better after watching your demonstration.

Artist cloud saying glad to be a new member. Ps love your soft voice. Lets paint. !!

Thank you Olly! I have been eagerly awaiting this video and it is excellent, so helpful! I love that you are encouraging exercises rather than completing a full landscape!

My word, what an engaging tutorial. I love trees and have just started sketching and painting. Fertile ground indeed. I love how you explain how, why and also express the joy of doing.

Such an incredible video, very understandable even for this Deaf person. I never could understand the use of rigger paintbrushes...but now I do! I'm going to be watching as many of Pyle's videos as I can!!! Thank you so much for the artwork, teaching, and the closed captioning!

Just found you on you tube....God gave you a brush paints and the rest is history....what wonderful talent....I started watercolour painting 21 yrs. ago and have been pour painting the last 2 yrs. and I am going to return to watercolour and you are a great teacher...Love Gramma Donna

I'm not a watercolour artists, but watching you paint is just wonderful :) Your voice and how you engage is just fabulous :) so glad I found you :)

I'm getting back in to watercolor painting and pen, ink, & wash landscapes. I broke down and bought a Schminke set, and am going to try to paint an hour a day minimum, more on the weekends. I just stumbled across your channel and lead on, Master Obi-Wan. Thanks!

Thank you so much for this wonderful and helpful tutorial. My petpeeve is painting trees. Loved all the tips about brush using and color mixing. Detailed with plenty of exercises. Greetings from Canada🙏

Yes I too appreciate the way you teach. Keen to get started and practice. Thank you for your time and thought. All the comments you share - you are very generous with passing on knowledge. Please DO make more tutorials that we can practice. Love love love it.

while in awe of the paintings that you make, i am truly grateful for the learning that you also give. thank you.

Valuable work here. Thanks you, from the bottom of this budding watercolor artists heart.

Brilliant! Oliver, Your clear teaching style gives me so much hope. Thank you for bringing to my attention the ‘sticky paint’ on and thicker paint once the wash is finished. Those are two elements I’ve struggled with. I’m really learning from your videos.😍

Finding this new video on Christmas Eve was a wonderful gift! Thank you!

Thank you so much a really instructive video. I learnt a huge amount .

I am new in watercolour painting. I have problem painting trees. You have patiently explaining every technique clearly and making it simple to understand. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing, these techniques have been so helpful to me, as I am very new to painting. One of my favorite tips that you shared was on painting more natural tree trunk & branches by pushing down on the paint brush to get those variations along the edges. I have always struggled trying to get those random little "bumps" along the edges. You are the only artist / teacher that I have heard explain that simple, yet effective technique. I have watched 100's of "Tips & Techniques", & "How Tos" before I ever even picked up a brush, so although I'm a novice painter, I'm not a novice at watching watercolor videos. As much as I've enjoyed and learned in them, your video was the first to offer an "exclusive" tip, at least from my perspective, thus far. Simple as the tip is, it was the most helpful "tid bit" to improving my tree paintings, and I can't say how much longer it would have taken me to discover that w/o that your video. So, thanks again, I always enjoy watching your watercolor videos, and will continue to do so in the future.

Absolutely excellent after a few of these exercises I can alreadyvsee myself improving

As a beginner in watercolor, I watched a number of KZfaq tutorials and read a few books on the subject. Your tutorials are the best! You explained the techniques in understandable terms and the demonstrations are just wonderful! Thank you 🙏🙏

I loved the tip of the gray shade for a far away tree! Very true. I made that mistake yesterday.

Thank you Oliver. This is the first tutorial I’ve watched. I’ve been painting for several years now, and have watched hundreds of tutorials. I found this an EXCELLENT tutorial on trees simply because you went into greater detail regarding just HOW wet/damp the paper should be to obtain the all important aerial perspective of distance and the difference between background, middle ground and foreground. I’ll need to pay even more attention to the water on my paper now. Thanks again.

Thank You Oliver, each time I watch you I am learning how to use my natural abilities .

Excellent tutorial! I would love to see how you would paint palm trees. I love tropical scenes but struggle with palms. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Fascinating points about the amount of detail required in the various distances. Thank you!

Thank you so much for this wonderful lesson on painting my nemesis, trees. I have been painting for less than a year and have learned so much from your videos, especially this one. Thank you for your generosity of teaching, and all the effort that goes into making these videos. It is greatly appreciated. The color pallet that you use really resonates with me. Thank you from the U.S, Atlanta, Georgia.

This weekend, I went in search of a video on how to draw trees and ended up watching hours of Oliver’s tutorials. Great content that not only provides technique but also the principles and inspiration behind it. Well done!

Thank you, Oliver, for such a wonderful tutorial on painting trees. So very helpful!

Wonderful tutorial, you are an excellent teacher. There are many tutorials on KZfaq and a lot of them are ‘iffy’. It’s great to see someone who is the real deal. You really know what you are doing . Thank you so much I learned more in the first few minutes than on any other vid.

Thank you very much for this wonderful tutorial. The way you do it is so smooth! I wish you a beautiful, free and happy new year!

Great demo Oliver. Really enjoying your videos!

Thank you sooooo much. Best lesson on painting trees ever…..just what i needed….can’t wait to practice your tips.

Finally, I think I have found exactly what I need to paint trees. I will try your recommendation to practice more with your style of painting trees. Thank you.

Really nice!! Thanks so much for you beautifull explanations, easy, clear and so generous.

Thank you for this video. Trees are very tricky for lots of people, this is really, really helpful..thanks, again.

Lockdown has given me many gifts……. new artists to discover such as yourself Oliver and other creators. It has also taken things dear to my heart away such as getting to East Sussex and being within nature and all that it has to offer. Living in Central London I miss the countryside as travel is not easy, yet your video popped up and I thought I was watching an episode of Countryfile at first, then realised it was about my favourite thing to paint `Trees` Thank you for immersing me in an hour of pure joy, liked and subscribed !

Wonderful techniques. Practice is the best way to understand the behavior of the tools and the medium.

I loved this tutorial, especially how clearly you explain the mechanics of painting trees in the foreground, middle ground, etc. Well def try this very soon. Thank you for sharing this. Thumbs up!!

What a wonderful ambiance you've created in you videos-thank you so much for sharing a part of your life.

Thank you for bringing this content! So helpful for an artist like me learning from home.

Just find all of your videos so positive & good

This is such a helpful video. I just love the colors you use and how you make it look so easy. Thank you!!

Those summer trees are so stately and serene the way you paint them, evocative of a hot and still summer day.