Paint A Easy Tree In Oil | Paintings By Justin

Hey, what's up guys? I hope you guys are doing wonderful today. I'm doing great. I'm here. I mean, you know, life has been kind of weird lately, you know what I mean? I'm just, uh, I'm just doing my thing, you know, I know a lot of people send me messages all the time and they ask how I'm doing and I just want to let you know that I'm, I'm doing okay. You know, um, the only thing I can tell you right now is life has been a little bit weird lately, but you know what? I don't let anything stop me. Sometimes things will, you know, kind of get in my way a little bit, get me down a little bit, but I let nothing stop me and you should be the same exact way. You should always get up every day and just push, push and just keep pushing no matter what and just do the best that you can and just never, never let anything like really just get you down for a very long time or every day. Just fight through it no matter what it is and what I'm doing here today, what you see behind me is something that helps me get through anything and I want it to help you get through anything also and you don't have to record or share your work or do anything like that. You know what? As a matter of fact, a lot of times there's things that I do, I don't even share it. I don't record it. I just do it because I need to get through, you know what I mean? And this kind of thing helps me and I've been saying this for the lifetime of this channel, trying to get you guys to understand, like just try it, don't share it, don't show anybody, but it makes you happy, it'll make you, it just makes you, it's so hard to explain. So you should definitely try this. Today's painting, something simple. All right, let's just do a tree. Let's do, let's do a tree, something that's just going to get you excited. There's not many elements. It's just going to make you happy. It's going to make you feel confident like, yes, I can do that because you can. Let's go ahead and get started. All right, so I'm going to hold these colors up real quick. These are all the standard colors that I use. The link or the info will be down in the description. These are Gamblin' Colors. Boy, it's hot in here. I am sweat. I just realized I am really, really sweating here a lot. Forgot to turn the air on. Make sure my microphone isn't hitting my cross. Okay, so I put a little bit of the clear, clear fluid on the canvas here, all right? So I'm pretty sure it's enough. All right, so let's do this. Let's go ahead and I just want to show you. Let's make a, let's make a tree, all right? A real basic tree here. All right, so I'm going to, I'm going to just take some blue. Let's take some, a little bit of Prussian, you know what? Yeah, Prussian blue, a little bit of that stuff. Just a real small amount. Now, there's no, there's no white on here. It's just a little bit of that clear fluid I used. Just enough to make the paint slip around. So I'm going to take some of this blue and I'm just going to kind of drop it in here just to give us a little bit of a background. Just like this. And you see how sloppy that looks? That's fine. That's okay. You can't worry about stuff like that. Just get the color down. All right, let's see what we got here. I'm going to darken the top up a little bit more. I'm using a very little bit of paint. Tiny bit. I don't want to put too much up here because it's going to, you know, it's going to cause some trouble if we're trying to add, you know, colors on. Like leaves and whatever else. Start with a little. You can always add. All right. Now, I'm just going to wipe this on the paper towel real quick. And I'm going to go into titanium white. Put that here. Now you're not really going to be able to, you know, it's not going to make a huge difference but I just want it nice and light down here at the bottom. So I wiped it off and I'm just using straight up white. All right. I'm just going to get actually a tiny bit more blue. I think that will help. Contrast is a good thing. Looks good. Wiping this off. And now I'm going to just kind of transition the dark to the light. Super easy. All right. That's probably good enough right there. I mean if you want to, you can blend it real quickly like this. But you're not going to really be able to tell. I plan on putting a nice tree in here. All right. I'm going to set these paper towels right here for a minute. All right. Let me grab. All right. So I'm just going to grab a filbert real quick. And I want to. I just want to put some like little brush. This is background stuff. So you're not really going to see this. So I'm going to take some white. Some green. Some blue. And a little bit of black. I'm going to see what this gives us. And maybe a little bit of yellow too. Just a little tiny bit of yellow. Just going to wipe that off. See? Wiping it off. Like there's no real wet paint on here. All right. So you see that? I wanted something actually. Believe it or not. A little bit darker. So I'm going to add a little bit more black into that. It'll also gray it. Which is, that's cool. That's fine. We'll work with that. Because they're not super. Actually they're not really super far away. They're somewhat near us. You know what I mean? You see this though? It looks like crap. It looks like garbage. You just have to believe in yourself a little bit from time to time. You're never going to. Your painting's never going to look perfect when you're working on it. When you're six inches in front of it. You got to give it a little time. You have to give it some time. And just kind of work on it. You know? Step by step. And just have a little faith. You know? Pretty much. It's all you need. A little faith. Just darken some color here. See? A little bit more blue and black in there. Should make it a little darker. Blue, black. Maybe some green. Blue, black and green. Want to have a couple. Just a few little. A few little dark spots in here maybe. It's working. Remember there's a big tree. I'm going to put a tree in here. I always. You know why I like painting trees? If I'm not in the mood or I'm having trouble. Or something like that. That's when I like to paint some trees. Because they just. They're easy. They're very easy to paint. And it's just one of the easiest things. And you should try it. You should definitely try this. Let's go ahead and take. Let's grab some yellow. Let's go right into some yellow. It's going to turn green. Because of the colors that we had. On the filbert. Some yellow. I just want to. Whew. Wipe some of that off. Nice break. I just wanted to drop in some. Different color here. I'm just touching and spinning. Doing little things. See. I'm trying to get a little yellow ochre mixed in there. Keep in mind. There is a tree coming right down the center here. Yellow ochre. To pop up behind the tree. Look like a little bush back there. Maybe. I don't know. See that. So I don't know what this is. But somebody will know. What that is. When. You know. When they look at the painting. Later on down the road. They'll say. Oh check that. Whatever bush. You know what I mean. Alright. Now. I need to get. Some more of our black. And our blue. And maybe a little bit of that green. Nice dark color. I just want to. I want to put. There is a couple dark areas. Before we lay the tree down. So I just want to get some of that dark. That dark value. In here. So this way it's there. See. Boom. Done. A couple of tap. Tappity tap things. If you want. Alright. A little contrast. A little dark bush. Maybe sticking up here. Something like this. Alright. Here we go. I'm going to take. The filbert. Yeah. I'll start with the filbert. And I'm going to go into. I'm just going to go into. Some brown. And I'm going to start. Making the trunk. Of the tree. Start off with some brown. Touch of black. Maybe. Yeah. Touch of black. Okay. Let me step back. Take a look here. Alright. I want to make a nice. I want to make a big tree. So it's going to come down. Like this. Alright. It's one side. Okay. And I'm just going to kind of. Let's see here. I'll just start here. I want this to be a very. Very big tree. See. So that's kind of like the outline. Right there. Put a little guy here. This will get you. This will get you in the mood. That's for sure. Batten that up. Don't worry about none of this. You just have to relax. And be loose. When you're doing this. Relax. And just be. Be loose. Alright. Don't worry about little things. Because it's not going to help you. Trust me. Alright. Just getting these basic little. Areas in here. I mean this is a big tree. Okay. I'm going to just take some of this paint. And just kind of. Start getting it in here. See. I'm telling you. If you have something going on. In your life. This is going to help you. Believe me. Trust me when I tell you that. There's so much going on right now. This is definitely. Helping already. Okay. See. I'm just kind of moving this paint around. I mean this is a huge. Big old. Big old tree. Just kind of work some of that. Paint around. See. Alright. Grab a little bit more color here. Like that. Nice little. Little guy here. This will make it look better. I always like putting these little branches in like this. Just kind of helps balance. You know. Helps balance the tree out. In my opinion. Make a little. Couple little things there. Okay. Keep stepping back. Because it's so important. When you step back. It's super. Super. Super important. Alright. I'm just going to scribble. Some of this brown color in here. Okay. Because we'll be able to pick and choose. If we want. You know. Some of the roots. In here. Alright. So there. There's that. Now. Alright. Let's go ahead and. Well heck. We might as well just. I'm going to use some black. Green and blue. Might as well keep using the filbert. Because. Seems to work. Seems to be working. Alright. I'm just going to come right down here. Scooping all this heavy. Pile of paint up right here. Heavy pile. What's in it. What's one of these episodes. Without me. Saying words that don't. That just don't. Have any meaning to them. Or. Sentences that. Don't make sense. I love doing that. But hey. At least I. You know. Admit my. My faults. Or whatever. No worries. Alright. So look. I'm just scribbling the color. The paint. Around. Boom. Like this. You can use a one inch too. If you want. Use your finger. Two inch brush. Doesn't matter. Really doesn't matter what you use. That's the biggest thing. People. A lot of people will. You know. Ask me. Oh what. You know. What brushes exactly. Did you use. And you know. It doesn't matter. I'll tell them. Or I'll tell you what. You know. What I'm using. Or what I used. On painting. If I didn't record it. But. I promise you. It doesn't matter. It's not matter. Take your socks off. Use them. They'll work. And I'm not joking. I'm not. I'm not even kidding. Okay. Something like that. I mean look how loose and sloppy I'm being here. Now. I think what we need to do is. I'm just going to go into a little bit of yellow. It's going to just lighten the color up that's on my brush. Alright. I'm just going to fill that little spot in right there. Okay. And if you want to. You could take some more yellow. And if you want to add just a few little. So it's not so. Dull with one color back here. Behind a tree. You can do that. Alright. A few little. Things. Like this. There's a bush here. I don't know. Something like this maybe. It's up to you. It is up to you. It's up to you. I'm just trying to get you going. Alright. Let's do this. Still. Filbert here. Let's start. Let's get a few highlights on this tree. So let's. I'm going to take. To start. Let's take some brown. And some white. Alright. Brown and white. To start. And I just want to. Just kind of come in here. And just start getting some nice color. On the left side. Is where I'm thinking. You know. That maybe the light will shine. On this tree. If you want it on the right side. You can. Have it right on the right side. No big deal. Alright. This branch is going to. Come right in the front like that. Let's just do the. Big main areas here. First. So you can have a. Idea. Of where things are. You'll start to see the tree. You know. Maybe come into life. A little bit. Alright. Loosen up. Remember. Some roots here. I was saying. Possibly. Maybe there's a root. That goes right. You know. Off the canvas. Like that. Front too. Just think about. You know. Where. Light would shine. Or whatever. You know. And if you're not sure. Just kind of mess around. A little bit. I'm going to wipe this off. I'm going to stick with the filbert. Just for right now. Alright. Let me. Take. I'm going to take some. Now I'm going to take some white. And some yellow ochre. White. And yellow ochre. Alright. I'm just going to try to hit some of the main. Highlight points. Because. I think this is the easiest way to do this. There's plenty of other ways. To do this. But. You know. I'm just trying to show you what I think. Or what works for me. See. I'm just holding the filbert. Nice and. Carefully. With pressure. I'm just dropping it down. You could put snow on mountains. Doing. Holding the brush just like this. As well. See. Alright. Now. Let me. Alright. So I wasn't going to be too worried about the top here. But. Because there's going to be some leaves. Up here. But let me just do this real quick. Just in case. Just in case some of it shows through. I guess it would be nice to have a little highlight there. See how easy that was. Alright. I'm going to wipe the filbert brush off. Just wipe it off. Good enough. And I'm going to start. I'm just going to start breaking up. The back line here a little bit. Just kind of. Just so there's no real straight lines. Okay. Like right here is a good example. Alright. Like this. Borrow some paint. If you want to steal it from here. Bring it over to there. Do that. And I'm making all kinds of textures now. Into the. Tree. You know. Sorry for yelling. Alright. Now. Let's take some black. I'm going to take just pure black. Pure black. Alright. On to the filbert. Now. I'm not too worried about up here. I'm going to kind of. I just want to get some of this dark color in here. Get some of this dark color. This is going to help. Kind of you know. Contrast. You know. Kind of bring things around. And I keep loading up. So this way it's not mixing. Okay. See. I'm painting very loosely here. Nice shadows. Alright. Love this. See that. Nice dark color in there. Sweet. Right here. Alright. This is fun. I like this. Oh man. I just forget about everything. I'm doing this. That's why I do it. That's why I want you to do it. I would not steer you in the wrong direction. This helps life. Alright. Here we go. Now. Alright. Let's go ahead and start working on some leaves. Got me some Dr. Pepper right here. I'm going to stay with the filbert. Let's drop some leaves in. I'm going to use some green. Alright. Green. A little bit of black. A little bit of blue. Green, black, and blue. Drop in some leaves. This is going to be my tree of hope right here. This is going to be green, black, and blue. See. Look at that. Put some paint. Green. Black. Blue. Now just, look at this. Just get it in there. Get that color down. See. Get it in there. Let a little bit of that trunk show through maybe. That's what I was saying earlier. Maybe if a little shows through, we'll let it. We will let it show through. Alright. Actually, you know what? While we're sitting right here. Let me actually. I want. Oh. See that? Done. Done, done. A little branch. See how easy that was? Don't waste time worrying. Just grab your filbert. Make a branch. Okay. And don't be afraid to go over top of the tree. You know. The trunk. I mean. Nice. That's nice. Tree of hope is what we have here guys. Tree of hope. Lord knows. I need it. Lord knows I need it. Sure he does. That's why he introduced painting to me. He knew I needed something. Or I wouldn't be here. That's for sure. I'm here. I'm staying. That's also for sure. I'm, you know, pretty sure obviously. Can't be 100% sure, but I'm here. I'm just adding these little leaves. See that? Little ones drop down like that. And this is so awesomely easy and great. Make sure we have some going right over the branches. Like this. And just like that. You know. And make sure that you step back. Step back and actually, you know, take a look at your painting. Because here's what happens. If you don't step back, right? If you don't step back and take a look at your painting. Then you're, you know, you're not going to really see the full effect. The real effect of it. Okay. So take a minute. Step back. I'm going to tap just a few areas in. Okay. Just all this is going to do. Because we were kind of swiping. Right. So I want to tap because it's just going to give a little bit of a different feel. Maybe texture. Background. I don't know. All right. Some of it might show. Somebody will see it. Okay. Just got to do these things. Okay. Let me show you something else you can do. Wipe the filbert off. Give it a good wipe. Let's go over. Let's grab some white. All right. And a little bit of blue. White. Here we go. White and blue. Even though we already started putting some leaves in. If you want, you can drop just, you know, a little of this blue color in. And this will just, you know, give a little, a different element to your picture. You don't have to do a whole lot of it. But, you know, you can put some in. All right. You don't have to do this. But you can. Why not? Why not try it? All right. Wipe that off. And just kind of stir it up a little bit. Give it a little stir. Just so there's no straight lines. All right. And it's there. Like, you know, it's there. I don't know what else to tell you. It's there. Take it or leave it. Let me see something real quick. Let me grab some of this yellow over. I don't know how this is going to look. I'm just going to see something. Just give it, give this a little different element. Not too much. You see? You see how loose I'm doing this? Loose. Loose, loose. All right. Loose. Don't be all tightened up and worried and stuff. Okay? All right. Now, definitely want to mix that up. I don't want to destroy everything. Make sure that nothing looks symmetrical or anything like that. Now, keep stepping back. Because I see something here. Let me grab, let me grab some black. I feel like, for some reason, we need a nice little something. Okay? Right here. Something right there. Maybe this tree has a little dark spot right in the middle. Keep working. You know, you got to do these things and just experiment. Experiment. That's how you learn. By really experimenting, it will, it will teach you. All right, so that gave it, that gave it a little bit of, you know, contrast, which is awesome, which I like. Now, this dark, where I put this dark in right here, if you wanted to, you could make it look, let's get some yellow ochre and white. A little brown, maybe. You could make it look like, like a little crack in a tree. If you want to, you could just drop some little highlight on it. Right there. You know? Drop some there. And this, you know, you could spend a lot more time on this, but you could make it look like, you know, there's some, some ripples into the tree or whatever. All right? And just for the, just for the heck of it, I'm going to grab some straight white paint. Because I feel like, I feel like I want that to show. Okay? There. So that's nothing on the top. Some white paint. Roll in that filbert. See that? All right? You see? It just kind of gives it a good feel. So let's face it. That's what we need right now. We need a good feel. You know what I mean? All right. Here we go. Filbert brush. Yellow. Filbert. And some yellow. All right? Now, I'm not going to go nuts with this, I don't think. I just want to try to. Might as well just keep using the filbert, you know? Right? I'm just going to see the best way I want to do this. Tapping maybe. Yellow ochre in there too. Let's see. Maybe I'll do it like this. Yeah. Just kind of, just kind of holding the brush a little sideways, you know? Just to give an indication. And we could actually tap some of it, I suppose. Just be loose about it. See? Just kind of show some color in there. I'm actually going to wipe this off. Back into the yellow. I'm going to come right over here, maybe. Tapping some of this color here, I suppose. See what this gives us? Actually, I'm just going to swat it around real quick. Because I want to leave a lot of the dark. Into the, into the tree. I'm going to leave a lot of that dark in there. Right? I just want a few light spots. So you guys can see what's going on here. So I'm going to keep reloading because it's important to keep on reloading. A lot of texture on this one. Over the branch. Super important. Over the trunk. That dark is important. You know what I mean? So I'm stepping back and I'm looking at this. Here and there. Into there, maybe. And into the tree. And things wherever. Alright, wipe the brush off. Let's wipe it. Nice white paint. And some yellow. Nice light, bright color. Now, normally, you should probably switch brushes. I'm going to stay with the filbert. Alright, nice bright color. I just want to pick out a few places, maybe. Here, maybe. See how this looks. Kind of rolling the brush and get some more white. Nice and bright. Got a lot of paint on here. Got a lot of paint. I'm just going to roll it on a few spots, you know. This is a nice little highlight. That's all I was thinking. I want some of it to, you know, stand out. Like maybe the light's shining here. See that big old clumps of paint on here, boy? Because I just don't care. I don't care. Because this makes me feel good to do it this way. Some more white up in here. Some yellow. I think there should be a little something. Yeah, there we go. And maybe something's hitting here, too. You know what I mean? I don't know. Hitting wherever you want it to hit. A few little spots, you know what I mean? Let's just do... There. There's got to be something there, too, right? What kind of stuff going on? Got a few right over the branch there. Those leaves are going to grow up there, too. You know what I mean? And then, I think maybe... Yeah, it's so fun and cool. You know, just a few, I don't know, a few there maybe. Tap here and there. Just so nothing appears to be too straight. Light is blasting in onto this tree, everybody. It is just like, really just blasting around, you know what I mean? All right, let's wipe the filbert. Set it down real quick. I'm going to grab just the 2-inch brush. Or the 2-inch, the 1-inch brush. The one that we used for the blue, all right? And I'm going to go into some yellow and some green. Yellow, green. Just straight up paint. Put it on the 1-inch. And I'm just going to try to be easy about this. Let's just do this. I'm just going to start... I want to put a little grass in here. All right? A little yellow ochre in there, maybe. Just want to get some color going here. Maybe there's a hill here. Okay, just tapping it. Tapping it in. See that? You can use a fan brush or use, you know, whatever you want, really. Once again, take your socks off. Use them if you'd like, you know, to make the grass. All right, now, let me do this. I need a little bit more yellow. Just add a few little highlights in here on this grassy area. And like I said, you can use the fan brush. Touch of green, yellow. Green and yellow on the 1-inch. Here we go. Light's shining in. A few little highlights. It's important to leave the dark, though, because if not, it's just not going to look right. You know what I mean? Let's do this. A little moss growing here in this part of the tree. It doesn't have to be a lot. Just a little indicator, you know? That's all that matters. Indication. Just kind of sitting there in the land. Let me grab some white and yellow. It looks like a dirty color. White, yellow. There we go. Just one more little thing, you know? A little bright spot here and there. There's a bright yellow. Just tells you the sun's shining, you know? I love doing stuff like this because it's fun. It's just fun. You see there's a couple bright spots there. All kinds of fun. A little alizarin crimson mixed in with that yellow. Let's make a little thing back here. I don't know. Add a different element. Different color. Brighten it up a little bit. Add a little bit of that color. Crimson. A little crimson. Crimson. All right, now. Let's do this. I'm going to thin some paint down that I just put my liner brush in and went directly over top of my Dr. Pepper. Excuse me. 100% confirmed in my Dr. Pepper for sure. A little bursty, so I'm not really worried about that. It's the least of my worries, actually. Eating paint thinner, least of my worries right now. Put a few branches in here. See? Just little things, little details. Like this, you know? Like this. Just really kind of, you know, really spice it up. You know? How many times have I said, you know? A little wiggler here. Happy to be making a video. Honestly. You know, you guys always say how much you need me, right? I get a lot of people that say that. Well, I just want to make sure that I say this. I need you just as much as you say you need me. So remember that. Get some stuff back in here. Just get a little branches down here. I mean, you know, just whatever. Just put them wherever you want. See? But this here, I'm going to call this the tree of hope. Okay? A little wiggler right off the edge there. Alright. And Do one thing here. Just thinning down some yellow and green. I just want to drop in like a piece of grass or whatever. You know? Here I go, you know? You know? You know? Just, you know, something to whatever. See? Loose and careless. Careless. I'm telling you. Careless. Alright. I don't know why. I'm going to take some of this crimson and put my big signature on here that people sometimes wonder why I do it so large. Like this. And the answer to that is because I don't plan on selling the paintings. I have a bond with them. I like them. When I paint a picture, I can look back and say, Oh, I remember that picture that I painted. That's the day I felt like jumping off a bridge. It made me feel better. It's worth more to me than any amount of money. Alright? Alright, well, I hope you guys enjoyed this particular video. I hope this is something that maybe you tried or maybe that you will try because it's definitely easy and I promise you you can do this. Go down in the description. All the colors are down there. They're very basic colors. They're made by Gamblin. And I just want you guys to do this. I want you to feel better because I realized something. Everybody that you pass walking down the road struggles with depression or sadness or something. Everybody that you walk by struggles with something. I try to use that and be nice to everybody because you never know. Maybe hold a door for somebody or just do something nice for somebody because you just don't know what it could do for them that particular day. I'm speaking from experience. I hope you guys take what I'm saying with a grain of salt sometimes. I'm just here to try to do the right thing because I love you guys With that said I'm going to end this video. Don't forget to like, share, subscribe. Do all the stuff which will help the video get out there and it will keep me on YouTube and I will see you in the very next video. God bless. I love you guys.