Paint a Beautiful & EASY Watercolor Tree in Minutes! Great card, perfect for Beginners #paulrubens

Hi friends, I'm continuing finishing up my holiday cards and thought I would share this with you So I love washi. I love that type of look That's how i'm going to paint this little christmas tree. By the way, i'm using these strathmore cards I love them. I use them all year long. They're 140 pound cold press And they come what I love is look at this beautiful little deckled edge I even sometimes paint on the envelopes, but be really careful They're not real thick and then of course i'm using my favorite favorite paul rubens student palette under twenty dollars right now But look at the colors guys like you get every color you could possibly want. There's nothing worse than buying a palette And I do this all the time. I have lots of palettes and they don't have the one color I like but this I mean look at all the reds and pinks and blues purples You have a lot of every palette. They did such a great job with those colors They're really creamy and rich and I think right now might even be under twenty dollars All right, what i'm going to start with first and i'm using my eight round brush. You can also use my favorite which These sold out my brushes sold out. Um But I designed my brushes a lot after the velvet touch love the feel of these brushes This is the eight round. It's got a nice short handle. So really easy to use And what i'm going to do first is just wet my Tree so you may not be able to see this but I'm, just going to go in And wet this area just a regular little tree Because I just love the wet and wet so that's Kind of every year the type of tree I do. Okay while it's wet I'm going to go in and of course i'm going to do Let's see, where's my pink there's my turkey blue And i'm just going to drop that in here it's only going to go where The water is so I don't have to really worry about it, you know taking over my whole page Look at that. It even goes into the shape of a tree now the other color I want to add in here is this beautiful these violets and pinks And i'm adding a little more water than I might So The fact that it's not spreading as much as I like just means I need a little bit more water because in this case I want a lot of that spread So just adding that in look at the beautiful colors, isn't that gorgeous? Now what I might do is let me grab my palette knife. You could use anything sharp a credit card And i'm going to create just pull out some little branches here and there Look at that, isn't that perfect look at the little branches So it's what's wonderful about this is it's kind of abstract kind of loose but when I do this It's adding in that tiny bit of detail that you might want And you could even scrape on the inside just here and there And there we go. We've got a great little thick tree there. Now if that is a little too thick for you you can It's better with the tissue just soak a little bit up A little bit of that color. There we go. And I think i'm even going to dab in A tiny bit more Make sure and use that water if it's not spreading as much as you like just dab in some water Look at that. Isn't that pretty if you want it to spread more Just drop in drops of water around those edges And that will encourage it to spread but look how beautiful I might even put in a little bit more of that blue Like that All right, so I feel like i've got plenty Of color there now what i'm going to do Is create the little stump at the bottom Just like that and I love the brown with this because it kind of creates this earthiness And then maybe a little bit of That Just for Some interest there and you could tape your card down. I didn't do that this time, but Feel free to do that. Oops that went into there. That's okay. Let's pick that up See because water goes wherever I I mean paint goes wherever that water was So that's why I kind of did that i'm going to darken that up just a little bit right here There we go, I think that's fine I think what I will do here is add a tiny bit Of a blast with my heat gun. These are so handy, especially in the winter because nothing dries quick So i'm just going to turn this on real quick. These are about I think you can get them anywhere from 10 I think this one I got i'll look for my link Um was about ten dollars Let's try this real quick Doesn't take long There we go, and I just have this on velcro under my Desk, and I just stick it back under there. It's out of the way Okay. Now what I want to do is i'm going to use my q-tip And let's just put I just barely dipped my q-tip in some water and i'm going to pick up some of this gold paint And just do some cute little Gold ornaments. I want to keep it a little bit simple But I always like to kind of add that bling in so people go is that some sparkle I see there There we go. That's probably even plenty And then we will do the little gold star at the top Let's see. How should i'm debating if I should do a thick Just like that is probably fine There you go, we've got our little star and then I might even do If you had a fine liner that would be really great we could do some little Let's see How about we? Sprinkle it on I think i'll do that I'm going to do some splat. Oh, look how pretty oh my gosh, and look how simple that was And there you go Again, if you are good at calligraphy my gosh add in that calligraphy. I think could be really really pretty I'm going to add in some little Just tiny bits of See what color we got here Let me try there's our turkey blue It's a little bit darker and i'm just going to do some little strands Of the tree coming out here and there Just for some interest just flicking I mean oh so light pressure with my brush Isn't this cute I just thought this was so cute. I did these cards very similar last year for Some cards I sent out and that just creates a tiny bit of interest there Rinse my brush All right Well have fun with that. I will put all of my supplies down below but look at that sparkle So fun so easy All right, everybody Have fun most of all and happy painting. Thank you for being here with me. All right. Bye. Bye