A watercolor Tree Swing for this Spring day! Perfect for beginners using a fan brush

Hi friends today, I thought I'd play with this fun little tree I was going to try and do it in a short, but it's so hard to get everything in in a short Um, I want to give you as much information as I can. So i'll just start with my supplies I am using my my langs beautiful vibrant creamy can't say enough about these They're excellent for a beginner because number one they're a reasonable price, but look at these gorgeous Colors, they're violet purples are just Beautiful, they're pinks and reds and blues. You've got your browns and greens um And this whole palette I think is about 17 Many times you can get it for 15 and i'm hearing from so many of you that you're getting it and absolutely love it As much as me So this is the palette I paint with every day Today i'm painting on my artisto pads um Beautiful texture. They are not 100 cotton guys but You guys are loving these and they're so fun because I label them and then I journal all these I just stick them in My cupboard and I have them for seasons or I use them for color swatch sheets They're fabulous and you can't they are perforated so you can tear them out and give them as a gift or Frame them, but they've got this really lovely lovely texture and I love them. I this is what I paint on every single day I've got some paint here on my hand um And then i've got my meat and palette which I love when I paint at home because it is heavy It's all ceramic, but it's got beautiful deep wells and huge mixing spaces And I have my rinse and my wash water And let's see. What else? Oh, I am using my six long round Uh princeton today and I like this because it has a really nice little point on it And then i'm using this fun little brush. Um, I just happen to have this one. I don't even know what it is Karat, but i'll find you. Um, I have other ones It's a little fan brush and we're going to be painting some little trees. I thought this might be fun I played with this this weekend and I really liked it and I thought I might want to share that with you I'm going to go ahead and dip my brush. Let me grab my paper towel Uh dip my brush here into my water And then I just tap it off a bit. I don't want too much water and i'm going to do my branches I think i'll use you could either use a black or a Van dyke brown, I think i'll use this van dyke brown Which is quite dark. I could even add some black to it if I really wanted to And I always tap off On the side, so i'm not going into my paper with a huge Amount of water in there because that's harder to control So this is about 50 pigment 50 water And Let's see. Okay So i'm just going to go in and using the tip of my brush So i'm holding a little bit farther away than I might normally I hold a little bit closer down to the ferrule So I have more control over my brush strokes, but today for the tree. I want a little bit more freedom um, so That's what i'm going to do with my brush I'm going to start here just with the tip anchoring my hand on the side And I might get larger smaller and i'm just going to start Having fun. I'm going to add a tiny bit of black into that Just drawing some Fun little branches here coming out and then i'll add on more later Something like that And now I want to work a little fast here because i'm hoping that might stay a tiny bit wet Dipped my brush in and what a fun little brush that is. Isn't it guys? You can make all kinds of fun stuff with this And i'm going to go into my green And i'm just going to start wiggling this brush I mean look at the fun little Shapes i'm getting with this so I was looking at these japanese Palms and Different pictures and these came up and I thought what a fun tree to paint And they kind of had these little poofs like this And I just thought they were so fun. I mean look at that that could easily be done, right? And how easy was that what I want to do is I want to go in here i'm going to rinse this brush And as that is drying, I mean literally this could be all you do And you could even go in and maybe add some little Branches here and there just to give it some depth You could do a little dry brush here I mean, but what a simple little card this could be what I want to do is go in Really rinse my brush here And i'm going to pick up some of this gold in my palette So that is yellow ochre and I might mix it with just a tiny bit of green And then i'm going to go in And i'm getting quite a bit on my brush because as you can see This brush doesn't hold a ton. It's got a lot of little leaves and I might just go in And i'm kind of wiggling my brush and I just want to add little highlights here and there But look how much fun that is. I mean you could really play here I could even go back in and add some darker colors underneath So wash and rinse my brush and maybe go in and pick up that Olive green and go in And just touch in on the bottom and i'm just wiggling this brush around But it really creates some fun Little textures and what's really cool about this. I know you guys ask me all the time. How do I leave white space? Well, how easy is it with this because the brush? little The brush hairs are already kind of separated So that's basically all i'm going to do with that and what a fun little tree So I wanted to hop on here and share that with you. You could also end it by let's get some light green the one thing I will tell you is this thing's a little bit challenging to um get Um in to fit in your little pans because the brush is so wide Kind of a funny challenge. Oops. Let's see. I think what I want to do is Let's pick up. Oh, oop. Got a loose hair there pick up some of that and I'm just taking a wet or damp brush and Kind of creating a little bit of ground there and then Just some little grass growing up this brush really can be awfully fun Turning I always i'm always playing with my brushes and turning them backwards and forwards seeing what kind of strokes I can get And then maybe just go in there I mean you could take this as far as you want And add in some tiny little yellow flowers I mean what a sweet little tree if you're good at calligraphy you could then go in And just add some A cute little word here And what I liked about what I automatically do is I brought in the different greens down here which kind of tie in The top of the the painting and the bottom and if you see here, I also added in yellow which kind of brings This coherency between the yellow and golds up in here and down in here so I always am trying to do that kind of Add in my colors everywhere, but how cute would this even be with a little swing hanging down I could do that Let's see how good I am at that didn't plan that so bear with me here We have a swing tree in the neighborhood here, and it's always so beautiful. I think what i'll do actually is use that gold brown Mix it with some of my brown There we go and Just add in a little I didn't plan this guy so Like I said bear with me on creating this little swing tree or swing Something like that. I mean how sweet I probably would have actually brought it down a little bit farther And there you go How fun is that? All right, well happy painting guys I like i'm trying to create some um Fun or easier things i'd like to give you a challenge every month So we had a few challenges the last week and this is just kind of a fun little one I will find this brush. This brush is quite old for me. So I've never even heard of this brand c-o-r-o-t. I don't know guys But i'll find you a little fan brush And this is as always my little six long round, you know, I love that and my paints Um, let's see free drawings This probably won't be a drawing but don't forget to check out my free drawings on my website under free resources for each month and If you want to check out my brushes i'll list that link there, too And I think that's all thanks so much guys for being part of my little community and um Most of all have fun with this wonderful medium. I'll talk to you soon