HIGHLIGHTING LEAF TREES

In a post we made a week ago we made a blog about highlighting bushes. So how do you highlight leaf trees? This technique can be used to highlight bushes and is just about the way I paint my bushes 80% of the time, because I just love the way it looks. So lets get started! In this small clip you can see how I layout the highlights by taping on the leaves. But how do you load the brush? You want to load the brush in the highlight color you choose, but load it into a crunched brush which is by just taping or crunching the brush into the paint. Your paint should be thinned down with a touch of Amazing White medium to make the paint creamy. You should see little bushes in the paint when your highlighting or a little pull. This is how you know your brush is loaded right here is little photo of a textured ceiling. And this is something common in most houses. So take a look up. That's what your paint should look like on your palette.  Here is a little photo of a textured ceiling.

See a lot of texture in the paint. The take it to your tree and just touch and if you loaded it correctly, the leaves should just come right out of the brush. Now many brushes wont do this. So I recommend my 1 " landscape brush you can find on my online store. Now when the highlights start to work it will feel good too good and you will want to highlight the whole tree but don't get crazy you need the dark to show them highlights. In the clip above watch how I pick out individual limbs of the tree and highlight them and leaving in the dark's. I hope this blog helps you until next time ill see you real soon!