Painting Birch Trees and Mountains with Acrylics in Under 15 Minutes!

Today we paint a couple of birch trees framing our mountain river scene in under 15 minutes! This is a real time acrylic landscape painting tutorial for beginners.

You can find my book on the essentials of acrylic painting here:

You can purchase all materials listed below using the link provided.

Paints:
PRIMARY BLUE (By: Liquitex Basics)
PRIMARY YELLOW (By: Liquitex Basics)
YELLOW OXIDE (By: Liquitex Basics)
MARS BLACK (By: Liquitex Basics)
TITANIUM WHITE (By: Liquitex Basics)

To try additional colours we recommend:
48 PIECE ACRYLIC PAINT SET (By: Liquitex Basics)

Brushes:
LARGE SQUARE HEADED BRUSH (Artists Loft)
MEDIUM SQUARE HEADED BRUSH (Artists Loft)
SMALL SQUARE HEADED BRUSH (Artists Loft)
SMALL ROUND HEADED BRUSH (Artists Loft)
OLD SQUARE HEADED BRUSH (Unbranded)

Water:
Um..tap..

Other:
8”x10” CANVAS PANELS 12pk
66”ADJUSTABLE EASEL

[marymullins]

Thank you so much! I love that you explain what you are doing!!💗

[Bohemian-Nilda]

You are such a wonderful instructor! Thank you so much for sharing your art techniques with us! I appreciate all your help!

[nangustafson]

Fab! Continue with these 15 min paintings, they not as rushed as the 10 min ones were. Thanks for all of your tutorials!

[MHarenArt]

I like that your heading says "in under 15 minutes".  10 minutes, although it works for many paintings, is really not quite enough sometimes.  I enjoy working on them for another 2 or 3 hours adding my own details and preferences.  But ---- these are amazing tutorials to teach basic skills such as perspective, color mixing, composition and --- CONFIDENCE!!!!  I have come to use them for  tune-ups and confidence builders on a regular basis!!!!  Thank you Ryan!!!

[markculuris]

Ryan. Your voice and vocabulary is refreshing, wish I had an old flat brush. Thanks

[MHarenArt]

I LOVE this one!  I'm not following along on tutorials as much as I used to but still enjoy your 10 minutes paintings!  I think they are an excellent lesson in building confidence and in making decisions about what to paint where and when, if that makes sense.  Although of course I can pause and take all the time you want, I like working as fast as I can along with you. I find it extremely valuable.   Will be trying it soon!

[kayjohnson]

Thank you, Ryan. this is a very good teaching lesson.

[golammorshed]

your painting lessons are worth my time

[trs]

Hi Ryan, every thought about making these 15-20 minute paintings, and spending 5 minutes demonstrating a handy technique on some aspect of each one. Such as _"this week our 15 minute paining will include some cloud and we'll focus on getting really realistic clouds in a quick and easy way"_. The following week might be another nice landscape, but where the extra focus is on say, a quick and easy way to do realistic water! ...and so on - with a particular quality focus each week. Hope others will add to this comment if they agree.... thanks. TRS

[minutescolorcrafts]

thank you ryan sir for teaching mountain...

[GrammyTapDancing]

Awesome I've learned so much from you videos 👍

[docshi]

Thx for you instructons and ideas. I need for a paiting like this not 15min but 3 hours but thats okay.😎

[pfighterjyt]

I would like to know what you use to draw on the canvas board before you paint it. thank you, also, amazing painting.

[forcryinoutloud]

Love this one!! Can't wait to give it a try.

Quick question about your patreon lessons - if you join your patreon do you get access to previous lessons or only the lessons that are currently available in the month you join?

[lorinacase]

Hey by any chance do you have traceables for people that don't know how to draw that well

[dilipdengle]

Amazing painting Sir! Can you please guide me about the canvas or paper you use for such paintings. What kind of it? Thanks!

[maryjoykenderdine]

HI RYAN, I HAVE NOW DONE 3 OF YOUR FALL PAINTINGS. THEY STILL LOOK LIKE BEGINNER WORK BUT I AM LEARNING ALOT. MY SQUARE HEADED BRUSH DOES NOT DO A STRAIGHT LINE LIKE YOURS DOES. CAN I ASK WHAT KIND OF BRUSH YOU USE? IS IT NYLON, SYNTHETIC OR SOMETHING ELSE. I THINK I WANT TO INVEST IN A BETTER ONE.THANKS AND BLESSINGS!

[carolineattaway]

Can you tell me what size canvas you are using? Thank you. Beautiful job. Caroline

[refhat]

If I close my eyes, you sound like a makeup artist!😂 Great video!

[dilipdengle]

Thank you Sir for prompt & quick reply.