#3 How To Paint Trees In The Distance | Oil Painting Tutorial

In this oil painting tutorial I'll show you how to paint trees in the distance. You'll learn what brush techniques and oil colours I use to paint photorealistic trees in the distant background.

I'm a professional landscape artist with over 20 years of experience in oil painting. My YouTube Channel is dedicated to helping people learn how to paint in oils. I really believe that everyone can learn how to paint!

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[florarhea]

The more I watch you work. The more I'm learning. Thank you so much.😊😊

[bassfiddle]

You're in a whole different category as all the other well-known greats...your detail brings pictures to life and it makes all the difference in the world. I could watch you paint all day, but I wouldn't get anything else done.

[medinalba]

great painting lessons, THANK YOU. you are the first explainging or shwing the colours you are using when mixing them, so we learn how to mix certain colors and tones.

[bustamanalamsyah]

Yes beautiful drawing by Michael James. You are the best.

[homeshineartcreation]

i m from India, and watching your every video of painting sir ! you are my inspiration of painting. thanks sir .

[shiellouisstark]

Thanks for sharing your style of painting trees i really like your tutorial very realistic.

[darshana]

I learned so many things from your video, thank you

[padmavatikorgaonkar]

Michael James Smith, you are great..thanks for sharing your knowledge !

[NickPenlee]

Hi Michael
Have just come across your site and very much enjoy your narrative on the techniques that you employ; interesting to observe your choice of flat brush to create the distant tree-line canopy with their triangular shape. Many artists tend to use a small filbert instead which lead to cauliflower/mushroom forms; I think I prefer your method, actually.
It's made my day viewing all your other videos as I find them really informative.
Thank you.

[ariyaziauddin]

Mashallah
most amazing techniques ever see in my life. Michael u r the

[CharlesHancockCreations]

I've now watched this 4x. I'm working on a picture and this was extremely helpful! Thanks.

[PanzerMecha]

Really helpful to see this technique demonstrated. Thank you!

[artsalivestudio]

Michael, I was putting the oil on and not getting enough coverage. Took me a while but I finally figured it out.

[OurFrenchHouseRenovation]

Thanks Michael for sharing, great to watch how you build up the layers..

[nefferospina]

Genial, entre los mejores tutoriales, no me canso de verlo . 👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[geraldtriola]

Michael your detail in landscape is the best I've seen on yet. Do you offer full length tutorial paintings?

[bluesky]

So life like, if I didn't see these videos, I would have thought it's a photograph. So talented! Thanks for the lesson :)

[carlosarturomoralesmoreno]

felicitaciones, una técnica increíble, gracias por los videos

[jfm]

I love the levels of details of your paintings. Do you think the technic you use would work with acrylic paint with retarder medium?

[artsalivestudio]

Michael. Great art as usual. I have a question: I seem to remember hearing that you do your underpainting in acrylic? If so do you thin the acrylic to help the oil stick to it? I have tried using acrylic as a undercoat but I think I put it on too thick because the oils didn't adhere as well as I had hoped.