3 ways to paint a Pine Tree with Watercolor - Beginning to intermediate

These three simple techniques make painting pine in watercolor trees a breeze. This is a great tutorial for beginners and those of you brushing up on your watercolor skills. All you need are basic watercolor supplies. Good luck!

Supplies
Watercolor Paint - basic 8 color set
Watercolor paint brush - round 4,6,or 8
Water in a container
Paper towel
A test paper is optional

To Simplify this
Use one color instead of multiple
Sketch a light triangle in pencil, divide it into 5 with horizontal lines and fill in each layer with watercolor downward strokes

Assignment
After learning this technique paint 5-7 pine trees using one color. Beginning with a few lighter ones (more water), then moving to more saturated brighter ones. It will give the appearance of a forest in the fog, or mist.

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This tutorial was created by McCall for Mr Otter Studio

[valerietodd]

Great. Straight to the point, no pratting around with idle chit chat.

[giuliaspecia]

I love this tutorial, and you speak very clearly ♡

[caratinybebe]

We watched this at School lol. Btw thats a very good explaining thank you!

[jprhea]

I have used all three techniques on one tree, it makes a nice mix with different colors.

[ramchandraumrankar]

I love how you make easy tutorials with minimum supplies. 💙

[SchoolofYule]

Thank you Mr. Otter Art Studio for this fantastic Pine Tree watercolour instructional video. Demonstrating and explaining how to refine paintings through a variety of methods approaching particular challenges is exactly what my students needed. I used this resource today with my students in Year 7 (aged 11-12) in my International School in Dubai; it helped them to produce some fantastic outcomes. I am a big fan!

[SeeTaller]

Ahhh!! We did painting at girls camp this year and I soooo needed this video first ;)

[ScentSational]

This is GREAT! Thank you for demonstrating with several options to create depth as my technique improves!

[Notoldfart]

Just what I was looking for. I have looked at several videos on YouTube and you are the first as I recall to mention using the point of the brush. It makes a difference.

[abigailrose]

I like how you actually talk and not just words on the screen, i find those to get boring <3

[jessicaschmidt]

I don't know what it is about these videos, but I find them so calming

[sheetalmudaliar]

Thankyou so so much for showing such wonderful technique.your pine trees turned out so pretty.
I'm newbie with water colour.

[elenakadyk]

This is wonderful normally I never do landscaping and I'm getting into it now and learning techniques. This is an amazing video now I'm going to watch all your videos lol!

[food]

This is much simpler than the one I keep trying to do with little success in my watercolor book 😂. This is good for beginners, love it.

[kpetro]

Thank you so much! so funny story, I was actually doing the landscape video you made (to anyone reading this its a rly great video and I'm a beginner and mine even turned out decent :) and while one of the layers was drying I got a new sheet of paper to do another video and I clicked on this one and you were like "some of yall needed help with the pinetrees on the easy landscape tutorial" and I started laughing in the middle of my living room and my family looked over at me confused XD maybe its not as funny when reading it, but I thought it was hilarious. anyways, thanks for the video!

[kiranjain]

Hi..Just started to paint and your video is very helpful.. Thank you.. For the tutorial

[bionats]

This is the best pine tree tutorial video on you tube! Thanks for all the tips I finally got the hang of it ! :)

[noelleista]

Thank you so much!! I'm making a Christmas card with a winter landscape and this helped so much 🥰✨

[robincooper]

Great video!  I was looking for one of these about 3 months ago!  Thank you!!

[manfarr]

This was so so helpful!! Thank you so much!! I always love your  videos.