Another technique for painting trees

Everyone has their own method for painting trees,

but getting started for some can be difficult.

Here's one of my techniques,

which in fact is used a great deal by watercolour artists, in the past Wesson and Seago used this style

and current days,  J. Bowden and John Hoar.

The technique is to add JUST SUFFICIENT PAINT to you brush, so as not to swamp it.
If you feel there is TOO MUCH pigment on the brush, then just wipe it
gently over a piece of tissue paper...WITHOUT REMOVING too much.
This all comes down to practise and getting
that 'Feel' for your paint brush.

Then

 paint with the SIDE OF THE BRUSH, not the tip.

You are after a DRY BRUSH EFFECT without it being too dry.

Here's a quick demo showing you,
but in the end it all comes down to

GIVING IT A GO YOURSELVES

AND YOU WILL SEE IT WORKS.

Painting Trees

There are various methods, but for today I thought I would share this version -

Simply by using scrunched up kitchen towel,
so it couldn't be easier.

But first, 

prepare your paint 

and have plenty ready

Then dip the kitchen towel into the paint

and dab onto your paper

In my version I painted the trunk first

then added some lines for branches later

To recap:
Plenty of Paint  >  Dip scrunched up kitchen towel into the paint  >
  Dab onto paper  >  Paint the trunk and branches before or after (it's entirely up to you).