Finished examples of student work. These show good examples of painted trees.

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Steps for the project:

1. Paint the sky. It's a good idea to paint all of the paper, that way you will avoid awkward white areas on your paper.

2. Paint the background. The image on the left has a mountain. The image in the middle added a body of water. The image on the right added trees (the further away an object is, the more washed out the color and less defined the shapes.)

3. Paint the foreground. The image on the left has a body of water and a green hill. The image in the middle has a tan hill. The image on the right has snowy ground.

4. Paint the trees. Start by painting the tree with no leaves. When done add leaves. To make a tree look realistic it should have at least 3 values of color; dark, medium, and light. It is good to leave patches of sky and/or peekaboo branches amongst the clusters of leaves.