Although most trees we think are straight. The birch tree especially likes to bend a bit. So I get one side straight and one side slightly bent like this curved. The next one comes over a little bit and we're leaving some room at the top. And remember our one two tree. So we've now given a little bend.

If this is your picture, I want you to try to avoid this, which is when you've done your tree stopping the tree because the top of the papers here, see, we don't have to stop the tree because the paper said we can extend past the paper. So I'm going to be showing you that we're not going to be stopping just because the top of the papers there. Okay, here's our next step now. So we have one there, let's add a few of little birch lines. Now the birch lines are very, very interesting because as the tree turns, the birch lines turn and the little lines are slightly curved. And that gives the tree its birch look.

And of course, sometimes there's little spots on the tree and all kinds of things happen on birch trees. Here's our next one is member it's one now we need to get to. So here comes to remember the zigzag one. And then on this side, too. Don't be afraid of the talk. It's we're just pushing through that boundary.

Now you're going to come back. Not too thick. Remember that the size of these two, and the one in the middle are going to be about the same as this. So here comes number two. And this one's Wiggles. Let's make all this right up to right to the top, right off the paper.

So I started with one, and then two, and I tried to make each limb a little different than the other. So that one, two, and 312 tree makes the tree you can continue your little lines. You know, drawing trees like this is great because you learn about trees. Later when you're out looking at trees and go, Oh, I see. I see. So what's next on our agenda?

Well, we have one two tree. We do one two tree again. One, two and birch trees tend to start leaning and pushing over. So we do want to tree here. There's not much room here, but we still do. One, two and a little one in the middle.

And there's none here. So now we have three and three up here. But remember, branches come off. So one. This one over here is always going to be three in the perfect tree. I think what I'll do is I'll put one coming this way.

But this one, somewhere along the line, something broke on it. So it only has to and it didn't grow very much On this side, it tended to go over here. That's why it's curving this way to keep balance. I think I will get one coming on here. You see how I'm building my tree. Let me show you a picture where I used this idea.

Here's a picture of a few birch trees that are dying off, they've got little, the tops are broken. There's the limbs, and you can see the little lines and did these on the side of a road in acrylic. And I'm just adding more colors and brightening the colors but you can see the pattern of growth. You have the one here and then two. And there's another little one here that makes 3123. This one bench started banding.

It started with two but then it broke off eventually. This is a lien And they can sometimes go up to like 10 or 15 feet before they start dividing. And birch trees like to have lots of black branches. And now I'm going to be adding my little twigs. See the twig branches and they go right over to. So I'll move that and adding little twigs on it, I might add some of the little virtual leaves.

Now, the first leaves are like a little bit of a heart shape. So I'm just putting in little star shapes, hard shapes, adding a few branches here and there. A little bit of grass in the bottom. Little shoot up some little tweaks with little fall foilage on and now I've got a nice Little birch tree. I wonder if I have another birch tree somewhere? I think I do.

Just hang on let me go get it. I found it there it is. Look at the scene behind here because these branches are coming out this way. And this might be a popper tree or a different I think this is a white birch. They're a little different. But look at the nice color so I can use this and clouds.

I can use this in my drawing for here for a background. And you can see how I'm using my sketches to bring a studio picture into existence. Okay, so there's the front. I had one more What did it have in it? Ah, here it is. There.

It is. It's a little muddy, but I've kept it because I like the way and I also had to cut these birch down for firewood. So, but I like the rock. You see the rock and it also had a few coming out see, so it's not unusual to have some Renegade limbs on your birch trees. So I'm going to put in the little rock to let me put in a rock right here. Now the trick about rocks is they're in the ground.

So they have a top side and a top and I usually add a little bit of shading to them. There we go. And we add a couple little guys beside There we go. Little Rock time over to this picture. We're going to add a little bit of a just a flick like that. See that flick, and then another flick here.

Sometimes a little moss hanging on them too. Oh See all these little facts start to help you draw. I wasn't too fond of this here. So what I'm going to do is bring it over a little see. Now it looks like they're a little more in perspective, a few black marks on here. Starting to have a good time, put some leaves on the bottom.

And now here we go with that horizon line. I'm going to add a little bit of a zigzag there. Couple more of these. Okay, so that's going to be you can see my mountains, I hop over, I hop over everything. Don't call around the grass. Just topple over, there's another one here.

Now that's right in the middle. I don't want to be exactly in the middle would be off the middle here. So here's my other land. When it comes in here, there's little cloud So by doing little sketches here and there, you can put them all together in the studio and come up with some great little pictures. This could be all beach here. This was down by kootenay Lake.

I mean, I like this, this might make a great watercolor