Good Tips from everyone Actually the colors are brighter in person than the photo shows
Which all depends on lighting, Camera< mine's not great and your monitor.
That said i do want to add a lighter shade of green about the color of the clump folage in the
foreground
Thanks for the help
TerryinTexas
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The trick in painting background trees is to use at least two distinctly different hues of green. Three is better.
The base, or first, application should be a fairly deep green and fairly heavily applied but I'd say Brunswick (which borders on black) is really too dark a shade to represent tree leaves in any form. When this is dry, one applies a not so heavily stippled application of lighter green over the first one, allowing a fair amount of the darker color to show through. Once the second application is dry, to represent the effects of sunlight you can lightly stipple on an additional application of somewhat yellowish-green to the top and one side of each tree. In doing so, you want around 70% of the first two green applications to remain visible.
The overall procedure is the same for producing autumn colors on background trees, starting with the darkest greens and reds and moving toward lighter oranges and yellows. I've used this technique for years on my layout and module backgrounds but can't find a nice representative image at the moment to include here (i.e. none are included on either my Photobucket or Railimages albums).
CNJ831
Joe Fugate Modeling the 1980s SP Siskiyou Line in southern Oregon
I agree with Art. The trees in your photos appear to be too gray in color, at least for a summer scene. I think you need more greens in the background trees so they are closer to the greens in the foreground vegetation. You might want to add some larger bushes or trees behind the bushes you now have in the foreground to create a more gradual transition into the painted portion of the background and add more depth to the scene. Since what you've painted seems to be in the near background, you shouldn't have to add a bluish cast to create the illusion of the trees being in the distance. I think your painting technique looks good, i.e., dabbing with the brush. Remember you're trying to create the illusion of trees and vegetation, not detailed trees.
Bob
Good start. I have not yet decided to try a start.
My reaction, if the scene is winter, it looks pretty good. May be a little dense for my part of the country. If it is a summer scene, there are not enough greens and yellows for my area. I will follow this post because I do need to start pretty soon. so I can finish my canyon.
I picked an area that i knew i could hide I used 2 shades of green Brunswick and Pullman
and just dabbed the brush to the skyboard then used a very small brush and made upward swiping
motions with mud brown
Maybe from far away in a fog these would look like trees.
I think i need to Practice more