Tree Painting with Free PDF Template using a dish brush

​This artwork looks so complicated and detailed, but it’s not. It’s so easy to create the detailed leaves with a simple plastic dish brush, and to help with the tree, we have a free Tree Outline Template with our printable PDF of this lesson plan.

You Will Need:

• ​Use an old dish brush for painting leaves
• Print the Free Tree Template
• Paint: Thick quality paint.  SuperTempera or Student Acrylic are both ideal for this.
• Old Plastic Dish Brush
• Spare sheets of paper for testing.
• Shallow paint trays or old plastic container lids.
• Paintbrushes
• Black marker for details, if required.

​Let’s Get Started:

Print off the Free Template of the tree trunk.

Pour a little paint onto your paint tray or plastic container lids.  You will only need a small amount.  If you are painting autumn colours, use yellow, orange and deep yellow.  Otherwise, use green and leaf green for the tree leaves.

Use a pressing stamping action with the brush to get the leaves effect on the branches of the tree.  Try testing on a spare sheet of paper until you are happy 
with the consistency of the paint.

When you have finished the leaves, paint the trunk and showing branches with a paintbrush.
Once dried, you can use a black marker for highlights.   

Free PDF Template:
The template is on page 2.