How to paint leaves with Winton Oil

Add a pea sized amount of Liquin to lemon yellow and create a ground on your oil paper.

Add some Liquin to your sap green and draw leaf shapes. You can do this from observation or draw round some actual leaves

Add a little burnt umber to the sap green and more liquin and paint the negative space around the leaves. Make this application uneven to get different opacities and tones and create different depths of space.

Mix a little cobalt blue into the lemon yellow to paint the leaves with pale greenish yellow. Add more cobalt blue and apply this darker green to the other half of the leaf shapes. Add some cobalt blue in wet to define the edges of the leaves, leaving a little edge of light against the darkest areas.

While the leaf shapes are still wet, add further definition to the leaves blending in some sap green paint for darker tonal areas. For the veins in the leaves, do marks using tip of your brush. Mix cobalt blue with geranium lake and add dashes into the negative space to increase the depths and tone.

Add a little umber to your cobalt blue to make a cooler darker tone, cooler tones move backwards. Add a little burnt umber to the geranium lake to create warm darker tones, warm tones move the space forwards. Add patches to warmer and darker tones to complete the negative space.