From Roots to Canopy

Keiko Tanabe, Paul Kratter, and Albert Handell share what they know about trees and give you their best advice for how to paint them in any medium.

KELLY KANE

To paint better trees, you need to understand trees better. That's the surprising verdict of 20th-century landscape painter and author John F. Carlson. In his iconic Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting, he writes, “It is curious how one's feelings about trees change in proportion to one's appreciation of their importance and dignity as live beings. Trees are individual beings: they can be comic, heroic, tragic to the sensitive, practiced eye of the landscape artist.” Here, three top plein air painters tell you not just how to paint trees, but how to know trees — and that can make all the difference in your results. KEIKO TANABE | THE ROLES TREES PLAY I'm a landscape artist, so it's natural for trees to show up frequently in my paintings. As common as…

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