Painting A Japanese Maple In Watercolor
A practical guide to painting a tree with beautiful red foliage
4 min readOct 9, 2019
Painting a Japanese maple in its full splendor is a pleasurable challenge. The plethora of red foliage appears to make it a simple subject; the test for the painter is to attempt to incorporate other color variations into the work. In this painting, to give variety to the red paint, I’ve…