Painting Tutorial: How to Paint a Realistic Distant Tree Line

[@cherylboocher8943]

Nice detail and fascinating to follow step by step.

[@taiadi]

How does the wooden hand rest you're using not track paint as you move it along different parts of the painting? I always struggle with accidentally setting my pinky or side of my hand down and thereby tracking color with it to another part of the painting where i don't want it

[@johnboocherart]

Great question! And one that I wish I could answer with a photo to show you my setup :) I taped a block of wood to the top of my easel. The top of the wooden hand rest rests on that block of wood, leaving just enough of a gap between the rest and the painting to prevent the wood from touching the painting, but not enough to prevent me from getting as close as I need to in order to paint those fine details!