Christie Renee Hawkins shows how to use an angled brush to paint small, non-blended strokes that look like leaves. The brush's shape does the work for you. She says practicing this technique teaches patience.
I'm just going to grab some of my different colors here and just start laying some little brushstrokes down. So the reason I use an angled brush is because it kind of just does the work for me. When you lay down an angled brush, that's the brushstroke that you get. They're beautiful little brushstrokes, and I thought they looked pretty as a representation of the leaves. So I'm just going to put some kind of all over. And you may have painted this style with me before. I use this technique in several of my paintings because it's just kind of a style that I like working with, and it teaches you to just have patience.
