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Are you ever faced with an image that looks like it has a million objects in it and you wonder how do I paint it. This step-by-step will show you how I took a fall scene where there are thousands of leaves and things and simplified the scene to 3 layers or 3 washes. 
 

This painting below is more of a sketch and maybe not as detailed as I normally paint, but it gives you the way to simplify the objects and if you wanted to take this sketch and make it a really detailed painting it would be done in the same procedure but you would take it farther to more details. 

This image has a load of details so you have to simplify the value pattern and then layer those values from light to medium and then dark.

The first layer you start with the lights and establish your colors scheme.

The 2nd wash and layer you start adding your middle tones. In this scene it would be the darker trees and many of the leaves and some reflections in the water.

The final and  dark layer is the finishing touches layer and contains all the darks and the details. How far you take the details is up to how detailed your style usually is. 

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