My first attempt at drawing abstract mountains.

One of the problems I run into when I try to draw trees is that I don’t have the right colors in my pencil box. Especially when the leafs are moving in a breeze, they seem to have hundreds of hues of green.
Which is one of the reasons why I’ve never been satisfied with any of trees I tried to draw.

While I was on my holiday I thought I should try to draw an abstract tree. Although I don’t have the right colors, I thought I could try to draw patches of the greens I did have. But in doing so I very quickly realized that I wasn’t drawing trees.
The drawing looked much more like mountains filled with trees.

Concept The green mountains

A mountain range is much nicer if you can draw several mountains. One in front of the other.
You can’t see it but I tried whether it was possible to create the effect of multiple mountains with the colors I was using. Obviously it wasn’t because you can’t see it.

In my next attempt I tried to divide my colors in a few groups. That worked better.
Even so I feel that it should be possible to get a better result.

The green mountains