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How to Draw an Olive Branch
Draw an olive branch in 11 easy steps, about 8 minutes. Free, with a printable worksheet.
Each picture adds one red line. Draw that line, then scroll to the next picture. Rub out any dashed helper lines at the end. First up: the branch.
Step 1: The branch
Start low on the left. Draw a long bowed branch up to the top right, getting thinner toward the tip.
Step 2: First leaves
Near the bottom of the branch draw a long slim pointed leaf sticking out on each side.
Tip Olive leaves are long, narrow and pointed, and grow in pairs.
Step 3: More pairs
A little further up draw another pair of slim leaves the same way, and another pair above that.
Step 4: Pairs to the top
Keep going up the branch with 2 more pairs of slim leaves, each pair a little shorter.
Step 5: Tip leaves
Near the tip draw 2 last small pairs of leaves.
Step 6: Olive stalks
Under the branch, draw 4 tiny stalks hanging down in the gaps, each close to the leaf pair above it.
Step 7: The olives
On the end of each stalk draw a fat little egg olive hanging in the gap, not touching the leaves.
Step 8: Green leaves
Go over your lines, then colour the leaves on the upper side of the branch green.
Step 9: More green leaves
Colour the leaves on the lower side green too.
Step 10: Brown branch
Colour the branch brown.
Step 11: Purple olives
Colour the 4 olives purple, and your olive branch is done!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: an olive branch, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
