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Hello, glad to see you again.

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This being the last
show of the series, we've

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decided to devote it to a
question and answer period.

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We've had so many cards and letters
from everyone who's watching us, and

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today we're going to try to answer
some of those questions right here on TV.

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Also today, it's a great

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great privilege to me to be able to
introduce the pride and joy in my life.

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This is my son Steve, and
I've asked Steve to come

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give me a hand today, and
he'll read questions for us.

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Steve, glad to have you with us.

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Good to see you today.

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Okay, I think everybody has probably asked
just about the same basic questions, and

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we've picked a few letters here today that
will answer most of the basic questions.

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If we don't answer your specific
question, we will be dropping you

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a line personally if it's something
that only a few people ask.

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So Steve, why don't you
give us the first question?

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Okay, the first question
is, what is Magic White?

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What is Magic White?

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Magic White is a very
thin, white, oil-based paint.

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And it's very important to
know that it's an oil-based paint.

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Please do not get it
confused with gesso.

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Gesso is a water-based paint.

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It will not work.

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Magic White is designed to stay wet on
the canvas for extended periods of time.

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And maybe we'll just demonstrate
here a little bit how thin it really is.

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And let's see, if I can
take just a little bit here

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and we'll just put it right
up here on the canvas.

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And it's very, very thin.

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It's almost like water.

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Like so.

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And I hope that does give you
an idea of what magic white is.

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The big thing is, do not
confuse it with gesso.

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There is a terrific
difference between the two.

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What's our next one, Steve?

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How do I tell if I have too much
magic white on my canvas?

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It's a common mistake, mate.

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It's very, very easy to
put too much magic white.

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And probably,
well, let's just do it.

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Let me get an
almighty brush here.

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And let's put some magic white on the
canvas and we'll just sort of demonstrate.

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And you'll put the magic white
on and really work it back and forth.

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It takes a very thin
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Just enough to
get the canvas wet.

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Okay.

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Just like so.

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If there's any doubt in your mind and you think you
may have too much magic white, I suggest you clean your

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brush, dry it very well, go back over the canvas and
remove any excess magic white that's on your canvas.

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Okay, so you just rub
this in very, very good here.

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And work it back and forth.

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There we go.

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Nice even distribution of paint.

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Once again, if there's any doubt in your
mind, clean your brush and go back over it.

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It will pick up the excess.

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Okay, what do we have next?

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Can I use any kind of
oil paint for this method?

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The biggest thing that we're looking
for is a paint that is very, very firm.

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It has to be as thick as
you can possibly get it.

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What we suggest is you go down,
open the tube of paint, squeeze it.

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It should stand
approximately three quarters

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of an inch above
the tube by itself.

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When you open it and
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of oily, if it runs out the
sides, it will not work.

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We suggest that
you really try this.

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It has to be firm.

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Okay?

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What's the next one?

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The brushes I purchased
not seem to work.

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What do you suggest?

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We run into this
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People will watch what we're doing
here on TV and they go down to the

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local hardware store and they
purchase the cheapest brush they can find.

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Most of the time you'll
end up with a nylon brush.

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The brushes that we use,
let me just pick one up here.

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The brushes that we
use are natural bristle.

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These are split
bore bristle brushes.

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So when you purchase a brush,

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Get one that is natural bristle.

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Do not let them sell
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It will not work.

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It cuts paint.

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Okay, what's our next question?

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Can I clean my
brushes in turpentine?

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Turpentine.

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Several things are wrong.

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Number one, it has a terrible odor
that will drive you out of the house.

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You'll be painting all
by yourself very soon.

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Probably the biggest
thing that happens with

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turpentine, it leaves a
residue in your brushes.

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That can only be cleaned
out with soap and water.

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And if you use soap and water
on natural bristle brushes, you're

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gonna find they get very fuzzy
and begin to lose their shape.

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We suggest that you clean
only with odorless paint thinner.

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And do not use turpentine.

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Okay, what do we have next?

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Is it alright to use canvas
boards to paint on?

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This is a question that's asked
over and over because canvas

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boards are much more reasonably
priced than stretch canvas.

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The big problem with
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inside the canvas board
is a thin layer of cardboard.

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The cardboard has a tendency
to absorb your magic white and

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your canvas will become dry
before the picture is finished.

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We really recommend that
you use a canvas that's covered

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with an acrylic
primer, double-primed.

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Two coats of acrylic.

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And we find that the stretch canvas is
much, much better than the canvas board.

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Also, the knife has a slight
curve in the long edge.

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It is not straight.

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The curve is designed in there so when
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So we really recommend
that you use stretch canvas.

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What do we have next?

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The snow on the
mountains is so beautiful, but

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I'm having a hard time
making the paint break.

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Can you tell me
what I'm doing wrong?

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Well, maybe we'll
just demonstrate.

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And I think I can
probably answer most of

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the problems you're
having just by doing it.

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So let's just mix up a little blue-brown
and a little touch of alizarin and white.

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And let's just build
an almighty mountain.

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I think first of all, so
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ground here to play
with, let's just put in

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a very quick little simple
sky and some blue.

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Just so we have something
for the mountain to set

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here against, rather
than just a white canvas.

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We'll just throw in
a little blue paint.

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Okay.

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Just enough to give
us a nice little sky here.

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Several things are
probably happening.

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And we'll try to cover
each one individually here.

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So let's make a
basic mountain shape.

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And let's just say this
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Probably the first
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that you're leaving too
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We want to remove all the
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And we're pushing
very, very hard.

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It's a matter of pushing
the paint right into the fabric.

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So when you're doing this,
get tough with it, get strong.

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This is the time to take
out all your frustrations.

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It's much better than
kicking the dog around

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the house or taking
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This is the way you
take out your frustrations.

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Now I've scraped all the
paint off here that I can get.

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Now I'm gonna take the
big brush and pull this down.

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This will take even more
paint off and thin what's here.

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So there's virtually nothing
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just the color that's
pushed into the material.

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So here we have a
basic mountain shape.

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If you're having problems
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most common problem is
that you're pushing too hard.

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This is absolutely the most
delicate touch imaginable.

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I remember when I was teaching
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him to pretend he was a
whisper floating across a mountain.

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It's that light of a touch.

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So, you touch it, just let it grab,
and just the weight of the knife.

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And you can make this snow just
break and flow right down the mountain.

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But you need to do this
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if you're not careful, is
gonna float right away.

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It's that light of a touch.

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And then you can add oil,
the snow that you want on here.

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And think about where
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This is another
problem that we run into.

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Think about your light, if it's
coming from here, where it's gonna

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strike all the little protrusions
that come up from the mountain.

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Just like so.

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The shadows are just like the highlights,
only we're going in the opposite direction.

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And I think you've heard
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show, each highlight must
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Each one.

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So if you wanna make a
peak stand out, give him his

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own private little highlight,
or a shadow, I'm sorry.

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Okay, there we go.

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But probably the biggest problem,
once again, is too much pressure.

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Use a very, very delicate touch.

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And the diffusing is another
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And here, it's a light touch,
a very, very light touch.

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It's so easy to destroy this, and
especially if you're using a paint

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that's not super, super strong, firm,
you're gonna destroy all your work.

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So use a firm paint,
barely touch the canvas.

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Just enough to diffuse this.

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And then we lift in the direction and
the angle that the mountain is flowing.

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We lift it upward just to
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And just let it blend
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And you can just make that big old mountain
lay right around there in the mist.

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Okay, Steve, what's
our next question?

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Would you show us up close
how to make the trees and bushes?

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I'm also having trouble making
the highlights stick to the canvas.

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Another very common problem.

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Okay, let's make some,
I'll show you several

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different ways here
to make some trees.

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And maybe we can get the
camera to come in real close.

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When we start this and you can
actually see how the brush is bending.

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I'm gonna take a little
blue and brown, little

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touch of alizarin
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We'll just mix all
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Now, if we can bring
the camera in very close,

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you can see how full of
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Has a lot of paint in there.

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Okay, let's make a
nice big leafy tree.

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We go into the canvas
and we just bend the bristles.

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And you see what's happening.

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Thousands and thousands
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And we can make this
tree any size we want it.

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We just keep working and playing on it here
and it just grows right off your brush.

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Okay, we'll put another little one right
here while we got paint on the brush.

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Now, this is the way
we make a leafy tree.

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And one of the ways to make
bushes, for example, is to use

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a big brush, go straight into
the canvas, and bend upward.

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Just push upward.

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That's all there is to it.

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All we're doing is just
bending the bristles.

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Make the bristles work for you.

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You're the master.

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Okay, let's look at there.

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Already we have a tree,
mountains, nice little bushes.

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Son of a gun.

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Okay, how to make

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an evergreen tree.

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We'll mix up some dark paint
here, and we'll just use the

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same colors, blue-brown, a
little touch of alizarin sap green.

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Very, very dark.

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And we'll take and
fill a brush full of paint.

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Probably the biggest single problem we have
is not putting enough paint into the brush.

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It takes a lot of paint to
stick these bristles together.

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Okay, let's just go right up here on the
canvas and let's make an evergreen tree.

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Let's just touch.

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All we're doing at
first is just touching the

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canvas just to sort
of give us a guideline.

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Then we take the corner of the brush
and we start working from the center out.

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The center of the tree is
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because you have limbs
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You have the trunk in the center
and the limbs on the front, all of

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which stop light and make the
center of the tree look very, very thick.

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Okay, let me just finish
this little tree up here.

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Another thing we work very
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as tree limbs get older, they
have a tendency to hang more.

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And underneath, the little needles
and stuff begin, oh, they get tired.

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Some of them begin dying.

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And you always have
these little things underneath.

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For lack of a better word,
I call them hangy-downs.

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There may be a proper name for
them, but we just call them hangy-downs.

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Okay, let's do that, let's do that again,
just so you can see one more time.

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And if we can get the camera in here
real close, let's do one right about here.

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We touch, get us a little guideline,
then we start right with the corner.

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So the first time
it's just a little touch.

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Next time, a little bigger.

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And we're just working outward.

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Always from the center out.

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And nothing wrong with reloading
your brush several times through there.

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So you have a lot of paint.

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And we're not drawing with a brush, we're
just touching it and letting it come off.

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Okay, so that's, I'll put some
more little bushes right here.

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We also can use this one inch
brush to make all mighty trees.

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And all you're doing is the same thing
we did with the big one, we just push.

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Push, push, push.

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And you can use them sideways
just like you did the big brush to

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make all these nice little grassy
areas come down through here.

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There we go.

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And let's go back to the
big brush and just fill this up.

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Give you an idea here.

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Okay.

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The big brush covers a lot
of space in a very short time.

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Use it to your advantage.

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Okay, I think the other
part of the question was

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They were having trouble making
their highlights stick on the trees.

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So, let's put some
highlights on these trees.

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First of all, I'm gonna take a little brown
and white here and make some trunks.

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Might as well
show the trunks too.

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All we're doing here is touching
and pulling sort of to the left.

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And you can put as many of
these little trunks in as you want.

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Over here, just like so,
and then just ever so often.

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And we can put little
trunks growing everywhere.

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There they go.

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And over here we'll
do the same thing.

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Just touch, indications, you
don't see the whole trunk.

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Because we're gonna
have leaves in the front.

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Okay.

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Now, to put these highlights
on, we're gonna take and dip the

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brush into some magic white,
and then pull it through color.

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And maybe we'll make
some nice green highlights.

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I'll put a little touch of
phthalo green in here.

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And all you do is just push,
just enough to bend the bristles.

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And just lay all those
beautiful little leaves on there.

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Thousands and thousands of them.

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I used to spend weeks with my
one-haired brush trying to do this.

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It almost made me angry the
first time I saw Alexander on TV,

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that he could do in a matter of
minutes what took me days to do.

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Okay.

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Now, there's nothing
wrong with going back

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into your Magic White
and adding a little more.

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So maybe we'll just put
some highlights on here

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and let you really see how
the highlights are made.

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And if you want to put some
little smaller bushes down here,

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you're still using the same
technique, pushing with a brush.

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Just wherever you want them.

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You can also use this brush

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sideways and make
beautiful little highlights.

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Just let them sort of wander
around wherever they want to go.

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You can spend a tremendous amount of
time worrying about where things should be.

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In the period of time that
you spend worrying about

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it, you could have completed
an almighty painting.

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For the evergreen trees,
I bring the brush back to a

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nice sharp point, just
like I did to make the trees.

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And I start right
up here at the top,

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and just begin touching.

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Evergreen trees are normally
darker than other trees anyway, so you

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don't want to kill all this beautiful
dark color that you've got in here.

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You start at the top on any
kind of tree and work down.

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By working down, your
brush is automatically

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picking up the color
that's underneath.

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Automatically gets
darker as it goes down.

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Because in nature, the light
would come through here,

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it would strike the top
of the tree normally first.

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That would be
the brightest area.

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Also, as limbs get older, they
lose a lot of their chlorophyll.

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They begin losing a lot of
their beautiful green color.

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So automatically this happens,
you don't have to work at it.

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Let the brush work,
let the paint work.

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We'll highlight this other
little evergreen over here.

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Right here, okay, we
just take and just touch.

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And according to which side your
light's coming from, you want that

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side of the tree to be just a little
bit brighter than the other one.

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Okay, while I'm over here, I
think I'll put some highlights

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on this other tree, give
you one more to look at.

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Okay, but back to
the basic problem.

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If it doesn't stick,

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Majority of times, your
problem is your paint is too thick.

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So add a little more
Magic White with it.

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And we'll throw some
little highlights on this one.

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Okay, let me wash out the brush.

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And we'll put just a couple
more little highlights in here.

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We'll see what our
next question is.

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There we go.

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Just let them fall in here.

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Wherever you want them.

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And another thing we do is
mix the color on the brush.

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You've probably heard me say that throughout
this series several times, but it's

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very important because that way you get
a variety of color all on the same brush.

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Okay, I think that's
enough playin'.

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Steve, what's our next question?

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I love the reflections you do.

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Would you go over the
process you use to make them?

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Hmm, that's one I
shoulda had to ask a little

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earlier, but I don't
think that's any problem.

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Let me clean out
my big brush here.

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And we'll just see
what we can do.

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This is also a good example
of how you can change

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a picture right in the
middle of the picture.

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So, Steve wants some reflections,
so let's give him reflections.

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We'll just start right along in here
and start pulling this downward.

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Just maybe like so.

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All we're doing is
pulling the paint down.

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Okay, now, gently go across it, just enough
to give it a watery effect, don't destroy.

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Now maybe you wanna make
a little more distinct reflection.

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So, let's put a nice little
bright yellow bush right here.

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And let's reflect that
bush right into the water.

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And we can just
reflect a lot of things.

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Well, we got it
on the brush here.

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Okay.

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Maybe we'll put a nice little
bush out here that we can reflect.

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All I've done is turn
the brush over, and

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I'm putting the bushes
right into the water.

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Okay, now maybe we
can get a close-up shot

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right in here, and let's
see what we can do.

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We have the paint laid on the canvas, so
now we're gonna take and very lightly, you

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almost let a hair touch, it's that light
of a touch, gonna gently pull that down.

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You don't wanna destroy,
you just wanna diffuse it.

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Now we're gonna slight,
with a light, light touch,

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just come across it to
give it a watery effect.

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Okay, now we can do
the same thing over here.

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Just like so.

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And you see what it
looks like at this point.

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Don't worry about making it
perfect with the first stroke.

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You have to pull down,
and then very gently,

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come across, and it's
very easy to destroy this.

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So all you wanna do is
just barely touch the canvas.

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Let a hair almost
touch the canvas.

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Another thing that we
get a lot of questions

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about is putting
the water lines in.

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So we might as well put some in.

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Here I'm gonna use
just straight Magic White.

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Put a little bit on the knife.

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And the one thing to
remember here, if you're

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making still water, it's
always flat, always level.

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So every little line that you
put in it must be basically flat.

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You can go anywhere you wanna go with it,
but you have to keep them straight, okay?

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Good example here.

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Looks like this is
traveling right on back.

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Okay, we'll put a little
more magic white on our

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knife, and we're just
cutting into the canvas.

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Look there.

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And just let it go
wherever you want it to go.

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Okay, now maybe over here on this side,
we'll take a little bit of Van Dyke brown,

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and we'll just show how you can make
it look like soil, dirt, rocks, whatever.

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And we're just laying
a little color on here.

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Straight Van Dyke brown.

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Okay, then we'll take a
little blue, white, and brown,

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And just like we were making
mountains again, let it break.

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Let it break, leave
these open spots.

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So it gives the
appearance of dirt or stones.

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Okay, now we can put a little water
line underneath here with the magic wipe.

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You're still keeping these
lines basically straight.

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Okay.

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And we'll just add a few
little sticks here and there.

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Maybe you want to show a
little something happening here.

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You can just pull that down a little so
it's not just a straight line going across.

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Okay.

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Just to break
it up a little bit.

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And we'll put some little
sticks here and there.

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And maybe we'll take just a
touch more color and let it run

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down this dirt area here so it
looks like it all comes together.

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You don't wanna have a
straight line right across there.

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So we'll just break it up
here and there with some

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little grass that's growing
down on the bank right here.

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Okay.

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We could throw a few more
little sticks here and there.

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Sometimes you can
scratch through the paint, let

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the white show through
and give yourself a very nice

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effect of little sticks, little trunks
happening here in the bushes.

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Or sometimes you might want to take
a little bit of paint and lay in there.

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Just like so.

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There we go.

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And let some of these sticks run
down on the bank too, on the soil area.

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It's not unusual, very
common in fact, to have a lot

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of little twigs and sticks
growing around the water.

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And just let these
little things happen.

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It really produces a tremendous
feeling of depth in a picture.

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Well, you know, we've sat
here and answered questions,

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and son of a gun if we
hadn't finished a picture.

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And I think with that I'm gonna
sort of bring this to a close.

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I hope we've answered the majority
of your questions that really bother you.

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If you still have problems,

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or if there's anything
you'd like to know about this

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method of painting,
feel free to drop us a line.

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We'll be glad to answer any question that
you have, as long as it's not too personal.

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We'll just about
answer anything.

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And on behalf of my son, Steve, the entire crew
here, I would like to thank you very, very much for

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being with us through this 13-part series, and
hopefully we'll see you again in the near future.

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And with that, I'm
gonna sign this picture

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And tell each and every one of you,
thank you from the bottom of my heart.

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We've enjoyed being with you.

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Happy painting.

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