"The Joy of Painting" Winter Moon

1 00:00:01,668 --> 00:00:02,603 Welcome back. 2 00:00:02,703 --> 00:00:05,706 Today, I thought we'd do a painting that's right out of the heart of Alaska. 3 00:00:05,806 --> 00:00:08,775 We're gonna start with a black canvas, which I've already 4 00:00:08,876 --> 00:00:11,845 covered with a coat of Van Dyke brown and Prussian blue. 5 00:00:11,945 --> 00:00:15,315 And these colors are transparent, so it'll still look black. 6 00:00:15,415 --> 00:00:17,784 In this painting, we wanna show the moon in the 7 00:00:17,885 --> 00:00:20,487 sky with some happy little clouds floating around. 8 00:00:20,587 --> 00:00:23,257 We'll put some almighty mountains, some beautiful 9 00:00:23,357 --> 00:00:26,593 frost-colored bushes, and we'll see what happens in there. 10 00:00:26,693 --> 00:00:30,197 I'm gonna start with a little titanium white. 11 00:00:30,297 --> 00:00:33,233 And we'll start right up here where we want the moon to be. 12 00:00:33,333 --> 00:00:36,370 And just make little X's. 13 00:00:36,470 --> 00:00:38,906 And just start working them around. 14 00:00:39,006 --> 00:00:42,809 You want to start in the center and work outward so that the 15 00:00:42,910 --> 00:00:47,614 light gets progressively darker as it moves away from the moon. 16 00:00:47,714 --> 00:00:50,517 And we'll go out in this direction so that it hits 17 00:00:50,617 --> 00:00:53,287 the curvature of the earth and bounces back up. 18 00:00:53,387 --> 00:00:54,988 Okay, there we go. 19 00:00:55,088 --> 00:00:57,357 Already you should be able to see how the white 20 00:00:57,457 --> 00:00:59,993 paint is beginning to pick up the color underneath. 21 00:01:00,093 --> 00:01:01,828 And we'll just blend this together. 22 00:01:01,929 --> 00:01:05,232 There we go. 23 00:01:05,332 --> 00:01:06,500 Okay. 24 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:08,068 Now we don't want to let this get too bright. 25 00:01:08,168 --> 00:01:12,005 We still want it to look like night when we're finished. 26 00:01:12,105 --> 00:01:17,377 So just work it around and around and all the way out to the edges. 27 00:01:17,477 --> 00:01:21,148 And we'll do a little over in here. 28 00:01:21,248 --> 00:01:25,319 Now then, we'll take the large brush and very gently we'll 29 00:01:25,419 --> 00:01:29,256 bring this together just by making little X patterns. 30 00:01:31,725 --> 00:01:39,399 There we go. 31 00:01:39,499 --> 00:01:44,071 Makes all the little actions in the sky. 32 00:01:45,739 --> 00:01:47,107 Come across. 33 00:01:47,207 --> 00:01:49,343 Now let's put the moon in. 34 00:01:49,443 --> 00:01:53,246 And we'll do that by taking a clean brush, and we'll load it full of white 35 00:01:53,347 --> 00:01:57,451 paint, and we go right straight into the canvas where we want the moon to be. 36 00:01:59,820 --> 00:02:02,022 We push quite hard. 37 00:02:02,122 --> 00:02:06,560 Push the paint right into the canvas, just turn it. 38 00:02:06,660 --> 00:02:08,528 There. 39 00:02:08,629 --> 00:02:14,901 Okay, then with a knife, very carefully, we'll take off just the excess paint. 40 00:02:15,002 --> 00:02:16,536 Let me clean this old big brush out here. 41 00:02:16,637 --> 00:02:25,078 There we go. 42 00:02:25,178 --> 00:02:27,447 Now, very gently, we'll bring this together. 43 00:02:27,547 --> 00:02:30,851 Just work it back and forth. 44 00:02:30,951 --> 00:02:38,125 And create the illusion of a moon setting up here in the sky. 45 00:02:38,225 --> 00:02:39,860 Okay. 46 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:43,196 Now then, let's put some happy little clouds in here. 47 00:02:43,296 --> 00:02:49,369 And we'll use the almighty fan brush, and we'll just use this blue and brown color. 48 00:02:49,469 --> 00:02:52,906 And, load it full of paint, and we'll take, just using 49 00:02:53,006 --> 00:02:56,510 the corner, and we'll put in some happy little clouds. 50 00:02:56,610 --> 00:02:59,846 Just let one float right across the moon here. 51 00:02:59,946 --> 00:03:03,950 A lot of paint on the brush. 52 00:03:04,051 --> 00:03:05,052 Okay. 53 00:03:07,554 --> 00:03:08,922 There we go. 54 00:03:10,190 --> 00:03:14,027 Maybe, maybe, maybe you can, let's say right 55 00:03:14,127 --> 00:03:18,498 up here, we'll put another happy little cloud. 56 00:03:18,598 --> 00:03:23,503 A little sneaky cloud running around here at night. 57 00:03:23,603 --> 00:03:25,205 There we go. 58 00:03:25,305 --> 00:03:27,107 And you're pushing this paint into the canvas. 59 00:03:27,207 --> 00:03:31,645 Really, really work it into the canvas. 60 00:03:31,745 --> 00:03:35,682 And maybe down here we've got some little delicate clouds 61 00:03:35,782 --> 00:03:39,853 that are just floating around, very small little clouds. 62 00:03:39,953 --> 00:03:40,220 There we go. 63 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:46,526 Just lay them in. 64 00:03:46,626 --> 00:03:47,627 Okay. 65 00:03:49,196 --> 00:03:52,733 Now, let's clean the fan brush. 66 00:03:56,636 --> 00:03:57,504 And wipe him dry. 67 00:03:57,604 --> 00:04:00,741 And we'll take a little bit of titanium white 68 00:04:00,841 --> 00:04:06,613 Mixed with just a little bit of the same color. 69 00:04:06,713 --> 00:04:08,215 And we'll push some highlights in here. 70 00:04:08,315 --> 00:04:12,185 Just take the fan brush and just work the corners. 71 00:04:12,285 --> 00:04:14,855 Just the corner of the brush. 72 00:04:14,955 --> 00:04:20,527 And just push some paint right in here. 73 00:04:20,627 --> 00:04:20,794 There. 74 00:04:20,894 --> 00:04:25,832 A little light playing across the top of this cloud. 75 00:04:25,932 --> 00:04:28,101 Maybe right along here. 76 00:04:28,201 --> 00:04:34,775 This is your world, so wherever you want light to strike this cloud, let it happen. 77 00:04:34,875 --> 00:04:42,215 Okay, let's put some highlights right along these little things right here. 78 00:04:42,315 --> 00:04:43,583 And we're pushing quite hard with this. 79 00:04:43,683 --> 00:04:52,325 We wanna, once again, we wanna push the color right into the material if possible. 80 00:04:52,425 --> 00:04:54,060 There we go. 81 00:04:54,161 --> 00:04:56,329 Now, in this cloud up here, 82 00:04:56,429 --> 00:05:00,300 Since it's above the moon, the light's gonna strike the bottom of it. 83 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:07,340 So we'll put the highlights on the bottom rather than on the top. 84 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:09,810 There. 85 00:05:09,910 --> 00:05:16,883 Maybe a nice little thing right out through here like that. 86 00:05:16,983 --> 00:05:19,219 Maybe a little light striking around up in here. 87 00:05:19,319 --> 00:05:22,522 Just a little something playing there. 88 00:05:22,622 --> 00:05:26,560 Okay, now we'll take the big brush, be sure it's dry and clean, and 89 00:05:26,660 --> 00:05:30,597 we're just gonna gently hypnotize this, just to bring it together. 90 00:05:31,731 --> 00:05:33,433 Isn't that fantastic? 91 00:05:33,533 --> 00:05:34,701 Look at that. 92 00:05:34,801 --> 00:05:37,470 Look at all the little things that happen in this cloud. 93 00:05:37,571 --> 00:05:40,106 This is unplanned, it really just happens. 94 00:05:40,207 --> 00:05:43,243 You really can't control what's gonna happen here. 95 00:05:43,343 --> 00:05:46,646 Don't try to, don't fight it, use what happens. 96 00:05:46,746 --> 00:05:50,016 Okay, let's make a happy little mountain now. 97 00:05:50,116 --> 00:05:54,921 We'll take some blue and some brown, still using the same color. 98 00:05:55,021 --> 00:05:57,591 And we'll draw in our basic mountain shape here. 99 00:05:57,691 --> 00:05:58,959 Here we go. 100 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:08,568 Really push, really forcing that paint into the material. 101 00:06:13,874 --> 00:06:21,882 Maybe we'll make this one come up a little higher so we can see clouds behind it. 102 00:06:24,517 --> 00:06:26,820 Okay, we use a large brush and pull that paint down. 103 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:30,557 This removes any excess that we have left on the canvas. 104 00:06:30,657 --> 00:06:38,932 We're trying to get all the paint off the canvas that we possibly can. 105 00:06:39,032 --> 00:06:45,438 Okay. 106 00:06:45,538 --> 00:06:48,308 Let's just clean the brush. 107 00:06:48,408 --> 00:06:55,282 Once again, we clean the brush with odorless paint thinner. 108 00:06:55,382 --> 00:06:56,783 Now let's put some snow on the mountain. 109 00:06:56,883 --> 00:07:02,989 We'll take some titanium white and just a little touch of blue. 110 00:07:03,089 --> 00:07:05,258 Just a little blue. 111 00:07:06,826 --> 00:07:07,827 Okay. 112 00:07:08,929 --> 00:07:11,364 And let's let some snow just run right down this mountain. 113 00:07:11,464 --> 00:07:12,532 Just let it break and play. 114 00:07:12,632 --> 00:07:15,035 This is a very delicate touch. 115 00:07:15,135 --> 00:07:17,470 Very light touch. 116 00:07:17,570 --> 00:07:22,943 You're almost touching the canvas with a knife. 117 00:07:23,977 --> 00:07:25,178 Oh, here's a nice little ridge. 118 00:07:25,278 --> 00:07:27,414 Let's let this little ridge just play around like that. 119 00:07:27,514 --> 00:07:36,022 And there we go. 120 00:07:36,122 --> 00:07:39,960 And we'll put a little bit of light right on this little peak. 121 00:07:40,060 --> 00:07:43,096 Let it just break and play. 122 00:07:43,196 --> 00:07:48,134 Now we're gonna use blue and white mixed to a darker value for the shadow. 123 00:07:48,234 --> 00:07:52,639 And we'll start right here, and let this just follow right along. 124 00:07:52,739 --> 00:07:53,873 Let it go. 125 00:07:59,579 --> 00:08:01,414 And we'll put a little shadow behind this one. 126 00:08:01,514 --> 00:08:05,752 There we are. 127 00:08:05,852 --> 00:08:12,225 Maybe all the way over here, a little shadow. 128 00:08:12,325 --> 00:08:18,231 Each highlight needs its own private shadow. 129 00:08:18,331 --> 00:08:23,570 And we can bring this down a little further. 130 00:08:23,670 --> 00:08:25,505 As you work on these mountains, you begin 131 00:08:25,605 --> 00:08:27,640 seeing all kinds of little things happening. 132 00:08:27,741 --> 00:08:31,511 Use what you see, don't plant it. 133 00:08:34,347 --> 00:08:36,549 Bridge right here. 134 00:08:36,649 --> 00:08:38,351 Oh, there's another one, I see him right there. 135 00:08:38,451 --> 00:08:39,819 There he is. 136 00:08:44,224 --> 00:08:48,561 Okay, now let's lay the bottom of these mountains into a little bit of mist. 137 00:08:48,661 --> 00:08:51,765 Clean, dry brush, and all we're gonna do is tap. 138 00:08:51,865 --> 00:08:54,567 Always following the angles that we've created in the mountain. 139 00:08:54,667 --> 00:08:56,936 Down like so. 140 00:08:57,037 --> 00:08:58,038 Just tap. 141 00:09:03,810 --> 00:09:11,785 Okay, over here we'll follow these angles and tap in this direction. 142 00:09:12,819 --> 00:09:13,887 Okay, a little bit here. 143 00:09:13,987 --> 00:09:19,192 Then we're gonna lift upward just enough to take out the little tap marks. 144 00:09:19,292 --> 00:09:27,300 There we go. 145 00:09:29,002 --> 00:09:35,809 Okay, now we're getting a nice little misty effect over here. 146 00:09:35,909 --> 00:09:38,678 Just work that right out, and we're ready to come forward. 147 00:09:38,778 --> 00:09:43,750 We've created some almighty mountains in just a few minutes here. 148 00:09:43,850 --> 00:09:44,851 Okay. 149 00:09:45,885 --> 00:09:49,789 Now we'll take a little more of the blue and brown, and back to one of our golden rules, 150 00:09:49,889 --> 00:09:53,893 you need dark in order to show light, so we're gonna start by putting some dark on here. 151 00:09:55,228 --> 00:09:58,798 We load a lot of paint into the brush, and we 152 00:09:58,898 --> 00:10:02,936 just push in little bushes right out of the brush. 153 00:10:03,036 --> 00:10:06,239 There he comes, there he is. 154 00:10:08,041 --> 00:10:14,781 Just putting some dark on so we'll have some light showing. 155 00:10:16,082 --> 00:10:17,083 Alright. 156 00:10:18,384 --> 00:10:21,588 Okay, now we can take a brush. 157 00:10:21,688 --> 00:10:27,794 We'll use a little bit of magic white and a little bit of plain white. 158 00:10:27,894 --> 00:10:32,699 Thin paint will stick to a thick paint, so we're thinning the paint just a little bit. 159 00:10:32,799 --> 00:10:36,336 Then we're gonna push some beautiful little 160 00:10:36,436 --> 00:10:41,307 snow-covered trees way back in the distance on here. 161 00:10:41,407 --> 00:10:45,678 There, look at those son of a guns. 162 00:10:45,778 --> 00:10:47,180 There they are. 163 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:51,317 Just hundreds of little trees, little bushes, 164 00:10:51,417 --> 00:10:55,288 all these things happening way back there. 165 00:11:01,461 --> 00:11:07,867 Okay, now we'll take the big brush and clean it up a little bit. 166 00:11:07,967 --> 00:11:12,939 When we have all these nice bushes here, we need some reflections. 167 00:11:13,039 --> 00:11:16,476 So we take a clean brush, just a little bit of white paint 168 00:11:16,576 --> 00:11:20,146 on it, and we'll pull that down, just grab a hold and pull. 169 00:11:20,246 --> 00:11:23,016 Make these nice streaks. 170 00:11:23,116 --> 00:11:31,124 This is mixing with the color that we have underneath, the blue and the brown. 171 00:11:32,759 --> 00:11:38,431 These lines need to be straight down for reflections. 172 00:11:38,531 --> 00:11:43,903 Isn't that a fantastic way to make reflections? 173 00:11:46,072 --> 00:11:48,608 Now we'll go across just enough to give it a watery effect. 174 00:11:48,708 --> 00:11:50,243 We don't wanna destroy all those lines. 175 00:11:50,343 --> 00:11:56,149 We just wanna make it look like it's in the water. 176 00:11:56,249 --> 00:11:57,250 Okay. 177 00:11:58,318 --> 00:12:02,855 Let's take, lay a little touch of snow along there. 178 00:12:02,956 --> 00:12:06,726 We'll just take the knife with a little paint. 179 00:12:06,826 --> 00:12:10,964 Just put some little snow right along. 180 00:12:11,064 --> 00:12:12,131 Ooh, better get your coat out. 181 00:12:12,232 --> 00:12:15,835 This is gonna be a cold painting. 182 00:12:15,935 --> 00:12:21,975 I may have to go find my old muck locks and put them on. 183 00:12:22,075 --> 00:12:25,878 In Alaska, we have a word for people who have came to the great country 184 00:12:25,979 --> 00:12:30,083 and have only been there a short period of time, and it's called chichaco. 185 00:12:32,652 --> 00:12:37,991 And if you've been in Alaska less than a year, you're a chichaco. 186 00:12:38,091 --> 00:12:41,194 So, maybe you'll learn a new word today. 187 00:12:41,294 --> 00:12:46,899 And where I live, it's not unusual for it to get 60, 70 degrees below zero. 188 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,738 We have a thing in nature that happens that's called ice fog. 189 00:12:51,838 --> 00:12:55,508 Normally it has to be about 30 below or colder. 190 00:12:55,608 --> 00:12:59,345 And this ice fog coats everything, every little branch, 191 00:12:59,445 --> 00:13:03,216 with little crystals of ice that weigh almost nothing. 192 00:13:03,316 --> 00:13:06,619 But they create unbelievable beauty. 193 00:13:06,719 --> 00:13:08,888 Light plays through these little crystals and 194 00:13:08,988 --> 00:13:11,257 acts as little prisms and breaks up the light. 195 00:13:11,357 --> 00:13:14,694 You see all the fantastic colors shining and shimmering. 196 00:13:14,794 --> 00:13:16,963 It is really something. 197 00:13:17,063 --> 00:13:20,066 Okay, here I'm just scratching right through the paint. 198 00:13:20,166 --> 00:13:23,236 Make it look like little trunks. 199 00:13:23,336 --> 00:13:28,841 Alrighty, let's take the almighty fan brush. 200 00:13:28,941 --> 00:13:31,744 Now, during this series we have made trees with a two and 201 00:13:31,844 --> 00:13:34,714 a half inch brush, with a one inch brush, and a fan brush. 202 00:13:34,814 --> 00:13:38,685 So, all of these brushes you can use to create almighty trees. 203 00:13:38,785 --> 00:13:40,953 Today we're gonna try the fan brush. 204 00:13:41,054 --> 00:13:43,489 Load a lot of paint into the brush. 205 00:13:43,589 --> 00:13:48,161 Figure out where you'd like to have a beautiful little tree. 206 00:13:48,261 --> 00:13:51,664 And then just using the corner of the brush, 207 00:13:51,764 --> 00:13:55,335 just begin building some little limbs on here. 208 00:13:55,435 --> 00:13:56,836 There we go. 209 00:14:00,506 --> 00:14:03,609 And we're still using the blue and the brown. 210 00:14:03,710 --> 00:14:04,877 Come right down there. 211 00:14:04,977 --> 00:14:08,648 That looks like a good place for a tree. 212 00:14:08,748 --> 00:14:13,086 Push some paint right into the canvas. 213 00:14:18,324 --> 00:14:24,197 Maybe we need one over here that's sort of tired, sort of leaning over a little bit. 214 00:14:24,297 --> 00:14:29,402 In nature, trees grow in every direction. 215 00:14:29,502 --> 00:14:31,671 Maybe we'll put another one right here. 216 00:14:31,771 --> 00:14:39,746 These trees are so much fun, I get started on them and I have a hard time stopping. 217 00:14:47,420 --> 00:14:51,224 And as we work forward, we want these trees to begin 218 00:14:51,324 --> 00:14:55,428 getting much larger, to show distance in this painting. 219 00:14:57,363 --> 00:15:00,933 In so many of the techniques where people paint very rapidly, 220 00:15:01,033 --> 00:15:04,904 the paintings are very flat, very overworked, washed out looking. 221 00:15:05,004 --> 00:15:08,674 In this technique, you can create depth 222 00:15:08,775 --> 00:15:13,012 that is unbelievable, distance in paintings. 223 00:15:15,681 --> 00:15:17,016 And this is how we do it. 224 00:15:17,116 --> 00:15:20,620 We use size, we use color. 225 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:22,588 All of these things combine together to 226 00:15:22,688 --> 00:15:24,957 create the illusion of distance in a painting. 227 00:15:25,057 --> 00:15:26,492 Alrighty, now let's do some more trees. 228 00:15:26,592 --> 00:15:29,328 We'll put some on the other side over here. 229 00:15:29,429 --> 00:15:33,232 Put an almighty tree up here. 230 00:15:33,332 --> 00:15:34,700 There he is. 231 00:15:36,969 --> 00:15:38,104 Very dark. 232 00:15:45,044 --> 00:15:47,880 Just let that tree just come right out of your fan brush. 233 00:15:47,980 --> 00:15:52,051 Trees live in your fan brush, but you have to skewer them out. 234 00:15:52,151 --> 00:15:53,119 It takes a little practice. 235 00:15:53,219 --> 00:15:55,888 The first time it's gonna be a little touchy. 236 00:15:55,988 --> 00:15:57,056 The next time it gets easier. 237 00:15:57,156 --> 00:15:59,325 Each time you do it, you learn from it. 238 00:15:59,425 --> 00:16:00,893 You progress. 239 00:16:03,262 --> 00:16:05,398 I've painted for 20 years and I'm still learning. 240 00:16:05,498 --> 00:16:07,567 Every day I learn. 241 00:16:10,002 --> 00:16:12,538 Spend time studying nature if you wish to paint nature. 242 00:16:12,638 --> 00:16:15,141 You must understand nature. 243 00:16:15,241 --> 00:16:21,447 Talk to trees, look at the birds, whatever it takes. 244 00:16:21,547 --> 00:16:26,652 Okay, now then, let's do an almighty tree, big tree. 245 00:16:26,752 --> 00:16:30,189 We'll come right over in here. 246 00:16:31,858 --> 00:16:34,126 Okay, here he comes. 247 00:16:37,263 --> 00:16:38,764 Big old tree. 248 00:16:42,034 --> 00:16:43,302 You got your coat out yet? 249 00:16:43,402 --> 00:16:47,073 You may need it here any second. 250 00:16:50,009 --> 00:16:52,645 With the paintings like this on the black canvas, you 251 00:16:52,745 --> 00:16:55,381 can do a multitude of things with this, a multitude. 252 00:16:55,481 --> 00:16:57,783 You can use all different colors. 253 00:16:57,884 --> 00:17:01,921 All you're looking for is a color that's transparent so the black shows through. 254 00:17:02,021 --> 00:17:05,658 Use this black to your advantage. 255 00:17:05,758 --> 00:17:09,762 I'll have another tree right there. 256 00:17:15,902 --> 00:17:19,772 There are a lot of people we have taught to do these black 257 00:17:19,872 --> 00:17:23,910 canvases that are absolutely making a living out of it now. 258 00:17:25,077 --> 00:17:28,681 And we have literally taught thousands and 259 00:17:28,781 --> 00:17:32,585 thousands of people to be almighty painters. 260 00:17:32,685 --> 00:17:35,054 To create things of beauty they never dreamed possible. 261 00:17:35,154 --> 00:17:36,756 And you can do it too. 262 00:17:36,856 --> 00:17:41,561 You can do it. 263 00:17:41,661 --> 00:17:43,296 Just jump right in here and paint along with us. 264 00:17:43,396 --> 00:17:44,864 We'll teach you how to do it. 265 00:17:44,964 --> 00:17:49,268 We make a happy painter out of you also. 266 00:17:49,368 --> 00:17:51,003 Okay, I think that's enough trees for right now. 267 00:17:51,103 --> 00:17:57,243 Let's take a little bit of white and blue mixed together. 268 00:17:57,343 --> 00:17:59,612 Looking for a dark blue here. 269 00:17:59,712 --> 00:18:03,049 And let's go right in to this area here and let's 270 00:18:03,149 --> 00:18:06,752 put some happy little bushes and trees back in here. 271 00:18:06,852 --> 00:18:10,523 All this is is the shadow color. 272 00:18:11,924 --> 00:18:16,662 We put the shadow on first and then we'll highlight it. 273 00:18:16,762 --> 00:18:20,499 Okay, and while we got the shadow in here, let's put some right into the water. 274 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:27,740 We'll just reflect some of this right in here. 275 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:32,078 Okay now, let's have some bushes over on this side also. 276 00:18:32,178 --> 00:18:34,747 Just start bringing this painting together. 277 00:18:34,847 --> 00:18:37,049 Now at home you have unlimited time. 278 00:18:37,149 --> 00:18:41,387 You can sit and come up with all kind of fantastic things to do in this. 279 00:18:41,487 --> 00:18:43,422 You can put tremendous detail. 280 00:18:43,522 --> 00:18:46,759 Are limited on time, so we're trying to give you ideas. 281 00:18:46,859 --> 00:18:48,928 We're not trying to just give you something to copy. 282 00:18:49,028 --> 00:18:53,065 We're trying to give you an idea to teach you a technique 283 00:18:53,165 --> 00:18:57,470 so that you can use this and make unbelievable things. 284 00:18:57,570 --> 00:19:01,607 Back into the magic white and the titanium white, 285 00:19:01,707 --> 00:19:05,478 and we'll make some happy little bushes here. 286 00:19:05,578 --> 00:19:11,183 Look how that color stands out against the black. 287 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:18,224 As you work more and more in this, you will know just by pulling the brush 288 00:19:18,324 --> 00:19:22,528 through the correct consistency of the paint, if it's too thin, if it's too thick. 289 00:19:23,729 --> 00:19:26,365 It's only a matter of time where you can pull the brush 290 00:19:26,465 --> 00:19:29,001 through that paint and almost tell what brand it is. 291 00:19:29,101 --> 00:19:31,604 Now we'll just come across, we're gonna 292 00:19:31,704 --> 00:19:34,640 turn this into beautiful little reflections. 293 00:19:34,740 --> 00:19:38,811 And while we got the brush loaded here, we'll just, 294 00:19:38,911 --> 00:19:42,748 let's do this one right here, make a tree here. 295 00:19:45,951 --> 00:19:48,788 Little more of the magic white. 296 00:19:48,888 --> 00:19:53,025 And we'll come right down here and put a happy little bush. 297 00:19:53,125 --> 00:19:56,162 Now, let's reflect these right into the water, just let them reflect. 298 00:19:56,262 --> 00:20:02,535 Okay, clean off the brush. 299 00:20:09,241 --> 00:20:12,912 That's the most fun of painting, is beating your brush. 300 00:20:13,012 --> 00:20:17,683 It's a good way to get rid of all your anxieties and hostilities. 301 00:20:17,783 --> 00:20:23,355 Look at those reflections, but it's a very gentle touch. 302 00:20:23,456 --> 00:20:26,492 And we take a little bit of white paint, we'll just 303 00:20:26,592 --> 00:20:29,795 put some snow in here for all these things to sit on. 304 00:20:29,895 --> 00:20:31,263 There we go. 305 00:20:37,603 --> 00:20:45,578 Okay, a little bit of dark paint, we'll put some trunks in, some stems. 306 00:20:49,915 --> 00:20:51,984 This sort of gives the tree body, gives it 307 00:20:52,084 --> 00:20:54,520 shape, but it also shows distance in a painting. 308 00:20:54,620 --> 00:20:58,557 Use these to your advantage. 309 00:20:58,657 --> 00:21:00,259 Okay. 310 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:04,330 Take a little magic white and make us a waterline under here. 311 00:21:04,430 --> 00:21:06,565 Just use a thin paint to make your waterline. 312 00:21:06,665 --> 00:21:09,535 It'll flow off the knife. 313 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:17,074 314 00:21:23,582 --> 00:21:25,885 There we go. 315 00:21:25,985 --> 00:21:29,488 Nice little waterline. 316 00:21:29,588 --> 00:21:33,759 Okay, let's put some happy little bushes over here on the other side now. 317 00:21:33,859 --> 00:21:36,695 And we'll start right here. 318 00:21:36,796 --> 00:21:39,398 Put a nice one there. 319 00:21:39,498 --> 00:21:41,901 Leave a lot of these dark areas showing. 320 00:21:42,001 --> 00:21:43,803 Be careful that you don't cover them all up. 321 00:21:43,903 --> 00:21:48,340 Your painting will get very, very flat. 322 00:21:50,276 --> 00:21:53,712 Look at all the snow on those. 323 00:21:58,350 --> 00:22:01,720 And work them in layers so you have distance in here. 324 00:22:01,821 --> 00:22:04,890 Do one bush at a time. 325 00:22:04,990 --> 00:22:10,029 Okay, we'll put a few little sticks in here. 326 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:15,801 Okay. 327 00:22:18,904 --> 00:22:22,708 Now then, let's lay a little snow onto this side. 328 00:22:22,808 --> 00:22:26,078 Just using straight titanium white, this is very firm. 329 00:22:26,178 --> 00:22:29,915 And let it break so you have shadows showing through. 330 00:22:30,015 --> 00:22:36,455 Just like when we do the mountains, let it break. 331 00:22:36,555 --> 00:22:38,624 Okay, there we go. 332 00:22:39,859 --> 00:22:43,395 And we lay the snow in like so. 333 00:22:50,870 --> 00:22:54,707 Hmm, now maybe there was an old trapper that lived out here and one day he went to check his beaver traps and maybe he fell into the river here 334 00:22:54,807 --> 00:22:58,844 and drowned, but his old cabin's still here, so let's draw an old cabin and I suggest you scrape it with a knife first, scrape out the basic shape. 335 00:23:08,754 --> 00:23:11,056 It gets rid of the thin, loose paint underneath. 336 00:23:11,156 --> 00:23:13,893 It's also a good way to lay out your general 337 00:23:13,993 --> 00:23:16,996 shape of your cabin, get your perspective right. 338 00:23:17,096 --> 00:23:19,198 There we go. 339 00:23:19,298 --> 00:23:23,235 Very basic shape, that's all we're looking for. 340 00:23:23,335 --> 00:23:26,372 Big thing is to get rid of all that loose paint. 341 00:23:26,472 --> 00:23:34,480 Now we'll take some Van Dyke brown, and we'll do the far eave out here first. 342 00:23:39,184 --> 00:23:39,218 There. 343 00:23:39,318 --> 00:23:41,620 There we go. 344 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:49,728 Now, we'll take some titanium white, and let's lay some snow on the roof. 345 00:23:52,231 --> 00:23:53,632 Right there. 346 00:23:53,732 --> 00:23:56,969 Just bring this all together. 347 00:23:57,069 --> 00:23:58,604 There we go. 348 00:23:58,704 --> 00:24:02,641 Now we need to have a little snow on the other side of the roof, so 349 00:24:02,741 --> 00:24:06,712 we'll just take a little white on the knife and lay it in like so. 350 00:24:07,980 --> 00:24:14,954 Little more brown, and we'll begin putting all this together. 351 00:24:16,689 --> 00:24:18,891 There we go. 352 00:24:18,991 --> 00:24:24,029 What a fantastic way to make a little cabin. 353 00:24:28,567 --> 00:24:32,271 And if you want to make it look even older, you can take just a little 354 00:24:32,371 --> 00:24:35,841 bit of the white paint and let it just sort of bounce along here. 355 00:24:35,941 --> 00:24:38,711 Very gently. 356 00:24:38,811 --> 00:24:41,080 Just let it touch and bounce. 357 00:24:41,180 --> 00:24:43,682 A little more dark to create the shadows on top. 358 00:24:43,782 --> 00:24:44,717 Ooh, look at that. 359 00:24:44,817 --> 00:24:47,353 Look how old that wood looks. 360 00:24:47,453 --> 00:24:53,025 It's a super way to make old buildings and stuff if you ever want to try it. 361 00:24:53,125 --> 00:24:55,327 Okay, I think we need a door in here now. 362 00:24:55,427 --> 00:24:57,596 Somebody might come along and need to stay in this 363 00:24:57,696 --> 00:24:59,698 old cabin, so he's gotta have a way to get in. 364 00:24:59,798 --> 00:25:02,968 There we go. 365 00:25:03,068 --> 00:25:09,842 And we'll take and put some highlights around the door, just by using the knife. 366 00:25:09,942 --> 00:25:13,245 And probably, when this old trapper lived here, he's 367 00:25:13,345 --> 00:25:16,482 just like all the rest of us, he ran out of room. 368 00:25:16,582 --> 00:25:20,185 So he probably built him a little shed out here, so we'll just build us a little shed. 369 00:25:20,285 --> 00:25:26,458 Just bring a little snow for the roof first, there we go. 370 00:25:26,558 --> 00:25:29,194 Just like so. 371 00:25:29,294 --> 00:25:33,265 Take a little bit of dark paint. 372 00:25:33,365 --> 00:25:34,867 Little brown. 373 00:25:35,868 --> 00:25:42,674 And we need a wall over here, so we just drop it in. 374 00:25:42,775 --> 00:25:43,776 There. 375 00:25:47,713 --> 00:25:51,717 Okay, let's make this an old slab cabin, so we'll just 376 00:25:51,817 --> 00:25:56,188 cut in some slabs here with the point of the knife. 377 00:25:56,288 --> 00:25:57,790 There we go. 378 00:25:57,890 --> 00:26:01,860 And we can take a little white and clean this all up. 379 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:05,364 By now you should begin having a painting that's 380 00:26:05,464 --> 00:26:08,901 beginning to take shape, beginning to look well. 381 00:26:09,001 --> 00:26:12,337 Should be very happy with it. 382 00:26:14,173 --> 00:26:17,810 And I think we've said it before, but painting should do one thing for you. 383 00:26:17,910 --> 00:26:19,678 It should create happiness in your heart. 384 00:26:19,778 --> 00:26:22,581 It should make you happy. 385 00:26:22,681 --> 00:26:26,051 Let's take a little bush right here. 386 00:26:26,151 --> 00:26:29,922 Just let a few of these run down. 387 00:26:31,190 --> 00:26:33,559 Maybe another little bush right here to sort 388 00:26:33,659 --> 00:26:35,961 of push this cabin back into the painting. 389 00:26:36,061 --> 00:26:39,431 Right along like that. 390 00:26:39,531 --> 00:26:41,633 Okay, we need some highlights on this little bush. 391 00:26:41,733 --> 00:26:43,102 There we go. 392 00:26:45,404 --> 00:26:48,006 Okay, then we'll cut a few little sticks here and there. 393 00:26:48,107 --> 00:26:56,081 We're just cutting right through the light paint, letting the dark show through. 394 00:26:58,717 --> 00:26:59,718 Alright. 395 00:27:04,089 --> 00:27:06,992 This painting's beginning to get close to being done. 396 00:27:07,092 --> 00:27:12,464 Let's take the fan brush here. 397 00:27:12,564 --> 00:27:16,068 Now normally I would leave these trees very dark. 398 00:27:16,168 --> 00:27:19,671 I wanna take a little bit of blue and just tap a 399 00:27:19,771 --> 00:27:23,575 little so you can see them a little better at home. 400 00:27:23,675 --> 00:27:24,943 Just to give you an idea. 401 00:27:25,043 --> 00:27:27,646 Normally I leave them very, very dark 402 00:27:27,746 --> 00:27:31,450 They really give the impression of nighttime. 403 00:27:31,550 --> 00:27:32,551 Like so. 404 00:27:34,953 --> 00:27:40,526 Okay, just here and there, just a few little highlights. 405 00:27:40,626 --> 00:27:40,659 There. 406 00:27:40,759 --> 00:27:43,629 And just a few over here. 407 00:27:45,597 --> 00:27:54,039 Like so. 408 00:27:54,139 --> 00:27:54,306 There we go. 409 00:27:54,406 --> 00:27:57,075 Alrighty, I think we're gonna sign this painting. 410 00:27:57,176 --> 00:27:58,744 And call it finished. 411 00:27:58,844 --> 00:28:05,017 Take a little of the thin oil and let's sign him right here. 412 00:28:05,117 --> 00:28:06,585 I hope you've enjoyed this painting. 413 00:28:06,685 --> 00:28:08,053 It is a great deal of fun. 414 00:28:08,153 --> 00:28:11,023 We have certainly enjoyed being with you today. 415 00:28:11,123 --> 00:28:15,360 And I hope you've painted along with us and you also have an almighty painting. 416 00:28:15,460 --> 00:28:18,897 All you need is the dream in your heart and the desire to put it on canvas. 417 00:28:18,997 --> 00:28:21,466 Until next time, we wish you happy painting. 418 00:28:21,567 --> 00:28:23,869 Thank you very much. 419 00:28:31,810 --> 00:28:35,547 You 419 00:28:36,305 --> 00:29:36,338