"The Joy of Painting" Peaceful Valley

1 00:00:00,868 --> 00:00:02,102 Welcome back. 2 00:00:02,202 --> 00:00:04,238 Today I thought we'd do a little picture that's 3 00:00:04,338 --> 00:00:06,340 a little different than what we've been doing. 4 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:10,310 And today I want to emphasize how to do several ranges of mountains and have some 5 00:00:10,410 --> 00:00:14,448 in the background that are very quiet, very distant, and then come forward with it. 6 00:00:15,616 --> 00:00:17,384 And we'll see what happens here. 7 00:00:17,484 --> 00:00:20,354 I've already prepared the canvas with a layer 8 00:00:20,454 --> 00:00:23,557 of magic white, just brushed in both directions. 9 00:00:23,657 --> 00:00:27,394 Okay, we'll start with a little bit of Prussian blue. 10 00:00:27,494 --> 00:00:31,031 And we're really working into the bristles of the brush. 11 00:00:31,131 --> 00:00:36,870 And we'll start right at the top, working across. 12 00:00:36,970 --> 00:00:40,974 And we're picking up the magic white as we go across here. 13 00:00:41,074 --> 00:00:46,547 And automatically, it makes the sky get lighter as it works downward. 14 00:00:46,647 --> 00:00:50,551 We don't want a sky that just looks like you pulled a curtain down. 15 00:00:50,651 --> 00:00:53,854 We're trying to avoid those. 16 00:00:55,923 --> 00:00:57,558 Okay. 17 00:00:57,658 --> 00:01:00,627 And we'll hypnotize it a little bit. 18 00:01:00,727 --> 00:01:03,564 Okay. 19 00:01:03,664 --> 00:01:07,634 And while we've got some blue on the brush here, we might 20 00:01:07,734 --> 00:01:11,672 as well go ahead and put in a little bit of water here. 21 00:01:13,407 --> 00:01:17,077 This is still the Prussian blue. 22 00:01:25,686 --> 00:01:29,489 And it really doesn't matter where you get your waterline here, because when you put all 23 00:01:29,590 --> 00:01:33,694 the other stuff in, you can bring it to whatever point you want it, so don't worry about it. 24 00:01:36,930 --> 00:01:37,931 Okay. 25 00:01:40,534 --> 00:01:43,971 And we'll wash this old brush. 26 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:53,747 Alrighty, let's take some blue and a little bit of brown. 27 00:01:53,847 --> 00:01:56,817 And a little bit of white. 28 00:01:58,619 --> 00:02:02,789 Just to make sort of a gray color, blue-gray here. 29 00:02:02,889 --> 00:02:08,528 And maybe we're gonna have this mountain come way up on the canvas, what the heck. 30 00:02:08,629 --> 00:02:10,263 And just let it roll around. 31 00:02:10,364 --> 00:02:16,269 Maybe another little bump right there. 32 00:02:16,370 --> 00:02:18,905 And let it wander right on off. 33 00:02:19,006 --> 00:02:22,609 Very little paint, and we're pushing that paint 34 00:02:22,709 --> 00:02:26,013 right into the canvas, just really push it. 35 00:02:26,113 --> 00:02:34,121 And we'll put a little bump right there, another little hill. 36 00:02:35,689 --> 00:02:38,325 Okay, now we'll take and pull that paint down. 37 00:02:38,425 --> 00:02:43,063 We want it to get lighter as it goes toward the horizon here. 38 00:02:43,163 --> 00:02:43,930 So we pull it down. 39 00:02:44,031 --> 00:02:47,901 Once again, it's mixing with the magic white that's 40 00:02:48,001 --> 00:02:52,839 already on the canvas and automatically this occurs. 41 00:02:52,939 --> 00:02:57,277 And we'll pull this one down a little. 42 00:02:59,279 --> 00:03:00,781 Like so. 43 00:03:00,881 --> 00:03:04,251 Now this time we want very little paint. 44 00:03:04,351 --> 00:03:05,952 Very little paint. 45 00:03:06,053 --> 00:03:11,358 All we want to do is give little indications back here. 46 00:03:11,458 --> 00:03:13,060 Just a little. 47 00:03:14,161 --> 00:03:16,697 Few little highlights. 48 00:03:20,967 --> 00:03:24,738 Light playing right through here. 49 00:03:26,206 --> 00:03:29,309 And you'll find if you're right-handed, it's normally 50 00:03:29,409 --> 00:03:32,179 easier to have the light coming from the right. 51 00:03:32,279 --> 00:03:35,449 If you're left-handed, it will vary from person to person. 52 00:03:35,549 --> 00:03:40,520 So you sort of have to find what's comfortable for you. 53 00:03:40,620 --> 00:03:47,260 And maybe a little speck of light back here on that point. 54 00:03:53,633 --> 00:04:01,241 Maybe we'll just let these two sort of work their way together here. 55 00:04:01,341 --> 00:04:09,349 Just make an almighty ridge running right through there. 56 00:04:13,453 --> 00:04:14,354 There we go. 57 00:04:14,454 --> 00:04:17,557 Now, for the shadow, we'll use a little blue 58 00:04:17,657 --> 00:04:20,560 and white, little touch of brown with it. 59 00:04:20,660 --> 00:04:23,730 Let's put a little shadow right here. 60 00:04:23,830 --> 00:04:31,805 Don't want a great deal in the shadows this time, just a little bit. 61 00:04:37,177 --> 00:04:42,983 Maybe a little touch over here. 62 00:04:43,083 --> 00:04:48,321 Few little things happening all along the way. 63 00:04:56,763 --> 00:05:00,534 Little bit too straight, so I'm gonna break 64 00:05:00,634 --> 00:05:04,771 that up a little so it doesn't look too round. 65 00:05:06,239 --> 00:05:11,878 Don't want it to look phony, want it to look real. 66 00:05:11,978 --> 00:05:14,247 Okay, now I'm gonna really diffuse this one. 67 00:05:14,347 --> 00:05:18,251 I want it to just about disappear. 68 00:05:23,290 --> 00:05:27,627 Even gonna work a little bit in there. 69 00:05:29,396 --> 00:05:30,764 Just upward. 70 00:05:32,732 --> 00:05:35,969 Always follow the angles that you've built in your mountain. 71 00:05:36,069 --> 00:05:39,506 Always work with those angles. 72 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:47,074 73 00:05:49,149 --> 00:05:53,053 Okay, now let's build another one a little closer. 74 00:05:53,153 --> 00:05:56,389 This time I'm gonna put a little alizarin in blue. 75 00:05:56,489 --> 00:05:58,892 To give it a little bit more of a purple issue. 76 00:05:58,992 --> 00:06:02,996 A little touch of brown to dull it. 77 00:06:05,465 --> 00:06:07,601 Alright. 78 00:06:07,701 --> 00:06:13,173 And let's take this one and run right up through here. 79 00:06:13,273 --> 00:06:18,645 This being so dark should push everything back. 80 00:06:22,682 --> 00:06:25,151 Maybe a little bump there. 81 00:06:25,252 --> 00:06:31,391 Want this just to be a nice, slow rolling little hill. 82 00:06:36,196 --> 00:06:38,098 And just get in there and do it. 83 00:06:38,198 --> 00:06:46,206 Don't worry about it, let it happen. 84 00:06:47,307 --> 00:06:47,340 There. 85 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:51,778 And we'll pull this down a little bit. 86 00:06:55,782 --> 00:07:00,687 One reason we do so many mountains in this series is to teach you to use the knife. 87 00:07:00,787 --> 00:07:03,256 If you can make mountains, you've made friends with a knife. 88 00:07:03,356 --> 00:07:08,395 Then you can do just about anything you want to do with it. 89 00:07:08,495 --> 00:07:09,496 Okay. 90 00:07:11,398 --> 00:07:16,069 Maybe we'll take a little blue and white here. 91 00:07:16,169 --> 00:07:22,475 Maybe there's a few little patches of snow laying on this, just here and there. 92 00:07:22,575 --> 00:07:27,147 Just let those work down here and there. 93 00:07:32,752 --> 00:07:39,492 Maybe there's a little snow laying right in here somewhere. 94 00:07:55,442 --> 00:08:03,450 Just sort of bring that together. 95 00:08:24,671 --> 00:08:25,839 Okay. 96 00:08:25,939 --> 00:08:33,913 I'm gonna take a little bit of the blue and brown and put some sap green with it. 97 00:08:43,156 --> 00:08:48,294 There we go, very dark, it should look black. 98 00:08:51,631 --> 00:08:55,168 And now we'll load the brush up 99 00:08:59,305 --> 00:09:03,343 And let's just do some little things like this. 100 00:09:03,443 --> 00:09:11,418 Want some little indication of trees way back in the distance back here. 101 00:09:26,066 --> 00:09:28,735 And maybe a few of them have just a little bit more 102 00:09:28,835 --> 00:09:31,805 detail, so we can just add a little bit here and there. 103 00:09:31,905 --> 00:09:34,107 We're only looking for basic shapes as far back. 104 00:09:34,207 --> 00:09:38,878 You would not see a great deal of detail. 105 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:48,455 And here and there, a nice little tree that's got a little more shape. 106 00:09:57,430 --> 00:10:00,266 Chain. 107 00:10:00,366 --> 00:10:01,935 A lot of paint on the brush. 108 00:10:02,035 --> 00:10:10,043 Very, very thick. 109 00:10:25,692 --> 00:10:33,700 Just like so. 110 00:10:41,708 --> 00:10:49,682 Now then, we can take and just scratch a few little trunks here and there. 111 00:10:51,050 --> 00:10:53,686 And all we're doing here is using the point of the 112 00:10:53,786 --> 00:10:56,789 knife and cutting through the paint so the canvas shows. 113 00:10:56,890 --> 00:11:04,664 And it gives the illusion of little trunks way back in the distance. 114 00:11:06,432 --> 00:11:10,036 And you don't have to worry about cutting through the canvas with this knife. 115 00:11:10,136 --> 00:11:12,005 The canvas is very, very strong. 116 00:11:12,105 --> 00:11:15,141 And we recommend that you use stretch canvas rather than canvas boards. 117 00:11:15,241 --> 00:11:19,112 The canvas boards have cardboard in the center and they have a tendency 118 00:11:19,212 --> 00:11:23,249 to absorb your magic white very rapidly and leave you with a dry canvas. 119 00:11:25,518 --> 00:11:30,356 And we depend on this being wet through the whole picture. 120 00:11:30,456 --> 00:11:34,561 Okay, now let's take a little green. 121 00:11:36,496 --> 00:11:39,332 A little yellow and red all mixed together here. 122 00:11:39,432 --> 00:11:43,937 And let's start putting some land coming down through here. 123 00:11:44,037 --> 00:11:48,141 And all we're gonna do is just push. 124 00:11:50,977 --> 00:11:51,978 Like so. 125 00:11:57,584 --> 00:12:02,589 All the little grassy things happening here. 126 00:12:16,336 --> 00:12:19,973 Maybe here and there we can see little parts of the dirt 127 00:12:20,073 --> 00:12:24,344 showing through, little areas where there's some ground showing. 128 00:12:25,878 --> 00:12:30,283 So we just lay that in. 129 00:12:30,383 --> 00:12:34,187 And then you can just go back and sort of push it down 130 00:12:34,287 --> 00:12:38,424 into the picture, put things that are projecting over it. 131 00:12:38,524 --> 00:12:40,059 A little more magic here. 132 00:12:40,159 --> 00:12:46,899 You have to have a thin paint to make it stick on all this. 133 00:12:52,438 --> 00:12:56,376 And as these come out of the shadow, let them get a little brighter. 134 00:12:56,476 --> 00:13:00,346 These trees would shadow all back in there, so you 135 00:13:00,446 --> 00:13:04,484 want this to get a little brighter as it comes out. 136 00:13:08,187 --> 00:13:09,789 There we go. 137 00:13:09,889 --> 00:13:17,897 Now let's take and pull just a little bit of this down into the water. 138 00:13:34,414 --> 00:13:38,484 And then we'll just, just hypnotize it a little 139 00:13:38,584 --> 00:13:42,388 bit, just to sort of make it come together. 140 00:13:45,591 --> 00:13:47,093 Here I'm adding just a little bit of dark. 141 00:13:47,193 --> 00:13:50,897 We have two light areas, so we'll put a touch 142 00:13:50,997 --> 00:13:54,300 of dark in here, just to separate these. 143 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:57,136 Very, very little paint. 144 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:10,683 Okay, now, let's take a little Van Dyke brown, and we'll 145 00:14:10,783 --> 00:14:14,654 just go right along here and build us a little shore. 146 00:14:18,157 --> 00:14:26,165 Here, all we're doing is touching the canvas. 147 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:41,848 And we can put a few little sticks in here while we have some color on the knife. 148 00:14:45,718 --> 00:14:49,389 You know, when people see all these little sticks and stuff, they think you spent 149 00:14:49,489 --> 00:14:53,426 days and days with your one-haired brush, sitting here doing all these little rascals. 150 00:14:53,526 --> 00:15:01,067 And when you get them believing that, then you up the price of it. 151 00:15:02,869 --> 00:15:06,706 For a long time, I painted this way in the secrecy of my home and 152 00:15:06,806 --> 00:15:10,877 charged unbelievable prices, which a lot of painters are doing now. 153 00:15:15,348 --> 00:15:17,417 But if people see it takes you 30 minutes, then they 154 00:15:17,517 --> 00:15:19,619 don't want to pay you an unbelievable price for it. 155 00:15:19,719 --> 00:15:23,489 They want to pay you 30 minutes' labor, so you have to make a decision 156 00:15:23,589 --> 00:15:27,727 whether you want to be a traditional artist or an artist that eats regular. 157 00:15:36,402 --> 00:15:44,410 And we'll lay some little ripples along the water here. 158 00:15:57,323 --> 00:15:57,657 Just here and there. 159 00:15:57,757 --> 00:15:57,790 Okay. 160 00:15:57,890 --> 00:16:04,597 Now, maybe we'll take some of this dark color and let's put a little 161 00:16:04,697 --> 00:16:12,705 Tree right here, what the heck. 162 00:16:22,381 --> 00:16:29,489 Like so. 163 00:16:29,589 --> 00:16:31,090 And we'll take and pull some of that paint down, make this a little reflection. 164 00:16:31,190 --> 00:16:34,293 Put a little tree trunk in. 165 00:16:37,196 --> 00:16:41,267 Lay a little highlight right along here. 166 00:16:41,367 --> 00:16:43,870 Just so he stands out. 167 00:16:47,874 --> 00:16:51,677 And then he needs some leaves on him, so I'm 168 00:16:51,777 --> 00:16:55,882 gonna drop a few little leaves here and there. 169 00:17:08,027 --> 00:17:16,035 There we go. 170 00:17:28,714 --> 00:17:30,383 Very light touch. 171 00:17:30,483 --> 00:17:33,352 Don't want to destroy it. 172 00:17:37,890 --> 00:17:45,865 And we'll use just a little bit of the Van Dyke here. 173 00:17:58,711 --> 00:17:58,744 Okay. 174 00:17:58,844 --> 00:18:03,783 Now, let's put something in the foreground. 175 00:18:03,883 --> 00:18:11,857 We'll have all kind of nice little bushes and stuff just growing around here. 176 00:18:20,967 --> 00:18:28,941 And we'll highlight these real quick. 177 00:18:54,834 --> 00:19:02,808 Look at that, all those little leaves and bushes. 178 00:19:06,312 --> 00:19:08,347 And you can do it. 179 00:19:08,447 --> 00:19:11,784 You can do it, just practice a little. 180 00:19:11,884 --> 00:19:14,086 Load a lot of paint into the brush. 181 00:19:14,186 --> 00:19:22,194 Remember, thin paint will stick to a thick paint. 182 00:19:35,207 --> 00:19:39,445 Maybe just a little greenery on this. 183 00:19:47,353 --> 00:19:55,361 A little something right there. 184 00:19:57,129 --> 00:20:00,099 Okay, a few little sticks. 185 00:20:21,887 --> 00:20:24,056 Now let's get free. 186 00:20:26,358 --> 00:20:30,296 Let's have a huge limb coming out here, like there's a tree over 187 00:20:30,396 --> 00:20:34,767 here somewhere, and all you can see is the big limb coming out. 188 00:20:34,867 --> 00:20:38,237 I know this is scary, to take and put something like 189 00:20:38,337 --> 00:20:41,807 this right out through all the work you went through. 190 00:20:41,907 --> 00:20:45,010 But give it a try one time. 191 00:20:46,812 --> 00:20:52,184 And maybe we have one coming down through here. 192 00:20:59,191 --> 00:21:05,698 And then we can have some littler limbs coming off these. 193 00:21:13,606 --> 00:21:18,410 All kinds of little things happening here. 194 00:21:24,150 --> 00:21:24,917 Wherever you want them, just drop them in. 195 00:21:25,017 --> 00:21:31,991 And there's a little something just protruding right up here. 196 00:21:35,294 --> 00:21:39,198 Just a little bit of highlight on here. 197 00:21:39,298 --> 00:21:41,967 Just to break it up. 198 00:21:42,067 --> 00:21:50,075 Show the little sunlight's hitting. 199 00:21:57,716 --> 00:21:57,750 There. 200 00:21:57,850 --> 00:22:02,655 Now, let's lay some leaves on top of that. 201 00:22:03,989 --> 00:22:08,027 And we first need some dark, let me get some dark color here. 202 00:22:08,127 --> 00:22:13,632 Little bit of sap, little bit of blue and brown. 203 00:22:16,902 --> 00:22:17,069 There we go. 204 00:22:17,169 --> 00:22:19,905 And we lay a little color on the brush here. 205 00:22:20,005 --> 00:22:23,676 And now, we're just gonna start tapping 206 00:22:23,776 --> 00:22:28,013 where we want some nice little leaves to be. 207 00:22:31,650 --> 00:22:34,854 Just let them fall in there. 208 00:22:43,829 --> 00:22:51,770 This sort of helps make a nice composition of your picture and push everything back. 209 00:22:51,871 --> 00:22:59,879 Think you'll like this once you try it. 210 00:23:01,413 --> 00:23:03,616 As I say, first time it's sort of a son of a gun just to 211 00:23:03,716 --> 00:23:05,918 throw all this right out in the middle of your picture. 212 00:23:06,018 --> 00:23:08,020 It's gonna scare you a little bit. 213 00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:10,489 But jump in there and do it. 214 00:23:10,589 --> 00:23:12,691 Remember, you're the master. 215 00:23:12,791 --> 00:23:18,264 This canvas is afraid of you, you're the master. 216 00:23:23,869 --> 00:23:31,844 Okay, now we can take a lighter color green, a little more magic in it. 217 00:23:33,746 --> 00:23:37,016 And we'll load this brush full. 218 00:23:37,116 --> 00:23:38,450 And think where your light's coming from. 219 00:23:38,550 --> 00:23:42,421 The top of these are gonna be a little brighter than the bottom, 220 00:23:42,521 --> 00:23:46,558 so we'll just lay a little bit of color right along the top here. 221 00:23:48,827 --> 00:23:52,631 This is where you need a good brush, though. 222 00:23:52,731 --> 00:23:55,534 Be very careful about the brush you use. 223 00:23:55,634 --> 00:23:58,971 Avoid nylon brushes, they cut paint. 224 00:23:59,071 --> 00:24:02,942 These are natural bristle brushes. 225 00:24:14,753 --> 00:24:17,056 Color right in here. 226 00:24:21,393 --> 00:24:25,297 I always remember, back when I was a traditional painter, how long I would 227 00:24:25,397 --> 00:24:29,401 agonize trying to do something like this with the little one-haired brush. 228 00:24:31,003 --> 00:24:39,011 Working for days and days and days to get an effect that you can now get in minutes. 229 00:24:57,596 --> 00:24:59,231 There we go. 230 00:24:59,331 --> 00:25:03,135 And we have almighty limbs projecting right out in our picture. 231 00:25:03,235 --> 00:25:06,505 And it makes it look like there's a tree over here. 232 00:25:06,605 --> 00:25:11,043 Okay, maybe, maybe right in here. 233 00:25:11,143 --> 00:25:12,611 Let's do this. 234 00:25:12,711 --> 00:25:15,681 Let's have an old tree that's falling over. 235 00:25:15,781 --> 00:25:17,950 Coming right up through here. 236 00:25:18,050 --> 00:25:21,553 If you got all your nerve up and done this one, 237 00:25:21,653 --> 00:25:25,257 shoot, we might as well just keep going with it. 238 00:25:25,357 --> 00:25:28,560 No use letting you stop now. 239 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:40,906 And maybe he had a little friend that fell over with him. 240 00:25:44,309 --> 00:25:44,476 There we go. 241 00:25:44,576 --> 00:25:46,178 Now don't laugh, trees need friends too. 242 00:25:46,278 --> 00:25:49,014 Everybody needs friends. 243 00:25:55,854 --> 00:25:55,888 Okay. 244 00:25:55,988 --> 00:26:01,060 Take a little white and a little brown here. 245 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,263 Maybe we'll put just the least little touch of 246 00:26:04,363 --> 00:26:08,133 Sort of an orangey color in it. 247 00:26:08,233 --> 00:26:12,137 And we're gonna just work that right down here and 248 00:26:12,237 --> 00:26:16,208 make him look old and tired, just barely touching. 249 00:26:20,112 --> 00:26:24,283 Just pull that right along, like so. 250 00:26:24,383 --> 00:26:28,087 Let it go. 251 00:26:28,187 --> 00:26:34,326 Okay, now we'll take and put a few little bushes in front. 252 00:26:34,426 --> 00:26:38,097 So he has a place for his foots to sit. 253 00:26:38,197 --> 00:26:47,072 And we'll take the liner brush, a little bit of thin oil, like so, there we go. 254 00:26:47,172 --> 00:26:52,244 And we'll put a few little limbs hanging on here that are just about gone. 255 00:26:52,344 --> 00:26:55,214 Just here and there. 256 00:26:55,314 --> 00:27:01,587 Let them go every which way, whatever makes them happy. 257 00:27:04,089 --> 00:27:05,858 And maybe this one's just hanging down. 258 00:27:05,958 --> 00:27:08,026 Ooh, he's tired. 259 00:27:08,127 --> 00:27:12,564 Poor old thing. 260 00:27:12,664 --> 00:27:15,934 There. 261 00:27:16,034 --> 00:27:18,036 This old tree's just about gone. 262 00:27:18,137 --> 00:27:22,474 It's gonna fall over here in the pond. 263 00:27:24,776 --> 00:27:29,348 Maybe a little limb or two left up here. 264 00:27:31,950 --> 00:27:33,986 Something like so. 265 00:27:40,125 --> 00:27:44,897 Okay, I think we'll sign that one and call it finished. 266 00:27:44,997 --> 00:27:47,633 And there we go. 267 00:27:47,733 --> 00:27:51,003 And I'd like to thank you very, very much for watching us today. 268 00:27:51,103 --> 00:27:54,740 I hope you've enjoyed this painting and that you painted along with us. 269 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:56,642 And until next time, happy painting. 270 00:27:56,742 --> 00:28:04,750 Thank you very, very much. 270 00:28:05,305 --> 00:29:05,648 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm