"The Joy of Painting" Meadow Lake

1 00:00:01,448 --> 00:00:05,236 Hello, I'm Bob Ross, and for the next 13 weeks, I'll 2 00:00:05,260 --> 00:00:08,925 be your host as we experience the joy of painting. 3 00:00:08,975 --> 00:00:13,348 This is a fantastic method of painting, where we use a wet-on-wet technique. 4 00:00:13,398 --> 00:00:16,278 And before I go far into the show, I'd like 5 00:00:16,302 --> 00:00:19,274 to take a few minutes and make a dedication. 6 00:00:19,324 --> 00:00:23,431 I would like to dedicate this show to my beloved friend and teacher, whom we've 7 00:00:23,455 --> 00:00:27,324 all watched and loved for many years on public television, Bill Alexander. 8 00:00:29,933 --> 00:00:33,716 And years ago, Bill taught me this fantastic technique, and I feel as 9 00:00:33,740 --> 00:00:37,933 though he gave me a precious gift, and I'd like to share that gift with you. 10 00:00:39,610 --> 00:00:41,562 So before we start, let's talk a minute 11 00:00:41,586 --> 00:00:43,867 about the equipment that we'll be using here. 12 00:00:43,917 --> 00:00:46,832 We're using a stretch canvas rather than a canvas board. 13 00:00:46,882 --> 00:00:52,091 The canvas board will absorb your underpaint very rapidly and become dry. 14 00:00:52,141 --> 00:00:56,375 You need a strong easel because we use a lot of pressure here. 15 00:00:56,425 --> 00:01:00,558 And you need an easel that would grip the canvas and hold it securely. 16 00:01:00,608 --> 00:01:02,500 The palette that we use. 17 00:01:02,550 --> 00:01:07,444 We use a large palette that has a lot of working area in it. 18 00:01:07,494 --> 00:01:10,907 And I'm gonna go over each of the colors that we use here. 19 00:01:10,957 --> 00:01:12,595 And they'll be flashed across the screen. 20 00:01:12,619 --> 00:01:15,040 So if you need to write them down, you can pick 21 00:01:15,064 --> 00:01:17,353 them up off the screen as I talk about them. 22 00:01:17,403 --> 00:01:18,140 So here we go. 23 00:01:18,164 --> 00:01:23,403 Let's start right up here with titanium white. 24 00:01:23,427 --> 00:01:27,453 Phthalo green, phthalo blue, Prussian blue, burnt umber, van dyke brown, alizarin 25 00:01:27,477 --> 00:01:31,427 crimson, sap green, cad yellow, yellow ochre, Indian yellow, and permanent red. 26 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:39,074 27 00:01:49,803 --> 00:01:52,177 Now these 12 colors we'll use every week. 28 00:01:52,227 --> 00:01:55,764 So if you want to have your palette ready, these are the colors that we'll use. 29 00:01:55,814 --> 00:01:59,588 Also each week we'll run the colors across the screen, so in case 30 00:01:59,612 --> 00:02:03,177 you didn't get all these, you can pick them up the next time. 31 00:02:03,227 --> 00:02:06,243 The brushes that we use, these are natural bristle brushes. 32 00:02:06,293 --> 00:02:09,929 I'm using a two and a half inch and a one inch brush. 33 00:02:09,979 --> 00:02:14,137 Also we use an almighty palette knife, a very big palette knife. 34 00:02:14,187 --> 00:02:18,479 And this palette knife, unlike traditional palette knives, is very firm. 35 00:02:18,529 --> 00:02:19,967 It's very big. 36 00:02:20,017 --> 00:02:23,368 So we can do almighty things very rapidly here. 37 00:02:23,418 --> 00:02:24,950 So let's do it. 38 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,354 Let's paint an almighty picture right here. 39 00:02:27,404 --> 00:02:31,701 I'm gonna start by dipping the brush into a little bit of magic white. 40 00:02:31,751 --> 00:02:34,643 Now, this makes the canvas wet, it makes it 41 00:02:34,667 --> 00:02:37,650 slick, it allows the paint to blend in here. 42 00:02:37,700 --> 00:02:40,475 You actually blend a painting on the canvas. 43 00:02:40,525 --> 00:02:43,159 So all we do here is cover the entire 44 00:02:43,183 --> 00:02:46,344 canvas with a thin layer of the magic white. 45 00:02:46,394 --> 00:02:47,394 Alright. 46 00:02:48,241 --> 00:02:50,493 Probably the biggest mistake made when you 47 00:02:50,517 --> 00:02:52,955 first start is applying too much magic white. 48 00:02:53,005 --> 00:02:56,499 All we want is just a nice, thin, even coat. 49 00:02:56,549 --> 00:02:58,747 And when you're using large brushes, this 50 00:02:58,771 --> 00:03:01,263 only takes a couple of minutes, so no problem. 51 00:03:01,313 --> 00:03:02,570 Here we go. 52 00:03:03,976 --> 00:03:08,670 Looky there, already we're almost complete. 53 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:09,720 There. 54 00:03:10,962 --> 00:03:14,980 Okay, now just work it back and forth and up and 55 00:03:15,004 --> 00:03:18,962 down to get a nice, even distribution of color. 56 00:03:19,477 --> 00:03:27,248 Okay, we've just about got this canvas covered with the magic white. 57 00:03:29,668 --> 00:03:35,384 Another big problem that we run into continually is washing the brushes. 58 00:03:35,434 --> 00:03:39,989 Now, I'm gonna wash the brush, and we wash it with odorless paint thinner. 59 00:03:40,039 --> 00:03:42,315 And I strongly suggest that you use odorless, or 60 00:03:42,339 --> 00:03:44,734 you'll run everybody in the house out in the yard. 61 00:03:44,784 --> 00:03:47,405 You'll be there by yourself. 62 00:03:47,455 --> 00:03:52,502 Now we shake the brush into a box and then beat the bristles dry. 63 00:03:52,552 --> 00:03:54,686 Now if you do this at home, this is a quick 64 00:03:54,710 --> 00:03:57,068 way to redecorate your living room in a second. 65 00:03:57,118 --> 00:03:59,932 So be careful, learn how to contain this. 66 00:03:59,982 --> 00:04:02,747 Alrighty, let's do a simple little picture today that'll 67 00:04:02,771 --> 00:04:05,760 just give you an idea of how this fantastic technique works. 68 00:04:05,810 --> 00:04:08,744 So I'm gonna start here with a little bit of Prussian blue. 69 00:04:08,794 --> 00:04:12,769 And we pull a small amount of paint out and beat it into the bristles. 70 00:04:12,819 --> 00:04:15,253 Really work this paint into the bristles. 71 00:04:15,303 --> 00:04:17,505 You're looking for a nice, even distribution 72 00:04:17,529 --> 00:04:19,198 of color throughout the bristles. 73 00:04:19,248 --> 00:04:21,891 And we'll start right up here at the top, and we 74 00:04:21,915 --> 00:04:24,526 just make little Xs, little crisscross pattern. 75 00:04:24,576 --> 00:04:27,911 Come all the way across the top. 76 00:04:27,961 --> 00:04:29,332 There we go. 77 00:04:29,764 --> 00:04:33,801 Now your brush is picking up the magic white, and automatically the 78 00:04:33,825 --> 00:04:37,764 sky is gonna get lighter in value as it works toward the horizon. 79 00:04:37,996 --> 00:04:38,996 There. 80 00:04:40,860 --> 00:04:43,374 See how easy that was? 81 00:04:44,285 --> 00:04:45,285 Okay. 82 00:04:45,370 --> 00:04:49,104 And very gently, we'll just blend this out. 83 00:04:49,154 --> 00:04:51,353 Now it's very easy to make a sky darker, but 84 00:04:51,377 --> 00:04:53,448 it's the sun of a gun to make it lighter. 85 00:04:53,498 --> 00:04:55,929 If you want to make it a little darker, all you 86 00:04:55,953 --> 00:04:58,513 do is add a little more blue, a little more blue. 87 00:04:58,563 --> 00:05:00,515 This stuff is really strong. 88 00:05:00,565 --> 00:05:02,837 And go right back through the same procedure. 89 00:05:02,887 --> 00:05:06,887 You can darken the sky very easily. 90 00:05:06,951 --> 00:05:07,951 Alright. 91 00:05:10,254 --> 00:05:13,282 Another thing that seems to give us a lot of problems, 92 00:05:13,332 --> 00:05:14,664 is almighty clouds. 93 00:05:14,714 --> 00:05:17,969 So let's spend a second here and make us a cloud. 94 00:05:18,019 --> 00:05:19,852 And here we'll use the fan brush. 95 00:05:19,902 --> 00:05:25,860 And I'm gonna take the fan brush and load it full of titanium white paint. 96 00:05:25,910 --> 00:05:26,848 Load it full. 97 00:05:26,872 --> 00:05:30,414 A lot of paint in the bristles. 98 00:05:30,938 --> 00:05:33,170 Okay now, we'll go up here and decide where 99 00:05:33,194 --> 00:05:35,554 we want a happy little cloud to float around. 100 00:05:35,604 --> 00:05:39,981 And you touch the canvas and just make little tiny circles. 101 00:05:40,031 --> 00:05:42,830 Just work it, work it, work it. 102 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:45,513 Do it rapidly, push hard and get away from it. 103 00:05:45,563 --> 00:05:47,055 Don't keep working the same area. 104 00:05:47,105 --> 00:05:51,139 All you'll have is a big cotton ball up in the sky. 105 00:05:51,189 --> 00:05:55,984 Okay, maybe we'll put another little cloud right over here. 106 00:05:56,034 --> 00:05:59,909 Just to show you how to make these little clouds. 107 00:05:59,959 --> 00:06:03,904 Okay, now, with a large brush, we want to very gently blend this 108 00:06:03,928 --> 00:06:07,959 out on the bottom down here, but without touching the top at all. 109 00:06:08,408 --> 00:06:11,771 So very gently, just the bottom. 110 00:06:11,821 --> 00:06:14,254 Just blend it a little bit. 111 00:06:14,304 --> 00:06:16,589 Little tiny circles. 112 00:06:18,088 --> 00:06:18,925 There we go. 113 00:06:18,949 --> 00:06:23,304 Now over here we'll blend this one a little. 114 00:06:23,354 --> 00:06:24,745 Now we'll fluff it. 115 00:06:24,795 --> 00:06:27,969 And we're just gonna gently lift upward. 116 00:06:28,019 --> 00:06:33,134 And don't worry if you get some of these little things up in the sky. 117 00:06:33,184 --> 00:06:34,184 Okay. 118 00:06:34,405 --> 00:06:38,366 Now very gently we'll hypnotize that. 119 00:06:38,416 --> 00:06:38,993 There we go. 120 00:06:39,017 --> 00:06:44,197 These are very simple, very basic little clouds and very easy to do. 121 00:06:44,247 --> 00:06:47,448 Now if your brush sheds like it just did here and you get a 122 00:06:47,472 --> 00:06:50,970 hair on you, just take the corner of your brush and lift it off. 123 00:06:51,020 --> 00:06:52,539 Don't spend all day trying to pick it off. 124 00:06:52,563 --> 00:06:54,958 You'll have fingerprints all over your painting. 125 00:06:55,008 --> 00:06:58,024 Just use the corner of your brush. 126 00:06:58,074 --> 00:06:59,074 Alright. 127 00:07:01,636 --> 00:07:03,989 Let's now make an almighty mountain. 128 00:07:04,039 --> 00:07:07,313 Everybody likes mountains, no matter if you live in Florida or Alaska. 129 00:07:07,363 --> 00:07:09,095 Mountains are still pretty. 130 00:07:09,145 --> 00:07:12,688 I'm gonna take a little bit of the Prussian blue, 131 00:07:12,712 --> 00:07:16,425 some Van Dyke brown, and a little touch of crimson. 132 00:07:16,475 --> 00:07:18,760 Very little crimson. 133 00:07:20,159 --> 00:07:23,193 And we'll mix that up real good. 134 00:07:23,243 --> 00:07:29,741 Now, all you need to do here is push this almighty knife right into the canvas. 135 00:07:29,791 --> 00:07:30,933 Just push. 136 00:07:32,517 --> 00:07:37,888 Really pushing the paint right into the fabric. 137 00:07:37,986 --> 00:07:38,986 There. 138 00:07:39,709 --> 00:07:46,230 And all we're looking for is just a basic outline for this mountain. 139 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:50,069 And you may have noticed by now, we use no patterns, we do no 140 00:07:50,093 --> 00:07:54,280 sketching, we let this flow right out of our heart onto the canvas. 141 00:07:54,433 --> 00:07:58,775 There, now with a large brush, I'm just gonna pull this down. 142 00:07:58,825 --> 00:08:02,004 One thing about mountains when you're painting them, they should 143 00:08:02,028 --> 00:08:05,180 always be more distinct at the top than they are at the bottom. 144 00:08:05,230 --> 00:08:09,324 Because at the bottom of the mountain we have mist and now we have pollution. 145 00:08:09,374 --> 00:08:12,002 All of these things diffuse and break up light 146 00:08:12,026 --> 00:08:14,909 and create the mist at the bottom of the mountain. 147 00:08:14,959 --> 00:08:17,022 So once again, we allow the magic white to mix 148 00:08:17,046 --> 00:08:19,132 with the paint and this happens automatically. 149 00:08:19,182 --> 00:08:22,335 We don't have to worry about it or think about it. 150 00:08:22,385 --> 00:08:23,985 Let it happen. 151 00:08:24,887 --> 00:08:25,887 Alright. 152 00:08:26,428 --> 00:08:29,133 Let's put some snow on this almighty mountain. 153 00:08:29,183 --> 00:08:33,159 We'll use a little of the titanium white, and we're gonna start right up 154 00:08:33,183 --> 00:08:37,183 here on this peak, and just let this paint flow right down the mountain. 155 00:08:38,072 --> 00:08:41,927 And you want the paint to break like this, so it creates all the 156 00:08:41,951 --> 00:08:46,072 little rocks and stones and highlights and shadows in your mountain. 157 00:08:47,001 --> 00:08:48,001 There. 158 00:08:52,226 --> 00:08:58,283 Now, light's gonna strike right along this peak also. 159 00:08:58,546 --> 00:09:03,460 And maybe just a little touch back in here. 160 00:09:04,192 --> 00:09:05,563 Now let's build some shadows. 161 00:09:05,613 --> 00:09:12,813 And we'll just use a little bit of the Prussian blue and white. 162 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:16,537 Maybe a touch more, there we go. 163 00:09:17,344 --> 00:09:19,717 Now the shadows will run in the opposite direction. 164 00:09:19,767 --> 00:09:25,883 We'll start here and just let the shadows run right across like this. 165 00:09:25,933 --> 00:09:28,333 There comes a shadow. 166 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:33,232 Okay, we'll put one back here. 167 00:09:33,282 --> 00:09:36,916 And we've decided this peak is behind the mountain. 168 00:09:36,966 --> 00:09:40,540 So all we do is take this shadow and bring it right through. 169 00:09:40,590 --> 00:09:43,604 And automatically, you just pushed a mountain around. 170 00:09:43,654 --> 00:09:46,627 On this canvas, you're the creator. 171 00:09:46,677 --> 00:09:48,470 Anything that you want, you can build here. 172 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:50,312 This is your world. 173 00:09:50,362 --> 00:09:53,447 Your dreams come real here. 174 00:09:53,746 --> 00:09:55,688 Alright, there. 175 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:01,714 Maybe we'll add just a couple more little peaks in here. 176 00:10:01,764 --> 00:10:09,492 Maybe there's a happy little peak right here. 177 00:10:09,516 --> 00:10:12,944 We put the highlight in first. 178 00:10:14,364 --> 00:10:18,760 And then we give him his own private little shadow right there. 179 00:10:18,810 --> 00:10:22,085 Now this is a very basic, simple little mountain. 180 00:10:22,135 --> 00:10:25,303 And as the series progresses, we'll do some that are 181 00:10:25,327 --> 00:10:28,642 a little more complicated if this is too easy for you. 182 00:10:28,692 --> 00:10:32,013 There we go. 183 00:10:32,037 --> 00:10:33,037 Okay. 184 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:36,337 Now, as we had talked about earlier, we always want it 185 00:10:36,361 --> 00:10:39,058 to be more distinct on the top than it is on the bottom. 186 00:10:39,108 --> 00:10:44,788 So, using the large brush here, I'm gonna very gently tap the bottom of the mountain. 187 00:10:44,838 --> 00:10:46,209 I'm tapping. 188 00:10:46,340 --> 00:10:47,472 All I wanna do is diffuse. 189 00:10:47,522 --> 00:10:50,379 I don't wanna destroy it. 190 00:10:51,107 --> 00:10:54,529 There we go. 191 00:10:54,553 --> 00:10:57,744 Always following the angles. 192 00:10:57,768 --> 00:11:02,986 Now, very gently, lift upward using the brush flat. 193 00:11:03,036 --> 00:11:06,693 Look at that, look at that mist. 194 00:11:09,385 --> 00:11:12,585 See, I knew you could do it. 195 00:11:13,150 --> 00:11:15,764 Alright, I think it's time we had some fun now. 196 00:11:15,814 --> 00:11:19,449 Let's get over here into the sap green and just load this brush full of paint. 197 00:11:19,499 --> 00:11:22,874 Just put a lot of paint into the brush. 198 00:11:22,924 --> 00:11:25,879 Just really work it into the bristles. 199 00:11:25,929 --> 00:11:26,887 And, 200 00:11:26,911 --> 00:11:30,364 We're gonna go right along here and touch and push. 201 00:11:30,414 --> 00:11:31,556 Just push. 202 00:11:32,276 --> 00:11:33,761 Just like so. 203 00:11:35,919 --> 00:11:37,716 Now this is where you need the almighty easel 204 00:11:37,740 --> 00:11:39,358 because you're really pushing hard here. 205 00:11:39,382 --> 00:11:43,996 You're pushing the paint right into the fabric. 206 00:11:44,046 --> 00:11:46,103 Okay, there we go. 207 00:11:49,591 --> 00:11:50,942 Just push it in. 208 00:11:50,992 --> 00:11:53,384 This is just straight sap green. 209 00:11:53,434 --> 00:11:54,965 And you're bending the bristles. 210 00:11:55,015 --> 00:11:59,815 Most important that you bend the bristles. 211 00:12:00,374 --> 00:12:06,284 Okay. 212 00:12:06,308 --> 00:12:10,949 Now I'm gonna go into just a tiny bit of Prussian blue. 213 00:12:10,999 --> 00:12:13,034 And we'll darken the front here. 214 00:12:13,084 --> 00:12:21,084 As things get closer to you in the landscape, they should get darker in value. 215 00:12:21,215 --> 00:12:23,138 You know, while I'm doing that, one of the most 216 00:12:23,162 --> 00:12:25,109 interesting things that we see as we run across 217 00:12:25,133 --> 00:12:27,275 the country teaching this fantastic method is people 218 00:12:27,299 --> 00:12:29,215 continually say, I can't draw a straight line. 219 00:12:31,450 --> 00:12:34,525 I don't have the talent, Bob, to do what you're doing. 220 00:12:34,575 --> 00:12:36,027 That's baloney. 221 00:12:36,077 --> 00:12:38,812 Talent is a pursued interest. 222 00:12:38,862 --> 00:12:42,898 In other words, anything that you're willing to practice, you can do. 223 00:12:42,948 --> 00:12:45,321 And this is no exception. 224 00:12:45,371 --> 00:12:46,623 But it's like driving the car. 225 00:12:46,673 --> 00:12:47,991 At first, it's a little difficult. 226 00:12:48,015 --> 00:12:51,759 You have to learn how to make your hands and your foots work together. 227 00:12:51,809 --> 00:12:57,085 Same thing, and that's what we're trying to teach you here, is the technique. 228 00:12:57,135 --> 00:13:00,425 Once you have the technique down, all you need is a 229 00:13:00,449 --> 00:13:03,893 dream in your heart and a desire to put it on canvas. 230 00:13:03,943 --> 00:13:07,945 Okay, now, let's go back here in the background a little bit, and we'll mix up 231 00:13:07,969 --> 00:13:11,943 some blue, this is Prussian blue, brown, Van Dyke brown in about equal parts, 232 00:13:19,872 --> 00:13:23,767 And sap green, all three of these are in about equal parts. 233 00:13:23,817 --> 00:13:28,114 And it should look very dark, it should look black on your palette. 234 00:13:28,164 --> 00:13:29,882 Okay. 235 00:13:29,906 --> 00:13:33,597 Now with a fan brush here, we'll make some, let's make some 236 00:13:33,621 --> 00:13:37,587 little evergreens back here in front of this almighty mountain. 237 00:13:37,637 --> 00:13:40,097 And there's many, many ways to make them and we'll 238 00:13:40,121 --> 00:13:42,654 try to show you a bunch of ways during this series. 239 00:13:42,704 --> 00:13:47,523 Okay, we load the fan brush full of paint, and decide where you want your tree to be. 240 00:13:47,573 --> 00:13:51,506 You touch the canvas, turn the brush sideways, 241 00:13:51,530 --> 00:13:55,573 and just begin building a tree, back and forth. 242 00:13:55,627 --> 00:13:57,455 Isn't that easy? 243 00:13:58,533 --> 00:14:00,552 Looky there. 244 00:14:00,576 --> 00:14:04,463 And trees get lonely too, they need a little 245 00:14:04,487 --> 00:14:08,576 friend, so we'll give him a friend right here. 246 00:14:09,772 --> 00:14:12,692 And you know, sometimes you don't want to have a bunch of distinct trees. 247 00:14:12,717 --> 00:14:14,810 You just want indications of trees. 248 00:14:14,860 --> 00:14:16,212 So watch right here. 249 00:14:16,262 --> 00:14:17,715 This is the way to make indications. 250 00:14:17,765 --> 00:14:20,965 All we're doing is touching. 251 00:14:21,010 --> 00:14:22,610 Just touching. 252 00:14:24,195 --> 00:14:26,435 And this looks like little trees when the painting's finished. 253 00:14:26,459 --> 00:14:30,916 It is way, way, they're way back in the background. 254 00:14:30,966 --> 00:14:34,247 And maybe over here. 255 00:14:34,271 --> 00:14:35,643 Just drop these in. 256 00:14:35,693 --> 00:14:39,776 This is such a free style of painting. 257 00:14:39,826 --> 00:14:40,826 There. 258 00:14:41,648 --> 00:14:45,262 And maybe there's some here that are a little closer. 259 00:14:45,312 --> 00:14:46,389 And we'll just drop them in. 260 00:14:46,413 --> 00:14:50,347 Let them just fall right off your fan brush. 261 00:14:50,397 --> 00:14:51,768 There we go. 262 00:14:53,841 --> 00:14:55,212 There we go. 263 00:14:59,007 --> 00:15:00,464 Okay, we'll put a little more dark in here. 264 00:15:00,488 --> 00:15:06,287 You need dark in order to show light, so here I'm just applying a little dark color. 265 00:15:06,337 --> 00:15:09,872 Now, another golden rule that you need to remember here. 266 00:15:09,922 --> 00:15:12,736 A thin paint will stick to a thick paint. 267 00:15:12,786 --> 00:15:15,091 So I'm adding just a touch of magic white on 268 00:15:15,115 --> 00:15:17,603 my brush here to go through this thicker paint. 269 00:15:17,653 --> 00:15:20,594 And this will make it a little bit thinner so it'll stick on top of the thick paint. 270 00:15:20,618 --> 00:15:24,874 This is why we're able to paint wet on wet. 271 00:15:24,924 --> 00:15:28,820 Okay, now let's put some happy little things happening back in here. 272 00:15:28,870 --> 00:15:31,484 Just some little bushes and stuff. 273 00:15:31,534 --> 00:15:33,987 Here they come, down the hill. 274 00:15:34,037 --> 00:15:36,665 Just let them progress. 275 00:15:39,935 --> 00:15:41,306 There we go. 276 00:15:45,902 --> 00:15:50,359 There, look at all them little rascals. 277 00:15:51,889 --> 00:15:55,835 Okay, with the knife here, I'm just using the point, 278 00:15:55,859 --> 00:15:59,828 and I'll scratch a few little trunks here and there. 279 00:15:59,878 --> 00:16:04,613 See, already it looks like we have a multitude of trees and stuff back here. 280 00:16:04,663 --> 00:16:08,943 Okay, now let's move a little forward in the painting. 281 00:16:08,993 --> 00:16:11,906 And I'm gonna come right about here. 282 00:16:11,956 --> 00:16:13,187 There we go. 283 00:16:13,237 --> 00:16:16,491 And we'll drop a bigger tree in here. 284 00:16:16,541 --> 00:16:17,097 There he goes. 285 00:16:17,121 --> 00:16:19,223 There he is. 286 00:16:22,427 --> 00:16:23,427 There. 287 00:16:23,468 --> 00:16:29,184 These little trees live in your fan brush and you have to scare them out sometime. 288 00:16:29,234 --> 00:16:32,853 There. 289 00:16:32,877 --> 00:16:36,077 See, I knew you could do it. 290 00:16:37,082 --> 00:16:39,470 Just let that come right on down. 291 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:42,094 We got some trees on the other side over here too. 292 00:16:42,144 --> 00:16:44,657 Let's put an almighty tree right here. 293 00:16:44,707 --> 00:16:48,944 We're having such a lot of fun doing these trees, 294 00:16:48,968 --> 00:16:52,707 we might as well just keep going with them. 295 00:16:58,787 --> 00:17:02,862 Okay, and by now you're probably saying, hey, can he do anything but evergreens? 296 00:17:02,912 --> 00:17:06,133 Alright, let's do some different types of trees. 297 00:17:06,183 --> 00:17:10,419 And we'll take a one inch brush and load some of the same color on it here. 298 00:17:10,469 --> 00:17:14,354 And let's put in some leafy trees. 299 00:17:15,916 --> 00:17:16,754 There we go. 300 00:17:16,778 --> 00:17:18,810 Just push them right off your brush. 301 00:17:18,860 --> 00:17:19,678 Bend the bristles. 302 00:17:19,702 --> 00:17:23,196 Most important that you bend the bristles. 303 00:17:23,246 --> 00:17:27,763 So you get all the actions that happen there. 304 00:17:27,813 --> 00:17:32,270 And maybe over here a nice little tree. 305 00:17:38,380 --> 00:17:39,751 There we go. 306 00:17:40,323 --> 00:17:41,856 Now, let's put a little trunk in here. 307 00:17:41,906 --> 00:17:46,134 I'll use a little bit of burnt umber. 308 00:17:47,475 --> 00:17:52,503 And let's just lay some happy little trunks. 309 00:17:52,925 --> 00:17:58,063 Okay, and the little evergreen trees, just here and there. 310 00:17:58,113 --> 00:17:59,484 There we go. 311 00:18:01,539 --> 00:18:07,052 And we need a trunk in this big old tree over here. 312 00:18:07,102 --> 00:18:07,959 One in there. 313 00:18:07,983 --> 00:18:11,928 You can also take just the point of your knife and scratch right 314 00:18:11,952 --> 00:18:15,983 through the paint and put all kind of little indications in here. 315 00:18:17,798 --> 00:18:18,798 Alright. 316 00:18:20,002 --> 00:18:24,659 A little more of the thin paint to thin this down. 317 00:18:24,709 --> 00:18:27,543 And we'll put some happy little highlights on there. 318 00:18:27,593 --> 00:18:32,250 Maybe we'll say this is, this looks like fall, so let's use some bright colors here. 319 00:18:32,300 --> 00:18:37,038 And they show up good on your set at home. 320 00:18:37,088 --> 00:18:40,059 Look at that son of a gun. 321 00:18:43,235 --> 00:18:44,377 Okay, now. 322 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:50,720 There we go. 323 00:18:50,744 --> 00:18:52,229 Alright, now. 324 00:18:52,646 --> 00:18:57,001 Down in the bottom down here, we need some nice little bushes that are happening. 325 00:18:57,051 --> 00:18:59,611 One thing to be very careful of, don't kill all your dark areas. 326 00:18:59,654 --> 00:19:05,368 If you kill them, your painting becomes very flat. 327 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:17,080 And maybe there's a happy little bush right here. 328 00:19:17,772 --> 00:19:22,114 And a big old one here, big tree here. 329 00:19:25,828 --> 00:19:26,828 Alright. 330 00:19:28,273 --> 00:19:32,872 And a little something underneath here, just to give it a little more depth. 331 00:19:32,922 --> 00:19:34,293 There we go. 332 00:19:37,754 --> 00:19:41,795 Now, we'll cut a few more little sticks and twigs here and there. 333 00:19:41,845 --> 00:19:44,142 And this helps create depth in the painting. 334 00:19:44,192 --> 00:19:46,228 It shows different planes. 335 00:19:46,278 --> 00:19:49,657 The more planes you can show, the deeper the painting will be. 336 00:19:49,707 --> 00:19:54,107 So we'll just cut a few of them in here. 337 00:19:54,157 --> 00:19:55,589 You know, it's interesting. 338 00:19:55,639 --> 00:19:58,719 I was doing this painting one time at a mall, and I had a man 339 00:19:58,743 --> 00:20:01,898 come along, and he says, you know, I've been to that location. 340 00:20:01,948 --> 00:20:04,060 He says, except it had a little pond right here. 341 00:20:04,110 --> 00:20:07,265 He says, if it had a little pond there, I'd buy that painting from you. 342 00:20:07,315 --> 00:20:09,876 So I told him, I said, you start writing the check, and 343 00:20:09,900 --> 00:20:12,532 by the time the check's done, you'll have a little pond. 344 00:20:12,582 --> 00:20:15,216 So watch right here, let's see what happens. 345 00:20:15,266 --> 00:20:21,242 All you do is take this almighty brush and pull down. 346 00:20:21,292 --> 00:20:24,387 And we'll create a little pond right there. 347 00:20:24,437 --> 00:20:26,151 It's that easy. 348 00:20:27,583 --> 00:20:28,954 There we go. 349 00:20:32,070 --> 00:20:34,171 And I'm gonna take a little bit of Prussian 350 00:20:34,195 --> 00:20:36,568 blue just to make this pond a little bit deeper. 351 00:20:36,618 --> 00:20:40,575 I wanna have enough room for the trout to live in here. 352 00:20:40,625 --> 00:20:43,482 Just a little bit deeper. 353 00:20:43,938 --> 00:20:46,851 This is one thing that's so fantastic about this style of painting. 354 00:20:46,901 --> 00:20:50,697 Right in midstream, you can change your mind, you can 355 00:20:50,721 --> 00:20:54,901 completely, completely change a painting in just a second. 356 00:20:55,030 --> 00:20:59,425 And here I'm just pulling across to make it look like water. 357 00:20:59,475 --> 00:21:01,327 Isn't that something? 358 00:21:01,377 --> 00:21:05,138 Now, we'll take just a tiny bit of the magic 359 00:21:05,162 --> 00:21:09,377 white, and we'll put a little water line in here. 360 00:21:12,811 --> 00:21:17,849 There, just act like you're trying to cut a hole right through the canvas. 361 00:21:17,899 --> 00:21:21,653 And let's take, and I sort of wiped out a couple of 362 00:21:21,677 --> 00:21:25,899 these little bushes here, so let's just put them back in. 363 00:21:27,855 --> 00:21:33,093 Maybe on each side there we have some nice little bushes. 364 00:21:33,143 --> 00:21:36,639 Okay, now, I'm gonna add just a tiny bit 365 00:21:36,689 --> 00:21:40,508 of the Van Dyke brown and the burnt umber to this 366 00:21:40,532 --> 00:21:44,689 magic white to make it, it's a very, very thin paint. 367 00:21:44,943 --> 00:21:48,346 And with that, we just take and pull down here a 368 00:21:48,370 --> 00:21:51,725 little bit and make us a nice little bank here. 369 00:21:51,775 --> 00:21:56,213 Just some ground for the bushes and trees here to sit on. 370 00:21:56,263 --> 00:22:00,280 Don't want them to fall off in the water and make a big splash. 371 00:22:00,330 --> 00:22:06,044 That'd disturb that old trout that lives in there. 372 00:22:06,136 --> 00:22:09,810 Now, maybe highlight it with just a tiny bit of white. 373 00:22:09,860 --> 00:22:12,588 And this is a very, very gentle touch, just 374 00:22:12,612 --> 00:22:15,557 enough to get the paint to come off the knife. 375 00:22:15,607 --> 00:22:19,547 There we go. 376 00:22:19,571 --> 00:22:21,464 Isn't that something? 377 00:22:21,514 --> 00:22:25,320 Now, with just a little touch more magic white, 378 00:22:25,344 --> 00:22:29,092 we'll put a little water line right into here. 379 00:22:29,142 --> 00:22:30,513 There it is. 380 00:22:31,725 --> 00:22:35,039 Just enough to separate this. 381 00:22:39,903 --> 00:22:43,557 A few more little sticks here and there. 382 00:22:43,607 --> 00:22:45,892 Just to break it up. 383 00:22:47,732 --> 00:22:51,807 Maybe there's some little grassy things that sort of work down onto the bank here. 384 00:22:51,857 --> 00:22:52,494 Just here and there. 385 00:22:52,518 --> 00:22:54,611 Over here more to be some. 386 00:22:54,661 --> 00:22:56,973 Now, what happens if you change your mind again? 387 00:22:57,023 --> 00:22:58,395 Son of a gun. 388 00:22:58,445 --> 00:23:00,458 Let's change it again. 389 00:23:00,508 --> 00:23:03,956 I'm gonna take the big brush and go right 390 00:23:03,980 --> 00:23:07,706 back into this dark color and begin pushing. 391 00:23:07,756 --> 00:23:08,756 Like so. 392 00:23:09,670 --> 00:23:13,746 And we'll just add another plane to this painting and make it even deeper. 393 00:23:13,796 --> 00:23:15,088 Just push this dark in there. 394 00:23:15,138 --> 00:23:20,435 Once again, we need the dark in order to show the light. 395 00:23:20,485 --> 00:23:22,918 Okay, now we got our dark in there. 396 00:23:22,968 --> 00:23:25,382 Now we can highlight it. 397 00:23:25,432 --> 00:23:27,712 Little more of the thin white here so we can 398 00:23:27,736 --> 00:23:29,988 thin this down and it sticks nice and easy. 399 00:23:30,038 --> 00:23:35,015 We use a little yellow ochre mixed with a little cad yellow. 400 00:23:35,065 --> 00:23:36,377 And mix it on your brush. 401 00:23:36,427 --> 00:23:40,215 That way you get a multitude of things that happen. 402 00:23:40,265 --> 00:23:41,522 Maybe a little of the permanent red. 403 00:23:41,546 --> 00:23:46,040 Let's put, ooh, there's a little fireball. 404 00:23:46,090 --> 00:23:48,147 That's a nice one. 405 00:23:49,073 --> 00:23:51,806 And right on down through like so. 406 00:23:51,856 --> 00:23:56,810 And just let these flow with the lay of the land. 407 00:23:56,860 --> 00:24:00,854 And put all kind of little, look at all those little grassy things. 408 00:24:00,904 --> 00:24:02,504 There they go. 409 00:24:03,326 --> 00:24:04,811 Just as easy. 410 00:24:08,391 --> 00:24:09,029 Okay. 411 00:24:09,053 --> 00:24:13,833 Now, we'll just cut a few little sticks here and there. 412 00:24:13,883 --> 00:24:15,368 There we are. 413 00:24:16,769 --> 00:24:18,863 You know, one of the hardest things to do when 414 00:24:18,887 --> 00:24:21,328 you're painting is to know when in the world to stop. 415 00:24:21,378 --> 00:24:26,158 It's such a temptation just to add one more stick or one more tree. 416 00:24:26,208 --> 00:24:31,700 And there comes a time when you have to stop or you piddle it to death. 417 00:24:31,750 --> 00:24:33,803 I think we're gonna stop on that one. 418 00:24:33,853 --> 00:24:35,091 Show you how to sign a painting. 419 00:24:35,115 --> 00:24:38,069 This is something that gives people a lot of trouble. 420 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:41,814 And I'm gonna dip, this is a number two script liner. 421 00:24:41,864 --> 00:24:44,758 And I'm gonna dip it into a little bit of thin oil. 422 00:24:44,808 --> 00:24:50,325 And then use the liner brush and make the paint so it's like water. 423 00:24:50,375 --> 00:24:51,153 Very, very thin. 424 00:24:51,177 --> 00:24:53,089 Then it'll flow right on top of there. 425 00:24:53,139 --> 00:24:55,473 And turn this brush, twist it. 426 00:24:55,523 --> 00:24:59,939 That brings it to a nice, firm, sharp point. 427 00:24:59,989 --> 00:25:00,989 Okay. 428 00:25:02,007 --> 00:25:05,435 Now, let's sign it right here. 429 00:25:05,754 --> 00:25:09,544 And all we do is touch, and just let this 430 00:25:09,568 --> 00:25:13,754 paint flow right off this little liner brush. 431 00:25:14,029 --> 00:25:16,229 There we go. 432 00:25:16,253 --> 00:25:20,309 And luckily I have a very simple name, it's easy to 433 00:25:20,333 --> 00:25:24,253 spell, it only takes a second to sign a painting. 434 00:25:24,468 --> 00:25:27,340 Now next week, I hope you have your canvas on 435 00:25:27,364 --> 00:25:30,325 your easel and you're all ready to go with us. 436 00:25:30,375 --> 00:25:32,367 And we'll be doing a white canvas next week. 437 00:25:32,417 --> 00:25:35,010 During the series, we're gonna do numerous different things. 438 00:25:35,060 --> 00:25:38,755 There'll be several paintings that we do on a black canvas. 439 00:25:38,805 --> 00:25:40,937 There'll be some that you won't believe. 440 00:25:40,987 --> 00:25:44,462 But next week, have a white canvas ready, you have 441 00:25:44,486 --> 00:25:47,705 the colors, and we'll be looking for you here. 442 00:25:47,755 --> 00:25:51,694 And until then, from all of us here, we'd like to wish 443 00:25:51,718 --> 00:25:55,755 each and every one of you happy painting and God bless. 444 00:25:56,305 --> 00:26:56,478