"The Joy of Painting" Black River

1 00:00:01,060 --> 00:00:02,171 Welcome back. 2 00:00:02,221 --> 00:00:04,195 You know, we've had so many cards and letters 3 00:00:04,219 --> 00:00:05,995 requesting more of these black canvases. 4 00:00:06,045 --> 00:00:08,258 Today I thought I'd do something a little crazy. 5 00:00:08,308 --> 00:00:10,260 It's one of those funny little moods. 6 00:00:10,310 --> 00:00:12,401 So I've taken the liberty of going ahead and 7 00:00:12,425 --> 00:00:14,444 covering the canvas with different colors. 8 00:00:14,494 --> 00:00:16,787 And let's go over the colors that we used. 9 00:00:16,837 --> 00:00:20,722 I've taken here an alizarin crimson in about a half circle, 10 00:00:20,746 --> 00:00:24,655 and the whole bottom of the canvas is covered with crimson. 11 00:00:24,705 --> 00:00:27,358 The top is Prussian blue. 12 00:00:27,408 --> 00:00:29,580 And then we've blended all of this together. 13 00:00:29,630 --> 00:00:33,625 Now when you're preparing these black canvases at home, be sure it's a flat 14 00:00:33,649 --> 00:00:37,507 black that you use and allow it to dry completely before you start this. 15 00:00:37,557 --> 00:00:38,928 So let's go. 16 00:00:39,079 --> 00:00:44,534 We'll take a fan brush here and I'm gonna start with a little bit of titanium white. 17 00:00:44,584 --> 00:00:45,875 And let's just play a little. 18 00:00:45,925 --> 00:00:48,738 Let's just have a little fun. 19 00:00:48,788 --> 00:00:52,623 And we'll start right up in here and we're just gonna begin 20 00:00:52,647 --> 00:00:56,245 touching this canvas and letting this just play around. 21 00:00:56,295 --> 00:00:59,330 You can see how it's picking up the crimson underneath. 22 00:00:59,380 --> 00:01:01,094 Just let it go. 23 00:01:02,225 --> 00:01:04,510 Just move the brush. 24 00:01:04,729 --> 00:01:09,643 Just little indications all over the place. 25 00:01:09,777 --> 00:01:15,457 And we'll make some happy little things in the sky here. 26 00:01:15,507 --> 00:01:16,507 There. 27 00:01:17,670 --> 00:01:19,612 Just let it play. 28 00:01:20,515 --> 00:01:27,715 But now you can see how it's picking up the blue color up here. 29 00:01:29,435 --> 00:01:32,069 Maybe we'll put a little bit over in this direction. 30 00:01:32,119 --> 00:01:33,490 There we go. 31 00:01:34,361 --> 00:01:36,955 Don't get it too bright. 32 00:01:37,005 --> 00:01:40,285 Okay, now we'll take the large brush and we'll begin 33 00:01:40,309 --> 00:01:43,423 blending all this together, and just very gently. 34 00:01:43,473 --> 00:01:47,130 Just begin bringing it together. 35 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:54,318 And this should create beautiful little clouds, little sunset type. 36 00:01:54,368 --> 00:01:59,102 Just turn the brush, keep it moving, circles, always in circles. 37 00:01:59,152 --> 00:02:00,523 There we go. 38 00:02:04,919 --> 00:02:05,919 Alright. 39 00:02:06,421 --> 00:02:11,221 And then we'll just blend it all together. 40 00:02:13,390 --> 00:02:18,306 Isn't that unreal, what these black canvases do? 41 00:02:18,356 --> 00:02:23,891 And that quickly, we've made a beautiful little sunset sky. 42 00:02:23,941 --> 00:02:26,504 And when you're at home, let your imagination go crazy 43 00:02:26,528 --> 00:02:29,258 and use these black canvases to do a multitude of things. 44 00:02:29,308 --> 00:02:33,284 The only prerequisite is that the color that you apply here be a transparent color, 45 00:02:33,308 --> 00:02:37,308 so that when you put the lighter color on, it picks up and just boom, out it comes. 46 00:02:40,544 --> 00:02:41,686 All right. 47 00:02:42,546 --> 00:02:47,744 Thought maybe today we'd do, let's do a lazy little river. 48 00:02:47,794 --> 00:02:48,794 Okay. 49 00:02:51,198 --> 00:02:54,055 Clean the old brush here. 50 00:02:55,227 --> 00:02:56,598 That is fun. 51 00:02:57,170 --> 00:03:00,320 Alright, let's take a one inch brush and we'll 52 00:03:00,344 --> 00:03:03,449 use some alizarin crimson and van dyke brown. 53 00:03:03,499 --> 00:03:05,412 Just mix them on the brush. 54 00:03:05,462 --> 00:03:07,616 Load a lot of paint into your bristles. 55 00:03:07,666 --> 00:03:09,380 A lot of paint. 56 00:03:09,549 --> 00:03:12,850 And we'll begin applying some paint here and 57 00:03:12,874 --> 00:03:16,048 make general little tree shapes and stuff. 58 00:03:16,098 --> 00:03:19,058 And we don't want to cover up all this 59 00:03:19,082 --> 00:03:22,538 beautiful little sky that we've put in here. 60 00:03:22,588 --> 00:03:25,216 Leave it loose and airy 61 00:03:29,483 --> 00:03:34,880 Man, maybe there's a happy little tree that lives right here. 62 00:03:34,930 --> 00:03:37,864 I know at home you may be having a hard time seeing what I'm doing here. 63 00:03:37,914 --> 00:03:40,448 All we're doing is putting on some base color. 64 00:03:40,498 --> 00:03:43,331 The brown and the crimson mixed together. 65 00:03:43,381 --> 00:03:48,919 Oh, maybe we'll have some big trees over here in the corner. 66 00:03:48,969 --> 00:03:50,340 There we go. 67 00:03:53,995 --> 00:03:54,995 Alright. 68 00:03:55,457 --> 00:03:56,749 We were using almighty brushes. 69 00:03:56,799 --> 00:04:02,056 It only takes a few minutes to cover a canvas. 70 00:04:04,718 --> 00:04:08,113 Okay, that gives us something to start with. 71 00:04:08,163 --> 00:04:11,277 Now we'll take, let's build some happy little reflections in here. 72 00:04:11,327 --> 00:04:14,882 I'm gonna take just a little tiny bit of cad yellow on the large brush. 73 00:04:14,932 --> 00:04:16,865 Just a small, small amount. 74 00:04:16,915 --> 00:04:20,290 It's easy to add more color, but it's a son of a gun to take it away. 75 00:04:20,340 --> 00:04:23,311 Touch, pull straight down. 76 00:04:25,407 --> 00:04:27,079 Touch, pull down. 77 00:04:27,129 --> 00:04:30,965 I see a yellow is mixing with a crimson that's underneath. 78 00:04:31,015 --> 00:04:35,027 And make some beautiful little colors. 79 00:04:35,077 --> 00:04:36,562 Look at that. 80 00:04:38,842 --> 00:04:41,927 Just pull it straight down. 81 00:04:44,550 --> 00:04:48,526 And this is our light source, so right under 82 00:04:48,550 --> 00:04:52,550 that we want it to be a little bit brighter. 83 00:04:53,201 --> 00:04:54,572 There we go. 84 00:04:56,238 --> 00:04:59,438 Now, very gently, go across. 85 00:04:59,826 --> 00:05:01,840 Just enough to give it a water effect. 86 00:05:01,890 --> 00:05:03,985 And since this is wet on wet, you can move things. 87 00:05:04,035 --> 00:05:06,777 You can push that paint. 88 00:05:09,146 --> 00:05:13,260 You can make these reflections bend. 89 00:05:14,758 --> 00:05:15,637 Okay. 90 00:05:15,661 --> 00:05:18,996 Now, let's begin highlighting some of these. 91 00:05:19,046 --> 00:05:24,284 Now in reality, if you had a sky like this, you would have nothing but silhouettes. 92 00:05:24,334 --> 00:05:28,470 But when you buy your first tube of paint, you're issued an artist's license. 93 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:32,697 And an artist's license says you can do anything you want to do. 94 00:05:32,747 --> 00:05:35,080 So that's what we're gonna do. 95 00:05:35,130 --> 00:05:38,919 I'm gonna take a fan brush with a little bit of Van 96 00:05:38,943 --> 00:05:43,130 Dyke brown and burnt umber, just mixed on the fan brush. 97 00:05:45,023 --> 00:05:47,315 And we'll put a few little trunks here and there. 98 00:05:47,365 --> 00:05:51,420 And all we're gonna do is touch and pull. 99 00:05:51,470 --> 00:05:54,365 If you wanted to highlight those all in one stroke, 100 00:05:54,389 --> 00:05:57,366 add a little bit of yellow on one side of the brush. 101 00:05:57,416 --> 00:05:58,867 Just a tiny bit. 102 00:05:58,917 --> 00:06:03,252 And when you push, you'll automatically get the highlights. 103 00:06:03,302 --> 00:06:06,795 Let's go back and highlight this one a little. 104 00:06:06,845 --> 00:06:07,845 There. 105 00:06:10,068 --> 00:06:15,668 And maybe, maybe there's a trunk right over here. 106 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:23,611 And let's have some big trunks up through these trees. 107 00:06:25,191 --> 00:06:27,476 Just here and there. 108 00:06:31,500 --> 00:06:32,871 There we go. 109 00:06:33,523 --> 00:06:35,042 Okay. 110 00:06:35,066 --> 00:06:38,904 Now, I'm gonna take a tiny little bit of magic white, just to thin the 111 00:06:38,928 --> 00:06:43,066 paint a small amount, and I'm gonna go into a little bit of the cad yellow. 112 00:06:43,798 --> 00:06:47,455 Maybe a little more magic white. 113 00:06:48,355 --> 00:06:51,508 Thin paint will stick to a thick paint. 114 00:06:51,558 --> 00:06:55,612 And we'll go into some permanent red, and back to the yellow. 115 00:06:55,662 --> 00:06:57,798 We'll make some bright little colors here, 116 00:06:57,822 --> 00:07:00,136 so they really stand out on your set at home. 117 00:07:00,186 --> 00:07:07,363 And let's go up here and push in just thousands of little leaves. 118 00:07:07,413 --> 00:07:08,413 There. 119 00:07:11,337 --> 00:07:17,060 Now the colors we've used underneath, the alizarin, 120 00:07:17,110 --> 00:07:18,862 mixes with the yellow and doesn't destroy. 121 00:07:18,912 --> 00:07:24,397 You don't have to wash your brush quite so much. 122 00:07:24,861 --> 00:07:30,118 Let's go into a little bit of the umber color. 123 00:07:31,069 --> 00:07:37,228 There, a little bit of the umber mixed with yellow, just to dull it down a slight bit. 124 00:07:37,278 --> 00:07:41,180 And we'll come back in here, there, and begin putting 125 00:07:41,204 --> 00:07:45,278 little indications of little things all over the place. 126 00:07:45,882 --> 00:07:50,339 Maybe there's a little bit right there. 127 00:07:52,470 --> 00:07:56,051 There we go. 128 00:07:56,075 --> 00:07:59,900 Now, maybe I'm just going back and forth between yellow 129 00:07:59,924 --> 00:08:03,494 and red, ochre, a little bit of umber now and then. 130 00:08:03,544 --> 00:08:11,544 Okay, now maybe there's one that hides right down in here. 131 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:19,074 132 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:28,015 You beginning to see the river yet? 133 00:08:28,065 --> 00:08:31,083 Up the lazy river, down the old... So you got to 134 00:08:31,107 --> 00:08:34,085 get in the mood and sing a little and have fun. 135 00:08:34,135 --> 00:08:40,649 It's a good thing I took up painting rather than singing. 136 00:08:41,007 --> 00:08:43,320 Okay, now let's put a little bit of dirt along here. 137 00:08:43,370 --> 00:08:46,025 Little bit of banks, river banks. 138 00:08:46,075 --> 00:08:52,817 This is the burnt umber with a little van dyke brown in it. 139 00:08:59,204 --> 00:09:02,265 And I'm gonna use a little bit of yellow and 140 00:09:02,289 --> 00:09:05,444 burnt umber mixed together to highlight this. 141 00:09:05,494 --> 00:09:08,122 Yellow and burnt umber. 142 00:09:08,179 --> 00:09:12,215 Don't want it to get too bright, just so it stands out. 143 00:09:12,265 --> 00:09:13,522 Just touch. 144 00:09:13,868 --> 00:09:16,610 Barely, barely touching. 145 00:09:16,712 --> 00:09:22,632 Just enough to allow the paint to pull off your knife. 146 00:09:22,682 --> 00:09:24,053 There we go. 147 00:09:28,685 --> 00:09:30,419 Now, we'll take a little bit of, this is 148 00:09:30,443 --> 00:09:32,552 yellow, it's got a little umber in it, and we'll 149 00:09:32,576 --> 00:09:34,584 just make a little water line under here, just 150 00:09:34,608 --> 00:09:36,685 enough to separate the reflection and the land. 151 00:09:40,641 --> 00:09:43,612 Just let that play around. 152 00:09:46,368 --> 00:09:47,739 There we go. 153 00:09:51,956 --> 00:09:55,637 Okay. 154 00:09:55,661 --> 00:09:58,098 Now, with a fan brush, 155 00:09:58,148 --> 00:10:00,481 I'm just gonna bring all this together here. 156 00:10:00,531 --> 00:10:03,405 Let's add a little touch of green to that. 157 00:10:03,455 --> 00:10:05,188 Just a tiny bit. 158 00:10:05,238 --> 00:10:09,274 And we'll just put a little bit of green working its way down through here. 159 00:10:09,324 --> 00:10:17,324 Just to bring the land and the trees all together here. 160 00:10:20,700 --> 00:10:22,502 Okay, now then. 161 00:10:29,013 --> 00:10:34,955 We'll put a big bank coming right down through here. 162 00:10:37,003 --> 00:10:38,255 Just like so. 163 00:10:38,305 --> 00:10:42,310 Once again, this may be very hard for you to see when you set it home, 164 00:10:42,334 --> 00:10:46,305 but I'm just putting a little Van Dyke brown and umber right in here. 165 00:10:46,616 --> 00:10:51,301 Just to give us a nice base to work with. 166 00:10:54,226 --> 00:10:55,423 Okay. 167 00:10:55,447 --> 00:11:00,589 Little bit of water line underneath this one. 168 00:11:01,025 --> 00:11:08,796 Now then, let's take the large brush and pull it through some color. 169 00:11:11,558 --> 00:11:12,929 There we go. 170 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:15,107 I want to add a tiny, tiny little bit of magic 171 00:11:15,131 --> 00:11:17,054 white to that, just to thin it a little bit. 172 00:11:17,104 --> 00:11:18,104 There. 173 00:11:21,289 --> 00:11:23,482 Little more permanent red. 174 00:11:23,532 --> 00:11:26,626 Load a lot of paint into the bristles here. 175 00:11:26,676 --> 00:11:31,046 And let's put some nice, airy, loose little leaves just up in here. 176 00:11:31,096 --> 00:11:34,524 Just very quiet little things. 177 00:11:34,681 --> 00:11:38,416 Don't wanna get them too many, just a few. 178 00:11:38,466 --> 00:11:45,905 Just where the light's running through here and playing and having fun. 179 00:11:45,955 --> 00:11:47,897 Ah, look at that. 180 00:11:52,243 --> 00:11:53,241 There we go. 181 00:11:53,265 --> 00:11:56,159 And it's important that you leave a lot of dark in these paintings. 182 00:11:56,209 --> 00:12:00,894 Tremendous amount of dark should be left. 183 00:12:01,268 --> 00:12:06,806 Add a little sap green to my yellow and red to make a dark color. 184 00:12:06,856 --> 00:12:10,297 I wanna put a little bit of highlight back in here, just at the 185 00:12:10,321 --> 00:12:13,676 bottom of these trees, but I don't want it to be real bright. 186 00:12:13,726 --> 00:12:17,650 Just enough to give the indication that there's 187 00:12:17,674 --> 00:12:21,286 a lot of little things happening back here. 188 00:12:21,336 --> 00:12:25,839 There we go. 189 00:12:25,863 --> 00:12:27,445 Like so. 190 00:12:28,015 --> 00:12:34,232 Let's go back with some crimson and Van Dyke brown mixed on the brush again. 191 00:12:34,282 --> 00:12:37,415 Just mix them together on the brush. 192 00:12:37,465 --> 00:12:39,003 And let's put something over on this side. 193 00:12:39,027 --> 00:12:45,383 Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe there's a nice tree right here. 194 00:12:45,433 --> 00:12:51,833 In your world, you can put trees wherever you want them. 195 00:12:52,401 --> 00:12:57,227 Ooh, I'd love to have my canoe come down this river. 196 00:12:57,277 --> 00:13:01,178 When I'm at home in Alaska, we have a little canoe that we run through all the 197 00:13:01,202 --> 00:13:05,277 little rivers and stuff and take the camera and take pictures of all the animals. 198 00:13:08,030 --> 00:13:11,090 And it's not unusual still in Alaska to come around a bend in 199 00:13:11,114 --> 00:13:14,148 a beautiful little river and see little moose standing here. 200 00:13:14,198 --> 00:13:16,591 Little moose, they're big moose. 201 00:13:16,641 --> 00:13:20,175 Especially when you're in a canoe and they're not. 202 00:13:20,225 --> 00:13:25,779 There, let me just throw a few little trunk indications here and there. 203 00:13:25,829 --> 00:13:33,427 Okay, now, I'll go back into some yellow, a little bit of permanent red. 204 00:13:33,477 --> 00:13:37,752 And we'll put a few little highlights on this tree. 205 00:13:37,802 --> 00:13:42,602 Just where you think a light would strike. 206 00:13:44,729 --> 00:13:47,740 Okay, anytime you want to dull it, put a little bit of green with 207 00:13:47,764 --> 00:13:50,846 it, a little bit of sap green with it, that'll dull it right down. 208 00:13:50,896 --> 00:13:55,462 Because red and green mixed together make brown. 209 00:13:55,512 --> 00:13:59,888 Maybe a couple little bushes up in here. 210 00:13:59,938 --> 00:14:02,232 And then we need some land for that to stand on. 211 00:14:02,282 --> 00:14:06,113 So I'll use a little bit of the Van Dyke brown, 212 00:14:06,137 --> 00:14:09,663 a little umber in it, a little burnt umber. 213 00:14:09,713 --> 00:14:13,368 And we'll just lay some happy little ground in here. 214 00:14:13,418 --> 00:14:14,789 There we go. 215 00:14:17,163 --> 00:14:20,919 And then we can highlight that with the umber and yellow. 216 00:14:20,969 --> 00:14:25,311 Just enough so it stands out a little. 217 00:14:28,486 --> 00:14:30,699 This one over here, I'm gonna strengthen just a little. 218 00:14:30,749 --> 00:14:35,705 It's a little bit weak, so I'm gonna strengthen it. 219 00:14:35,755 --> 00:14:35,972 There. 220 00:14:35,996 --> 00:14:41,422 A little bit of highlight on it. 221 00:14:48,271 --> 00:14:51,968 Okay, now let's take the same basic colors and let's 222 00:14:51,992 --> 00:14:56,071 just pop a few little reflections down here in the water. 223 00:14:56,121 --> 00:14:58,406 Just here and there. 224 00:15:03,164 --> 00:15:07,421 Maybe right out here on the end, ooh, there's a fireball. 225 00:15:07,471 --> 00:15:10,406 Nice, bright, when the light's striking. 226 00:15:10,456 --> 00:15:14,673 And we'll pop just a little bit of that down into the water. 227 00:15:14,723 --> 00:15:20,803 Now, with a clean, dry brush, I'm gonna very gently pull downward. 228 00:15:20,853 --> 00:15:22,338 Just like so. 229 00:15:22,436 --> 00:15:24,816 And then come across. 230 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:27,775 Just enough to give it a nice watery effect. 231 00:15:27,825 --> 00:15:30,738 Create a little reflection in the water. 232 00:15:30,788 --> 00:15:38,268 Okay, now let's take the fan brush, a little more of the sap green. 233 00:15:38,318 --> 00:15:39,318 There. 234 00:15:40,841 --> 00:15:45,176 And we'll bring all this together with some nice little grassy areas here. 235 00:15:45,226 --> 00:15:50,140 Just touch, make the fan brush bend upward. 236 00:15:53,256 --> 00:15:54,627 There we go. 237 00:15:58,223 --> 00:16:02,717 And maybe a little bit into the reflection. 238 00:16:02,767 --> 00:16:06,743 As I say, I've done thousands of these black canvases, and they never stop 239 00:16:06,767 --> 00:16:10,767 to amaze me, some of the beautiful effects that you can achieve with them. 240 00:16:11,355 --> 00:16:13,967 And we'll turn that into part of the reflections. 241 00:16:14,017 --> 00:16:15,388 Come across. 242 00:16:18,281 --> 00:16:22,257 Alright, now we'll take the knife here, and let's 243 00:16:22,281 --> 00:16:26,281 put a little water line underneath this one here. 244 00:16:29,371 --> 00:16:30,856 Just like so. 245 00:16:34,728 --> 00:16:36,670 That's something. 246 00:16:37,992 --> 00:16:40,130 Okay. 247 00:16:40,154 --> 00:16:43,908 Now with a clean knife, I'm just gonna scratch a few little sticks here and there. 248 00:16:43,958 --> 00:16:47,272 Just some little indications. 249 00:16:54,549 --> 00:16:57,362 Okay, let's put a few little sticks all over the place. 250 00:16:57,412 --> 00:17:01,310 These little sticks help create depth because each 251 00:17:01,334 --> 00:17:05,412 group of them show different planes in the painting. 252 00:17:12,781 --> 00:17:20,001 Let's bring this land area right here together, just using the fan brush. 253 00:17:20,051 --> 00:17:26,509 You can also do this with your one inch brush or the two and a half inch brush. 254 00:17:26,559 --> 00:17:27,930 There we go. 255 00:17:29,523 --> 00:17:34,339 Okay, now maybe, maybe we need a little path in this picture. 256 00:17:34,389 --> 00:17:36,626 Let's put a happy little path. 257 00:17:36,676 --> 00:17:41,317 You can walk around here and find that big trout that lives out here in the river. 258 00:17:41,367 --> 00:17:44,966 So I'll use Van Dyke brown and figure out where you want your path to go. 259 00:17:45,016 --> 00:17:50,079 And I'm just gonna do him like this, just back and forth, back and forth. 260 00:17:50,129 --> 00:17:52,625 And just let him start working forward. 261 00:17:52,675 --> 00:17:59,189 Just so we have a general idea of where we're going here. 262 00:18:02,545 --> 00:18:04,897 There's a little hill, a little bank right here. 263 00:18:04,947 --> 00:18:09,401 So we'll take the fan brush, little bit of green, yellow, red, all mixed together. 264 00:18:09,451 --> 00:18:12,902 Just mix the colors on your brush so you've got an 265 00:18:12,926 --> 00:18:16,888 absolute, I don't know what it is, it's just every color. 266 00:18:16,938 --> 00:18:21,873 And let's begin putting some little grassy areas in here. 267 00:18:21,923 --> 00:18:23,615 Oh, look at that. 268 00:18:23,665 --> 00:18:26,257 Let them climb right up the hill, follow the lay of the land. 269 00:18:26,307 --> 00:18:34,307 I know you're tired of hearing me say that by now, but it's most, most important. 270 00:18:36,599 --> 00:18:41,476 And keep it quite dark, don't let it get too bright on you. 271 00:18:41,526 --> 00:18:44,801 Okay, now maybe there's a couple of happy little bushes 272 00:18:44,825 --> 00:18:47,825 and trees that live right along in here somewhere. 273 00:18:47,875 --> 00:18:49,246 There he is. 274 00:18:50,478 --> 00:18:54,820 Right there, just a happy little bush. 275 00:18:57,368 --> 00:19:01,558 And maybe there's another one right here. 276 00:19:01,608 --> 00:19:05,583 And these protrude up a little higher, so they'll catch a little more light. 277 00:19:05,633 --> 00:19:09,404 They'll be a little bit brighter. 278 00:19:11,581 --> 00:19:15,742 There. 279 00:19:15,766 --> 00:19:22,164 Okay, and with a fan brush, we can bring this all back together again. 280 00:19:22,214 --> 00:19:24,487 Okay, let's use a little bit of the umber. 281 00:19:24,537 --> 00:19:26,533 This is burnt umber. 282 00:19:26,583 --> 00:19:29,016 And just put a little bit of highlight on our path. 283 00:19:29,066 --> 00:19:31,058 Just let it play and have fun. 284 00:19:31,108 --> 00:19:36,384 Back and forth, barely, barely, barely touching the canvas. 285 00:19:36,434 --> 00:19:39,708 Just to create the illusion of a nice little path. 286 00:19:39,758 --> 00:19:43,245 And don't worry about these edges, we'll 287 00:19:43,269 --> 00:19:47,658 straighten those up in a second when we highlight. 288 00:19:47,708 --> 00:19:53,484 Now, back to the fan brush and let's bring all this together. 289 00:19:53,534 --> 00:19:57,305 Let's start bringing it together. 290 00:19:58,696 --> 00:20:02,599 You know, if you've just been exposed to this for the first time and you've tried 291 00:20:02,623 --> 00:20:06,696 it at home, I bet you never believed you could do such fantastic paintings yourself. 292 00:20:07,250 --> 00:20:10,541 Every day we hear from people that say, my God, I've 293 00:20:10,565 --> 00:20:14,072 never painted in my life and I tried this and it works. 294 00:20:14,122 --> 00:20:15,950 It really works. 295 00:20:19,872 --> 00:20:24,557 There we go, just bringing that together. 296 00:20:25,932 --> 00:20:29,953 Okay, and maybe over in here we'll bring this 297 00:20:29,977 --> 00:20:33,932 right on down, just like a nice little hill. 298 00:20:36,244 --> 00:20:42,072 And we've got an old path going back through there. 299 00:20:42,452 --> 00:20:45,766 There, just let it disappear. 300 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:52,360 Okay. 301 00:20:52,384 --> 00:20:53,984 There it goes. 302 00:20:59,311 --> 00:21:02,511 To begin to create our path. 303 00:21:05,959 --> 00:21:09,765 Let's take a little bit of the magic white, a 304 00:21:09,789 --> 00:21:13,959 little bit of yellow, yellow ochre mixed in here. 305 00:21:15,090 --> 00:21:17,844 Let's put a happy little bush that lives right here. 306 00:21:17,894 --> 00:21:19,045 This does several things. 307 00:21:19,095 --> 00:21:21,359 It creates more depth, but more important, it closes the 308 00:21:21,383 --> 00:21:23,631 end of the path, so we really don't know where it goes. 309 00:21:23,681 --> 00:21:26,835 It just goes right on off into the woods here somewhere. 310 00:21:26,885 --> 00:21:29,856 Just sort of closes it up. 311 00:21:31,238 --> 00:21:33,590 There's a nice little bush. 312 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:35,620 You know, one thing I would like to mention 313 00:21:35,644 --> 00:21:37,694 while we have just a couple of minutes here. 314 00:21:37,744 --> 00:21:40,717 The only way we know what to paint is if you let us know. 315 00:21:40,767 --> 00:21:44,258 So, drop me a line here and you can address it 316 00:21:44,282 --> 00:21:47,644 in care of me here at WIPB, Muncie, Indiana. 317 00:21:47,694 --> 00:21:50,006 And they do forward all the mail to me. 318 00:21:50,056 --> 00:21:52,054 And I'd like to know what you want on the next show. 319 00:21:52,078 --> 00:21:56,653 That way we can start producing paintings and I have to practice a little bit. 320 00:21:56,703 --> 00:22:00,100 And we'll get them ready for you so the next time we have a series here, we 321 00:22:00,124 --> 00:22:03,682 can do the type of paintings that you want to see and want to learn how to do. 322 00:22:03,732 --> 00:22:07,366 But we need for you to let us know. 323 00:22:07,416 --> 00:22:13,816 Okay, we'll put a few more little sticks here and there. 324 00:22:17,409 --> 00:22:19,842 There we go, just drop them in. 325 00:22:19,892 --> 00:22:22,837 And all you're doing is scratching through the 326 00:22:22,861 --> 00:22:26,218 paint and allowing the black canvas to show through. 327 00:22:26,268 --> 00:22:29,125 Just every so often here. 328 00:22:30,574 --> 00:22:34,785 Okay, maybe, maybe there's a happy little stone that's 329 00:22:34,809 --> 00:22:38,574 right here, so we just take some Van Dyke brown. 330 00:22:40,208 --> 00:22:42,722 And just lay in a basic little stone shape. 331 00:22:42,772 --> 00:22:47,629 And we can take some umber, burnt umber, and a little bit of the yellow. 332 00:22:47,679 --> 00:22:54,307 Makes a very nice highlight color on these dark paintings. 333 00:22:54,770 --> 00:22:58,847 And don't mix it dead, just mix it so it's marble-y, as Bill calls it. 334 00:22:58,897 --> 00:23:00,497 Just marble-y. 335 00:23:01,842 --> 00:23:02,842 There. 336 00:23:03,384 --> 00:23:04,641 Now, touch. 337 00:23:05,348 --> 00:23:10,266 Just let the knife wander down the side of your little stone here. 338 00:23:10,316 --> 00:23:12,810 Create some little highlights. 339 00:23:12,860 --> 00:23:15,735 These are just like doing small mountains. 340 00:23:15,785 --> 00:23:23,785 And with tender, loving care, they'll grow up and be almighty mountains. 341 00:23:25,550 --> 00:23:30,605 Little bit of highlight right up here on the top, just sort of bring that together. 342 00:23:30,655 --> 00:23:34,409 Now we need to take and put the rock into the painting. 343 00:23:34,459 --> 00:23:38,331 Right now it sort of floats above everything, so with a fan brush here, I'm 344 00:23:38,355 --> 00:23:42,459 just gonna add a little color underneath, just so we sort of bring it together. 345 00:23:43,268 --> 00:23:48,068 Just let it flow right together like that. 346 00:23:51,696 --> 00:23:53,067 There we go. 347 00:23:54,338 --> 00:23:57,433 A few little sticks and twigs and stuff like that in here. 348 00:23:57,483 --> 00:23:59,702 And when you're doing this at home, you have unlimited time. 349 00:23:59,726 --> 00:24:05,705 You could put all kind of little details in here and just do fantastic things. 350 00:24:05,755 --> 00:24:07,469 Let's see here. 351 00:24:09,300 --> 00:24:13,183 Wanna brighten that water line right there 352 00:24:13,207 --> 00:24:17,300 so it stands out just a tiny, tiny bit more. 353 00:24:17,930 --> 00:24:20,789 You can also wait till these paintings dry and 354 00:24:20,813 --> 00:24:23,885 go back and add very nice little details into it. 355 00:24:23,935 --> 00:24:25,827 You don't have to do everything while it's wet. 356 00:24:25,877 --> 00:24:27,769 You can allow it to dry and go back. 357 00:24:27,819 --> 00:24:30,318 A lot of times in still lifes and stuff you want to 358 00:24:30,342 --> 00:24:33,014 put like little dew drops on the leaves and et cetera. 359 00:24:33,064 --> 00:24:35,702 It's really better to allow the painting to dry 360 00:24:35,726 --> 00:24:38,218 and then you go back and put your dew drops. 361 00:24:38,268 --> 00:24:40,079 If you wanted to put a nice little deer or 362 00:24:40,103 --> 00:24:42,244 something in here, what I recommend is you scrape 363 00:24:42,268 --> 00:24:44,134 out the basic shape, remove this wet, loose 364 00:24:44,158 --> 00:24:46,268 paint, allow the painting to get just about dry. 365 00:24:47,917 --> 00:24:49,859 And then go back and paint your little deer in 366 00:24:49,883 --> 00:24:51,891 and you don't pick up all the underneath color. 367 00:24:51,941 --> 00:24:53,693 And it really works better that way. 368 00:24:53,743 --> 00:24:56,916 And this would be a super painting to put a little deer in. 369 00:24:56,966 --> 00:24:57,966 Okay. 370 00:24:59,168 --> 00:25:01,745 I think this painting's getting close enough to the 371 00:25:01,769 --> 00:25:04,524 end here that we can start worrying about a signature. 372 00:25:04,574 --> 00:25:06,165 And I'll dip into some thin oil here. 373 00:25:06,215 --> 00:25:11,929 And just work your paint until it gets like water. 374 00:25:12,442 --> 00:25:13,653 Just like water. 375 00:25:13,703 --> 00:25:15,988 And turn that brush. 376 00:25:16,786 --> 00:25:18,500 Really turn it. 377 00:25:21,177 --> 00:25:25,853 And bring it to a very, very nice sharp, sharp point. 378 00:25:25,903 --> 00:25:28,756 Turn it, bring it to a point. 379 00:25:28,806 --> 00:25:31,900 And then decide where you want your signature. 380 00:25:31,950 --> 00:25:37,186 You know, so often we get questions like, how do I sign my painting? 381 00:25:37,236 --> 00:25:41,552 That's as varied as there are, as artists are. 382 00:25:41,602 --> 00:25:44,996 You sign it in a way that's unique to you. 383 00:25:45,046 --> 00:25:49,160 That becomes part of your trademark. 384 00:25:49,912 --> 00:25:50,431 Okay. 385 00:25:50,455 --> 00:25:53,782 So that one's signed, I think we'll call it finished. 386 00:25:53,832 --> 00:26:01,832 On behalf of all of us here at the station, happy painting and have a super day. 387 00:26:02,305 --> 00:27:02,206