- hi, welcome back. certainly glad you could joinus today, it's a fantastic day here and i hope itis wherever you're at. so i tell you what, let'sstart right on it today. let's have them run all thecolors across the screen, they'll come out right about there, that you need to paint along with us. while they're doing that, let me show you what i've got done already.
today i have my standard old canvas up. i'm using 18 by 24 inch,but you use whatever size is convenient, andi've covered the entire canvas with a very thincoat of liquid white. so it's all wet and ready to go. tell you what, let's do alittle winter scene today. something that's cold, (exhales noisily) make you have to put your coat on. we'll start out with alittle two inch brush.
(chuckles softly) and a little bit of prussian blue, little prussian blue. let's go right up in here. we'll just start right at the top making little x's, little criss-cross strokes. there we go, just littlex's, there a little more of the color, we start at the top of the canvas making our little criss-cross strokes and work downward.
that way, it's continually mixing with the liquid white that's on the canvas. as you work down in, this direction, then it gets lighter and lighter in value. automatically, you don'thave to do a thing. and that's exactly what we're looking for when we paint a landscape. we want it to get lightertoward the horizon. all right, something about like 'at.
and we can just take a littleblue and put down here. i want to paint some snow today. so anything we put down here, it'll just end up being shadows in the snow. we don't even care, don't even care. alright, if you've painted with me before, (chuckling) you know the most fun part of this whole technique is washing the brush. so, let's do that.
we wash our brush withodorless paint thinner. we just shake off theexcess (metal knocking) and then (slapping and chuckling). cover the whole studio. alright, maybe in our world, maybe there's a happy little cloud floating around. so let's make a little cloud. take the two inch brush,i'm just gonna tap it right into a little bitof the titanium white.
and notice we're just tapping the one corner basically, like so. ok? then we go up here and let's just tap in just a basic indication just tap that's all there is to it. something about like that,we don't really care. in our world we can doanything that we want to do. so, if we want a happy little cloud
that easy will just drop one in. alright, let me grab a clean brush. i have several going, now this is a clean two inch brush and i'm justgoing to gently, gently, just stir it up a little bit,something about like 'at. and that easy we got alittle cloud in our world. and we can wash our brush again. actually i'm just looking foran excuse to wash the brush. there, (banging and slapping)alright tell you what,
today, let's make a little mountain. i like mountains, they'rea lot of fun to paint, they give you a lot of practicewith all of the equipment. take some midnight black,some prussian blue, a little alizarin crimson, will mix those together. let's throw some van dyke brownin there too, what the heck. as long as it's dark. ok, now cut off a little roll of paint, see it lives right out thereon the end of the knife.
let's go up in here, yourfirst major decision. there it is. you have to decide where the old mountain lives in your world andwhat his basic shape is. we don't care, mountains grow in all sizes and shapes, it's really up to you. it's really up to you. if you an area wherethere's a lot of mountains, you can just take a look-seeout the window and get an idea.
and if you don't, there'smillions of books that have beautiful, beautiful photographs of mountains from all over the world. and when you're creating your own world, you make a mountain that you like. alright, gonna take the two inch brush grab that paint firmly and pull it, just pull it. we want to remove excess paint and we want
to blend the base of the mountain out so it gets softer and softerdown toward the bottom. something about like that andthat's all we're looking for. alright, let's put somesnow on that mountain. shoot, it's cold (exhales)we need a little bit of snow. pull the paint out asflat as you can get it. cut across, get a little roll of paint. it's most important youhave a little roll of paint. alright, now with no pressure,no pressure whatsoever,
just let it glide right down there. and i'll tell you a little secret. it's much easier to dofast, then it is slow. if you go real slow and timid, you have a tendency toput too much pressure. do it, just see? just do it. that really and truly works better. i don't know why, buteven when we're training
instructors we make them paintvery, very fast sometimes. and when they first start,you wouldn't believe they're nervous as they can be and then all of a sudden they findout that if they paint fast, it works better, then when they go slow. try it, both ways. any way that you can make it work is absolutely perfect, absolutely perfect. there, maybe this oldmountain, shoot maybe just
comes right around like 'at, i don't know. let's take a little white,little bit of the prussian blue, mix it together, justwhite and prussian blue. we're going to make a shadow color, there. that's not too bad, that's better. you just keep on until youget it the way you want it. a little roll of paint, once again. then we can go up in here and we begin picking out these little shadows.
they live right in here, right in here. see, just let 'em go. once again, no pressureon the knife, though. just let it touch thecanvas, just let it touch. it'll pull off what it wants,give you back what's left. there, see just barely let it graze. there, something like that. alright, and you can goback pick up a little white and begin putting in moredetails, you can do this
until you make just a fantastic mountain. practice with mountains,it teaches you how to use the knife, and if you can usethis knife properly, shoot, you can do entire paintingsusing nothing but the knife. yeah, some of the earlier series we did a couple of paintings like that. it's a little bit slowerand it's hard to do in the time frame thatwe have, but you actually can paint the entire paintingusing nothing but the knife.
now, i'm tapping the base, buti'm following those angles. now i'm going to lift upward, still following those same angles. alright, i want this to sort of look like it's rounded a little, sowe'll just do that, tap it. just put it in, there. a little bit over in here. shoot, we're in business, that easy. m'kay.
that wasn't so bad was it? will use that mountain color, oh, a little bit of white with it. whatever we got, it doesn't matter. cause you know, we don't make mistakes, we just have happy accidents. so, anything that happenshere, is wonderful. it's absolutely wonderful. alright, so i'm gonna adda little more blue to that.
oh i like it now. i'm looking for a color just like that, let me wipe off the knife. and we'll take, there's one, not too dirty, 'ole two inch brush. sometimes we avoid these big brushes because there so big, but you know them rascals will do just marvelous things, if you just give 'em a chance.
alright, let's go right up in here. maybe there's a littlefoothill that lives-- where does it live? right there, you decide. i'm using just the corner of the brush. just the corner, it's all you need. and we can sorta pull it downward. just pull downward (tongue click). gotta make those little noises.
alright, maybe comes there. something about like 'at. right along in there, ok. and, you can add just alittle more here and there. to break it up a little bit, see there? that easy, though. we can make the indication, now that's all we're looking for, just an indication of little distant trees live far, far away.
alright, now, fun time. let's put a little snow in here. we'll go back to our two inch brush. i like these lil' two inch brushes, they really do marvelous things. m'kay, loaded full of paint, i'm really putting a lot of paint in it. now, big decision time. where does the snow live in your painting?
just make a decision, it livesright there in our world. right there, just put it in. snow is so easy to paintwhen you use a big brush. looky there, already wehave a whole field of snow. did you ever think paintingthat much snow would be so easy? it is, look at that, i like that. now, let's clear us offa little spot to work. i wanna paint a big tree, you know me, (chuckling) i like 'em big trees.
i'm gonna take black,prussian blue, i get letters sometimes from people,and crimson, get letters from people sometimes say, "ohyou had a beautiful painting there and you put thatmiserable tree in it." you know, once again, painting is such an individual thing,when you're doing yours, if you don't want a bigtree in it, leave it out. it will probably be betterthan mine anyway if we do. but, experiment, take achance once in awhile.
let's take 'ole two inch brush, i'm gonna pull it until it comes to avery sharp, chiseled edge. very sharp, almost shave with it. see how sharp that is? great, let's go up here. ok, bravery test, just touch the canvas. now we're going to take just the corner. tell you what, this tree, itlives right off the canvas it goes right on upinto the sky somewhere.
all the little birds we'veshown on this series, they need a place to sit and this is it. they can hide right up in here. look out over the mountain,just have a wonderful life. there. i like the little birds. we had three or fourdifferent ones this time, i really hope you've enjoyed seeing 'em if you got to see 'em.
alright. i tell you what, shoot that tree went pretty good let's give him a friend. there it is, there he is. just start off, drop him in. sometimes when you're paintingthe hardest thing to do is to make a decision what to do. just haul off and do something. to do nothing is worse.
it's absolutely the worsething you can do, is nothing. do something, do somethingand very quickly, very quickly you learn to work with anything that happens up here. because you know, we don't make mistakes we absolutely don't make mistakes. we have some happyaccidents, they may turn into things we didn't plan 'em to be. but that's alright, art isvery creative, it's very free.
take advantage of that. alright, one more? ok, one more. get him right there, little tree. little baby tree. we have a whole family oftrees here now, whole family. they all live together outhere and have a good time. we'll use a fan brush, i'mgoing to put a little touch, a little touch of liquid white and a
little bit of phthalo blue mixed together. i want the phthalo blue, it's warmer, much warmer blue, than the prussian blue. both sides, loaded. we go up here, now ontohere, i'm just gonna put the indication of a few highlights, i don't want to lose all the dark. but just a few highlights,something like so. just a few, darker, darker, darker
down here toward the base. little tree in the background. let me get a little more paint. ran out of paint, there we go. a little tree in the background, we need a few goodies on him too. darker, darker. over here, just a few little things. and here, alright.
let's grab us a one inch brush,one inch brush (chuckling). let's put us a bush or two in here. alright, bush lives inour world, does now. right there, ok. once again i have several of each brush, so i don't have to spend allmy time washing the brush. studio crew gets a little upset with me when i do because i splash 'em a lot. it's good for 'em.
pull it in one direction,load a lot of color that rounds one corner, see there? now, that rounded cornerto the top, now we go up here and we begin picking out little individual bushes and trees. they live right here in this brush. all you gotta do is just scare 'em out. the liquid white in there, is just to make thepaint a little thinner.
that's the only reasonwe have it in there. just to make the paint a little thinner. a thin paint will stick to a thick paint. but that's the only reason it's there. there we go. and you don't have to push hard. i know sometimes it lookslike we take a running start here and just knockin about 100 bushes. you really don't have to push hard.
if it's properly loaded, you just touch. mkay, i'm gonna make some more snow. get a little white onthe 'ole two inch brush. now, i'm gonna go rightin here and i'm gonna grab this intentionallygrabbing some of that color. see there? i want this color to come out and automatically make our shadows. cause i'm a lazy painter, i look for
easy ways to make things work. there, alright. innit that something? don't be afraid of thistwo inch brush once again. we've painted most ofthis painting with it. and it'll work, it will work for you. practice a little. shoot you know me, i lived in alaska for a dozen years and i love places like this.
i've always dreamed ofhaving a little cabin right under a big mountain like this. big mountain, where i could look out and see all of god's creations. ah, and no place did he havea better day than alaska. oh, god it's gorgeousthere, it is gorgeous. i love it, i miss it. all i'm doing is justblocking in a little color. now, we take a littlewhite, little dark sienna,
maybe a little van dyke too and white. but mix it so it's marbled. by marbled i mean not over-mixed, has a lot of things happening in it. see there all the little doers? now i cut off our little roll of paint. now, we said this wasgonna be a little cabin. so let's put the indication of some little dooders in there like 'at.
now then, i go back across this way, makes somelittle log looking things. that's all there is to it. take a little bit of thevan dyke brown on the knife and we go back and just sorta, just sorta line 'em up a little, like so. that's all, that's all. i'll make a darker brown now for the side. 'cause in my mind, it's not dark enough.
in my mind, not as muchlight would hit over here. that gives us an idea ofhow to make a little cabin. now then, we need... we need some snow on the roof. this reminds me of someplaces that i used to see in oregon and eveninto utah and et cetera. beautiful places there, beautiful. we need a door, gotta be able to get in and out of our little cabin.
our door lives right there, there we are. now we can come back with our knife. do a little cabinectomy, there. go on back to my brushthat has snow on it. this is a snow brush and we'll clean the edges up just a wee bit. alright, got a little brown streak here we just blend that right in. now then, maybe, there it is.
take a little of thedark color, pop it in. maybe he didn't take care of his yard too well in the summer. and i'm real familiarwith that (chuckles). i'm the world's worst yard keeper. i like it a la naturale. that's a way of saying i'm too lazy to go out and maintain it. there, ok.
now, once again, we'llgrab that pull it out. we put a little bush right there. i know what, i know, i know. if we didn't get enough bigtrees it's time for one more. let's do another big tree. use the 'ole two inch brush,pull it back very sharp. chisel edge, very, very sharp. make a big decision, right there. oh, to make a line that fine.
then we can come right in here and begin putting in somehappy little arms on this tree. just some little arms on the tree. now then, notice right here, we're fixin' to get into this white snow. dip the brush into theleast little touch of paint thinner and goback through your color. the paint thinner will thin the paint enough that you can paint over the top
of this thick white thatwas used to make the snow without 'em mixing together, as bad. you're gonna have a little mixing, nothing like you would have if they were both the same consistency. just drop them littlerascals in there, wherever. ok, what the heck, that works (chuckles). you just sorta look atthese things and figure out, figure out where you want to go with 'em.
let you imagination go. a lot of times i'll start a painting and have nothing more in my mind, but the time of day and the time of year. other than that, i don'treally wanna know anything. because i want it to just bea creative thing that happens. a creative happening. we'll coin a new phrasehere, "creative happening". but just let it go, letyour imagination build.
begin just seeing things and the more you practice that, the easier it becomes. little phthalo blue and white,just put a few little... this is a blue sprucei can tell right there. blue spruce. that's enough, that's enough. now, liquid white we go right back through our titanium white and it hasa little phthalo blue in it. load a lot of color in there.
once again, notice how the brush is, held straight up and pulledin one direction, like so. yeah, i'm just gonna throwsome little highlights on here. you know, recently we had areunion for our instructors, there is about 400 instructorsaround the country, we had a little reunionin daytona beach, florida. and i got, oh gosh, itwas over 150 people came and we spent about a weektogether, a solid week. led all them instructors.
and i worked 'em to deathwe painted some new things. there's lulu, she's my gal from mexico. but we showed some newthings and we painted 'ole steve even painted,ah it was fantastic. these were some of the bestpainters in the country. and they just had a, oh they had a wonderful time with us. and we worked 'em to death, there's joe. we worked him too.
but we got everybody there. annette taught some ofher fantastic flowers. we really, we put 'emthrough the mill (chuckles). innit that beautiful? lil' son of a gun canpaint a flower, can't she? she's gonna teach me how one day. and then, do you remember john thamm? john thamm came and he painteda portrait of guess who? yeah, he said it was tooeasy though, because he
said all you had to dowas paint a face and put a steel wool ball on top and you had bob. but, as i say, at theend of it then, all of us got together and we went to the park in new smyrna beach, florida. and we had a free day,we invited the public and they came and theywatched all of our painters, oh wonderful, we're going todo it again next year, i hope. yeah, a lot of fun.
if you happen to be around when we're doing it, please stop by and see us. we'll have a good timetogether and you can meet some of the most wonderfulpeople in the whole country. alright, where'd my littlebrush go with some white on it? just pull it in one directionand get a little color. we'll pop in a little bush right there. there we go, take ourknife, scrape through here and there make astick and a twig that easy.
put these little sticks mainly in the dark areas, mainly in the dark areas. alright, even up here. sorry to jump around, i just see places where there ought a be a stick. and we put one behind the cabin, there. somebody asked me one time why i don't ever put chimneys on my cabin. i don't know it's just something,
i just go in the habit of not doing. well when you paint your cabin, shoot put a chimney in it if you want. maybe my little guy's got electric heat. livin' way out here in the woods. i'm gonna take a little paint thinner, i'm gonna take a little of that blue color that we had maybe, maybe right in here, happy little stick.
just a lil' ole guy that lives out here. we'll put a few little arms on him. something like 'at. and i think with that,shoot, we 'bout finished. i'ma take a little red,little paint thinner, let's sign this little rascal. i really hope you've enjoyedthis little winter scene. it'll teach ya a great dealof how to use the equipment, bring a lot of joy to your life.
send me a picture when youdo yours, i'd love to see it. from all of us here, i'd like to wish you happy painting and god bless my friend. (upbeat music)
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