- hi, welcome back. you know, in the last show, ihad one of my little friends here, little fox squirrel, and so many people havecalled and wrote in because i mentioned we have four of them and they wanted to see the rest of them. i've asked a friend tocome today to help me because it's a son of a guntrying to hang on to four. this is dana jester, andhe's one of our instructors
that travels all over thecountry and teaches people the joy of painting, and as you can see, he has an armful. what do you got going on there, dana? - oh, i don't know. your kids are going while here, boy. - here, look at here. you want a little bit to drink? - i think they're hungry.
- yeah, it's time for themto have a little nibble. look at this. aren't they the cutestlittle devils though? - i know they're excited, that's for sure. - well, this is a big dealfor them to be in front of the cameras and, they're a little nervous but they're still hungry. they still like to eat. here you go.
there, isn't that something? look at these little devils. they are absolutely precious and i, i thank dana very much forcoming and helping me today. here, turn loose, guy. okay. - [dana] i know theseguys aren't (mumbles). - let me get this one here. i got one in my arm here.
let's give this one a little bit. you want a little drink? there. isn't that something? there we go. they are so cute. they are just absolutely precious. and as i say, these arelittle fox squirrels and they're very young and there.
tell you what, let me set those downand let's get a painting started for today. all right. we'll just set him right over here. today, we have our standardold 18 by 24-inch canvas up here and we've coveredit with a nice, thin, even coat of the liquid white, and it's nice and wet and it's ready to go
so why don't we take off and maybe today we'll do ahappy little winter scene, and maybe we'll put a little color in it so it's not quite so cold. i'm going to take a littletouch of the indian yellow, just a very, very smallamount on the two-inch brush. very small amount, and let's come right up in here, and let's just put in a littletouch of the yellowish color,
something, maybe like so. maybe like so, and we'regoing to run all the colors across the screen for you so you know what we're doing here. almost forgot to tell you that, i got involved with the squirrels and son of a gun, almost forgot it there. now then, without cleaning the brush, i'm going to take a littletouch of yellow ochre,
just a little, don't need much. take that and we'll come right in here. i'm just using little criss-cross strokes. there, you can see it, see? just little x's. we'll just bring this right around like so there we are. okay, and we just, just blend this.
okay, and just blendit 'til you can't tell where one color stops and thenext color starts, all right? now, then maybe a littlecolor right up in here. once again, without cleaning the brush, i'm going to take a littletiny bit of the bright red, very little amount, andlet's go right up in here. and we just drop a little of that in. now then. sometimes winter scenes can be so cold
that they're almost unpleasant. i like to make winter scenesthat have a little bit of a bright color in themand it really makes them pretty and makes you feel good in here. let's take a little pthaloblue and alizarin crimson. i'll just mix these on the brush. proportionately though, muchmore crimson than the blue. the blue is many, many times stronger. crimson and pthalo blue,take a little touch of that.
and let's just, let's just put a little bitof that right in like so. still using the littlecriss-cross strokes. now, we just fill the sky up, just fill it up. now, you can use this lavendercolor against the yellow without it turning bright green because if you mix lavender with yellow, it just makes a pleasantbrown and that's okay.
we can live with that. we can live with that, but if you were to usepure blue and you touched the yellow (chuckles), as you know, we would have bright, bright green and we don't want that inthis particular painting. and we'll just wipe this down here. this is going to be a little winter scene. maybe we'll have some snow down here
and we'll just use thisas part of the shadows when we get finished. it's also a good place toclean the color off your brush. now then, speaking ofcleaning color off the brush, let's wash our old brush. shake off the excess. (chuckles) and then off you go. that's the most fun partof this whole technique.
i'm going to take a littlebit of the titanium white now, right on the little two-inch brush or the big two-inch brush, whichever, just a little color, that's all we need, and let's go right up in here. this is going to be our light source. let's make this quitebright and quite shiny. but a clean brush witha little white on it, titanium white.
use the titanium because it's firm. you don't want to use the liquid white. liquid white is just a basethat we put on the canvas so the color blends on the, right on the canvas. now then, we can beginblending this right together. just like that. and you can blend it toany degree of softness or you can leave it quite harsh.
it's up to you. it's totally up to you. painting is very individual. there now, very lightly, we can just begin blending this out 'til it gets as smooth as you want it. but isn't that a wild sky? it's very easy, and whenyou're doing this at home, i suggest that you stand backand look at your painting.
it's very difficult whenyou're very close to it to tell if your colorsare blended sufficiently. good. very effective and very soft little sky. wash your brush again. (laughs) i just like to wash the brush. i look for any excuse. tell you what, let's havea nice mountain ridge
up through here, and for that, i'll just keep using this lavender color. i'll put a little black in it, so we have black, alizarincrimson, a little bit of pthalo blue. just midnight black andalizarin crimson by itself will make a very nice lavender color. pull the paint out asflat as you can get it, cut across and get our tiny,little roll of paint right
there. okay, let's go up here. now, you gotta make yourfirst major decision in this painting. where does, where does your littleridge of mountains live? maybe ours lives right up here. wherever you want, and theonly thing that we're worried about at this point isthe top edge of this.
we could care less what'shappening anywhere else, just on the top here. really hope you enjoyedseeing all those little squirrels. they are so precious. and if you've been with me before, you know that i'm sort ofa fanatic for all of god's little creatures and... especially little squirrels and stuff.
i really like those. those are loner squirrels. i got those from thebird lady here in muncie, diana schaffer, but at home, and maybe i'llshow you before the series is over. i have three little graysquirrels that i'm raising, and they came from anotherbird lady who lives in orlando,
and she's allowing me toraise these other ones at home and, if you think that's not achore, you try taking care of three little babysquirrels at one time, it's like having three children. will certainly, certainly keep you busy. i'm just using a two-inch brush here, and my mother helps me withthe little squirrels sometimes and she gets a kick outof feeding them too.
they're a great deal of fun. and even if you don't raise animals or touch 'em or play with 'em, it's a great deal offun just to watch them. shoot, just putting some foodout in your yard or something, you can attract a multitudeof little creatures, squirrels and birds and et cetera, and, personally, i think they're just fantastic to watch.
and we need to take careof these little creatures because they're sort of, they're sort of the barometer to tell you how the ecology is doing and how we're takingcare of this old world. the animals disappear, guess who's next? enough of my ecology kick. i'm going to take a littletouch of the bright red and go right into some titanium white.
i want very little paint, orvery little red in this paint. just enough to give it a little flavor. then we get a tiny little roll of paint. very little paint right outon the edge of the blade. okay? i thought maybe today we'djust do a little ridge of mountains and all you do is just touch and just let it gently flow down. no pressure.
can't say that enough. absolutely no pressure. the more delicate the touch,the nicer this will look, and we'll just start workingsome of these little areas. i don't want this to looklike one of our big mountains that we normally do. i want it to look like a little ridge. i want to take a little black and white, little touch of that lavender into it,
just to make a shadow color and we can start here and there. we'll just start adding afew little shadows in here. midnight black, little white and littlebit of the lavender color that we used to make the base of the mountain here. that's really all we have. very light, very gentle.
don't want, we don't want much color up here. very gentle, there. this is where we test to seeif you have a delicate touch. when i was in british columbia, there's a lot of mountainridges that look like this. lot of 'em, and they're so striking. some of the most beautiful country. now maybe, over in here,
we got little, littledoers here and there, wherever you want. just make some decisions, drop 'em in. you may also find thatit's a little easier to get into some of theseplaces using the small knife. whichever is comfortable for you. that's the reason we designeda couple of different knives. just so you can, you can try it until you findthe one that works the best
for you. some people like the large knife only. some people like the small knife. it's really an individual thing. and here and there, maybethere's something little, might even be a little peakhere and there, a little bump. let your imagination take you wherever, wherever. big thing here is i don't want much paint.
we're going to blend most of this out. all we're looking forhere is just some little indications. and we just sort of vary it back and forth between the shadow and the highlight color and even sometimes to showsomething really deep, we'll take a little dark, make a deep shadow in there. this is just the base color,
a little bit of the base color and you can play it here and there. there, see? just, but not much of it. it's very strong and very quickly, it'll, it'll take over your whole world, so just a small, small amount. and you can play with thesefor hours if you want to.
you don't have to paint this fast at home. you don't, use your old vcr and record it and do it at your own leisure. hope you enjoyed seeing dana again. dana's been on quite a few of the shows. he's really an outstanding young artist. and he lives here in muncie, so a lot of times when i'm here filming,
he comes over and keepsme company in the studio and so one day we decidedto put him to work. enough of that sitting around, taking life easy. now then, let's blend this out a little. and when you're doing this, you don't have to be realcareful because we're going to blend the whole thing. i'm going to tap the bottombecause i want the bottom
to be very soft and very misty, very diffused and then very lightly, almost all the way to the top, begin blending. see? that's the reason we didn'thave to be very careful because you're going toblend it and soften it and that will bring it all together. mmm!
i like these littlepaintings that are very soft, but you could do this so it's very sharp. it's an individual thing. do it any way that you want. all we want to do is show you how to do it and give you a couple ideas. okay, maybe back in herewe'll have some little trees and stuff. tell you what, let's have some fun.
let's take a some van dyke brown, a little dark sienna, we'll just mix them together, and i want to take a littlewhite and throw it in there too just to lighten it up,maybe a little more. i'm looking for sort ofa medium brown color. whoo, i hit a little of that lavender too. that's all right. okay, let me wipe my knife.
'cause you know, we don't make mistakes. we have happy accidents and that's when you reallyexperience the joy of painting. all right, now then, load theold fan brush full of color, lot of color. lot of color. let's go up in here. now, maybe back here inour world, there lives some little distant trees andthey're back in here.
all you have to do is takethe fan brush and sort of tap it downward and beginthinking about basic shapes and where you want them to live and just begin tapping. that's really all there is to it. there they go. now, sometimes, let meshow you something here. sometimes i get letters and people say, "my background trees looklike fence posts," like that.
the only thing wrong rightthere is you don't have enough. if you just go back, if that happens, just add in a few more. these are a lot of treesthat are far, far away in the distance. far away in the distance. maybe they come over, shoot, maybe it goes up here.
anywhere you want it. anywhere that you want it. maybe right on up there. i don't know, wherever you want it. so i tell you, this issuch an individual thing. it's the reason we don't, we don't really want to have you just use patterns and trace and et cetera.
we really would like tosee people learn to be creative on their own. and this is the freest style ofpainting i have ever seen. maybe there's one here that you can see a little more detail. that easy 'cause it just lookslike you were to be there. now then, i want to createthe illusion of mist down at the base of these.
very firmly, using the top corner only of the two inch brush, i'm just tapping, but very firmly. you can probably hear howmuch we're tapping here. you see our new opening on the show? ain't that fantastic? that's the little painter man. the little painter man. and,
that was done by a fantasticengineer right here at the station where we film. he put all that togetherand designed it and figured out how to do it andhis name is jerry morton and i'd like to give himcredit for doing a super job. he put a lot of work into making that. i hope you like it. i'd love to hear from youand know what you think of it,
but we're going to callthat little character the little painter man, andmaybe we'll show him again sometime. now then, maybe we want to haveseveral layers in here, ♫ so we'll take that same color ♫ and i want to add a littlebit more of the van dyke brown to it. as you know, in a landscape,as things get closer
to you, they should get darker in value, so all you need to do is adda little more of the brown, so let's go back up in here and maybe, right here. right here, i know (whispers inaudibly). but see how that dark color stands out now against that misty area? if you didn't have that little misty area, we'd probably be in agony city right now
because it would just blendtogether and you would lose it. but because you havethat little misty area, then you're in businessand they'll separate. misty areas, i've said over and over, is your good friend. and painting, sometimessoftness or little misty areas do more good for you than anything else. tell you what?
tell you what, let's get crazy. maybe there's a nice tree. yup, there is now. lives right there. just use a corner of the fan brush. and there we go, back and forth. happy little evergreen lives right there. and he needs a friend. maybe this guy,
maybe a squirrel chewed offall his limbs when he was little, them littledevils do that sometimes, so we'll just put a few on him. so he's sort of naked. but you can see part ofthe trunk through there. and sometimes that's very nice. clean, dry brush and once again, once again, our little misty effect, and we'll just let it come right on out
and just blend off intonothing there at the end, and there. but you can create layerafter layer after layer of little foothills and little soft areas in between that gives your painting tremendous depth. tremendous depth, and of course, i know none of us areinterested in that happy buck, but if you're out selling your paintings,
this is what makes your painting special over everybody else's. just the fact that it hasall this depth and distance in it, and when somebodycomes along to buy a painting, they'll look at yours and hmm, guess who sells the painting? this pays great dividends. tell you what, all right. now, we said it's gonnahave snow down here.
let's put one more layer of foothills. shoot, i want to tell you, ilike those little foothills. i'm going to take that ol'big brush that i've got going here. i'll use a little lavender. this is just the alizarin crimson and a touch of pthalo blue. once again, proportionately, much more crimson than blue,
just tap. okay, let's go back up here. maybe these foothills live right here, and all we're doing right nowis putting in a base color. maybe we'll, these are getting close enough, maybe they'll get alittle highlight on them. what the heck? just make big decisions and drop 'em in,
let 'em go. there it goes, there it goes. wherever you think they should live. it's exactly where they should live. that's our base color. and that's really all it is. this could be put on, shoot, you could put this over your shoe, it doesn't matter,
doesn't matter. let's take another brush here. i have several of eachbrush going so i don't have to spend all my time washing brushes. i'm gonna dip it into atouch of the liquid white, just a touch, very small amount. that's right above a smidgen. little, teeny bit, and letme reach right down here,
be right back though. i won't go away. little bright red in there. (exhales) takes very little, very little. just tap. push. you can see that little ridge of paint. let's pull it out very flatso you can see it good.
see that little ridge? there's a ridge just likethat on the end of the brush and that's what we paint with. let's go up here. now then, we'll use justa corner of the brush and we go in here andwe can begin putting in some nice, little highlights on these. in my mind, these are getting closer now. they're close enoughthat you can begin seeing
all these little thingsthat are happening. now, the little touch of liquidwhite that i put in there was put in there only to thin this a little bit because as you know,one of our golden rules, a thin paint will stick to a thick paint, the paint that we use is very, very thick, very dry. it's much thicker thantraditional oil paints.
there, and then we canpaint layer after layer on top without just becoming a mud mixer. if all your paints arethe same consistency, it's just going to make mud. it's all that's going to happen and then you're goingto be unhappy with me. watch. here's a little trick. maybe, let's do this.
maybe right here, there's another little, another little plane, whole 'nother plane. just let them separate. and that little dark area in between is all you need to create the illusion of a little separation. it's all you need.
okay, now then, we said this was winter, so let's have some snow. we need some snow in here. just use a titanium white. we've got a little touchof that pinkish color left on the brush. touch and pull. decide, decide in your world where this is going tolive and drop it in.
and with a big brush, youcan do this very rapidly. it didn't take but a second. just let that blend right on back. but see the depth it creates? just because you left that in there. we need some big trees, you know me. (chuckles) i like them big trees. but now, in yours, if youdon't want a big tree, don't put it in.
i'm going to use some of thatlavender and some of that brown mixed together. just load it up on thisold two-inch brush. make some big decisions. where does our littletrees live in our world? i think they live right about here. there they go, and all we're doing here isjust putting in a little color so we'll have something fora highlight to stick to,
just a base color, that's all we're looking for. maybe a little something right in there. wherever, wherever. let's take, we'll go back to the old two-inchbrush that we were using, has a little bright red on it, a little of titanium white and let's go back in here
and just put the indicationof some nice little snow-covered things thatlive up here on this tree. it's just like if we wereputting green leaves up here. think about form and shape. don't just throw this on at random. it's most important thatit gives shape and form to your tree. most important. mm, in some parts of thecountry, when winter comes
and jack frost plays through the trees, you get all of these beautifulthings just hanging around. so, here's another one. maybe it lives right here. and it just goes righton out to about there. there, wherever. another one right there. and you put just as manyor as few as you want in your world.
we want to pull a littleof this out into the snow to create the illusion of a shadow and it shows another plane, just the fact that it moves there. a whole 'nother plane in your painting. but snow is one of theeasiest things to paint when you have a big old brush like this. take a little touch of the liquid white. now, we can put theindication here and there
of just a little trunk. wherever we want it. we just want to show some indications. just a few. then, we can take the knife and just scrape in some sticks and twigs. there and there, a little bush that lives right down like that. so it's not just a straight line
and pull that out too. let's have some fun over here. on the other side, we'llgo into a little brown. let me get a little paintthinner on the liner brush. and, maybe in our world,there lives shoooooom, this is your bravery test. maybe, there it is, a happy little tree, and maybe this one, maybe this one's naked out here.
there, yeah. let's give him some arms. i got a letter from a man one time, saying he didn't believe me, i'd even given the trees arms and legs and foots and names, but that's all right. in your world, if you wantthe trees to have foots, you can do that.
if you want them to have arms, if you want to give them names. okay, maybe, maybe there's a few little sticks and twigs, some baby trees growing around here. right down like so. and let's take a fan brush. take an old fan brush. we're about out of timefor today so i'll just
show you, take a little lavender color, a little bit more intothe reddish hue, there. a little alizarin crimson and pthalo blue, put a little hill right there, little touch of our white. grab it and let that just move right off into the snow. see how easy that is?
it's also an excellent wayto make little sand dunes if you're doing little seascapes. that easy. shoot, i think we abouthave a finished painting. try this. i think it's a very warm winter scene that you'll enjoy doing. from all of us here, i'd liketo wish you happy painting and god bless, my friend.
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